There is a special order to the list. This is a list of the best Olympic athletes and sports competitors in the modern history of the Summer and Winter Olympic Games (1896-present).

Mark Spitz (USA). Tied Spitz for most gold medals collected in the history of the Olympic Games. And he won 7 gold medals at the Olympics in 1972, also an all-time record

Nadia Comaneci (Romania). The Romanian gymnast won 5 gold medals and 9 total. Comanechi is essentially the definition of "Perfect 10". Olympics scoreboard was not even able to show a’10 ’and all that has changed after Nadia.

Semyonovna Larissa Latynina (USSR). Arguably the best athlete in the history of the Olympic Games. Latynina won a total of 18 medals including 9 golds in his Olympic career in gymnastics.

Nikolay Andrianov (USSR). Won 15 medals in his career.

Alexei Nemov (Russia). Nemov won 6 medals in Atlanta in 1996 and won 6 others in Sydney in 2000.

Takashi Ono (Japan). Ono won a total of 13 medals. He won his first Olympic Games in 1952 and won a team gold at the Olympic Games in 1964.

Edoardo Mangiarotti (Italy). A champion of the world of fencing for decades. Mangiarotti won a total of 13 Olympic medals in her life.

Boris Shakhlin (Soviet Union). Between 1956 and 1964 Shakhlin won 13 Olympic medals in gymnastics. His case was the best horse pommelled.

Paavo Nurmi (Finland). Of Finland Paavo Nurni won a total of 9 Olympic gold medals as a runner in 1920.

Kato Sawa (Japan). Competed in gymnastics events in 1968, 1972 and 1976 Olympics winning a total of 12 medals, 8 of them gold.

Ray Ewry (USA). The best and most memorable since the first modern Olympic Games athlete. Ewry won 8 gold medals around the turn of the century. He won 2 more, but they were in 1906 ’Intermediate’ games, which are not official.

Matthew Biondi (USA). One of the U.S. ’s best Olympic athletes ever. Biondi won 11 medals total. The first coming in 1984 and their last Olympic medal in 1992. It was his first summer in 1998 at the Olympic Games winning 5 gold medals.

Carl Lewis (USA). The website has its own striking. Enough.

Victor Chukarin (Soviet Union). Won 11 medals in total after the competition both 1952 and 1956 Olympics. Seven of the Chukarin were gold medals for gymnastics.

Vera Caslavska (Czechoslovokia). A sensational gymnast (Vera won 11 medals in 1964 and 1968) and a remarkable life story (those were difficult times in Czechoslovokia).

Kristin Otto (Germany). He won 6 gold medals in swimming at the Olympic Games in 1988 – which was a record for women.

Michael Phelps (United States). In the 2004 Olympics, Michael Phelps won 8 medals in swimming, including 6 gold medals.

Oscar Swahn (Sweden). He won a medal at the Olympics in 1920 at age 72. The oldest athlete ever to win a medal in the Olympics.

Jesse Owens. American, and African-American Jesse Owens went to the 1936 Olympics held in Hitler’s Germany. And Owens won, then a record 4 gold medals in track and field.

Torvill and Dean (United Kingdom). Brittany’s famous "Torvill and Dean (Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean) won the pairs ice dancing competition. To separate between performers in the history of the pairs figure skating.

Edwin Moses (USA). Moses was one of the best athletes in the history of the 400 meters hurdles in and out of Olympic competition. In 1976, he won the event going. He won over 100 consecutive events leading up to the next Olympic event in 1984. And, despite recovering from an injury, won the race at home in front of the crowd.

Greg Louganis (USA). Louganis won his first Olympic medal in 1976 at age 16. But he had to wait until 1984 to return to the Olympics due to U.S. to boycott the Moscow Games in 1980. He won two golds in 1984 and two more in 1988. His victory in 1988 is remembered because it was an accident in which Louganis hit the board in the preliminary competition. The United States has participated in the 1980 Olympics, Louganis undoubtedly have won more medals.

Olga Korbut (USSR). Voted Female Athlete of the Year in 1972 by the AP. He was very popular throughout the world for its wide, big, bright smile. She won 3 gold medals and one silver medal at the Olympic Games in Munich.

Alberto Tomba (Italy). Tomba is the best downhill skier in the history of Italy. He won medals in 1988 and 1994.

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