The medal holders in Olympic Games are the great athletes who proved their excellence and skill in their respective field and end up winning the prize. We at Ancient Olympic Games take the initiative to make a list of the great many athletes who are the pride of their respective countries.
The Olympic Games have always shown some dramatic feats. In the 1896 Olympics, the United States showed its triumph as the 10-man squad won nine out of the 12 events. In 1912 Jim Thorpe, a Native American, became the only man to win both the decathlon and the pentathlon in the same year.
In 1936 Berlin Olympics, Jesse Owens, a black American, won four gold medals in the game of track and field. The first woman who won the three individual gold medals was Fanny Blankers-Koen of The Netherlands.
At the 1972 Munich Olympics, the United States take home seven gold medals by the swimmer Mark Spitz. The 1976 Games in Montreal was also in favor of the United States Swimmers as John Naber of the United States and Kornelia Ender of East Germany won four gold medals each.
The unsurpassed individual gold medal winner was the American track athlete Ray C. Ewry, who marked his name by winning eight events in the 1900, 1904, and 1908 Games. In the 1984 Games the most gold medals went for one country — 83 for the United States.
In the Atlanta Games a record of 79 nations won medals and 53 of them gold. Carl Lewis was the only the third person to win the same individual event —long jump — four times and the fourth person to earn a ninth gold medal.
In 2004 the Games returned to Greece. Swimmer Michael Phelps won six gold medals and set a single-Games record with 8 medals. In the Beijing Olympic 2008, China ranks first with 100 medals (51 Gold, 21 Silver, and 28 Bronze), USA second and Russian Federation third with 110 medals (36 Gold, 38 Silver, 36 Bronze) and 72 medals (23 Gold, 21 Silver, 28 Bronze) respectively




