This is a list of Olympians that have won at least three gold medals in one event. It includes top-three placings in 1896 and 1900, before medals were awarded for top-three placings. Medals won in the 1906 Intercalated Games are not included. The Olympics listed for each athlete only include games when they won medals in the specified event.
Individual events
Notes
NC: Gold medals won in non-consecutive Olympic Games
Athletes who won three golds in different weight classes:
- Aleksandr Medved ( Soviet Union, freestyle wrestling) — light heavyweight 1964 (97 kg); heavyweight 1968 ( 97 kg) and 1972 ( 100 kg)
- Kakhi Kakhiashvili ( Unified Team/ Greece, weightlifting) — 1992 90 kg (fourth-heaviest, between 82.5 kg and 100 kg); 1996 99 kg (third-heaviest, between 91 kg and 108 kg); 2000 94 kg (third-heaviest, between 85 kg and 105 kg).
Athletes who forfeited golds after retesting of samples revealed drug violations:
- Artur Taymazov — ( Uzbekistan, freestyle wrestling 120 kg) — 2004, 2008 (forfeited 2017), and 2012 (forfeited 2019)
Team events
Team events, consecutive titles
Team events, consecutive, identical team
See also
- List of multiple Olympic gold medalists
- List of multiple Olympic gold medalists at a single Games
- List of multiple Olympic medalists in one event
- List of medal sweeps in Olympic athletics
- List of multiple Paralympic gold medalists
- All-time Olympic Games medal table
Notes
References
External links
- "Winners". International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 2007-04-03.
- "databaseOlympics.com". databaseSports.com. Archived from the original on 2007-03-18. Retrieved 2007-03-20.
- "Individual Medalists by Event". allcompetitions.com. Retrieved 2016-09-10.
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