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Leading Medal Winners

Number of individual medals won on the left; gold, silver and bronze breakdown to the right.

Men

No SportG-S-B
4Sixten Jernberg, SWEX-country1-2-1
3Toni Sailer, AUTAlpine3-0-0
3Veikko Hakulinen, FINX-country1-2-0
3Pavel Kolchin, USSRX-country1-0-2
2Yevgeny Grishin, USSRSp. Skate2-0-0
2Sigvard Ericsson, SWESp. Skate1-1-0
2Fedor Terentyev, USSRX-country1-0-1
2Renzo Alvera, ITABobsled0-2-0
2Eugenio Monti, ITABobsled0-2-0
2Andreas Molterer, AUTAlpine0-1-1
2Oleg Goncharenko, USSRSp. Skate0-0-2

Women

No SportG-S-B
2Lyubov Kozyreva, USSRX-country1-1-0
2Radya Eroshina, USSRX-country0-2-0
2Sonja Edstrom, SWEX-country0-0-2

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