List of athletes with the most appearances at Olympic Games

A small fraction of the world's population ever competes at the Olympic Games; an even smaller fraction ever competes in multiple Games. 515 athletes (127 women, 388 men) have participated in at least five Olympics from Athens 1896 to Pyeongchang 2018, but excluding the 1906 Intercalated Games. Just over a hundred of these have gone on to make at least a sixth Olympic appearance.

See also: List of multiple Olympic medalists and Lists of Olympic medalists

Canadian Ian Millar in a 2007 picture. At London 2012 he participated in a record 10th Olympics

Multiple appearances

Several athletes would have made more appearances at the Olympics but for reasons out of their control, such as World Wars (no Olympics were held in 1916, 1940 or 1944), politically motivated boycotts, financial difficulties, or ill-timed injuries.

Canadian equestrian athlete Ian Millar has competed at ten Olympic games.[1] Austrian sailor Hubert Raudaschl and Latvian shooter Afanasijs Kuzmins (representing Soviet Union until 1988) have each made nine Olympic appearances.

Well over half of six-time Olympians belong to the shooting, equestrian, sailing and fencing disciplines, which are known for allowing athletes more longevity at the elite level. Athletics and cross-country skiing also provide a large number of athletes who have competed at five Olympics.

Number of athletes who have appeared at multiple Olympics from 1896 to 2016 inclusive

	Exact number of Olympic appearances							Minimum number of Olympic appearances
	5	6	7	8	9	10		5	6	7	8	9	10
Men	293	74	13	5	2	1		388	95	21	8	3	1
Women	91	26	7	3	0	0		127	36	10	2	0	0
Total	384	100	21	7	2	1		515	131	31	10	3	1
This table shows the number of athletes who have appeared at exactly (or at least) n Olympic Games between 1896 and 2016, as n varies from 5 to 10. For example, 13 men have appeared at exactly seven Olympics while 21 men have appeared in at least seven Olympics. Appearances at the 1906 Intercalated Games are not included. Winter and Summer Olympics are counted as 'different' Olympics even if they occurred in the same year. While these numbers are believed to be correct, it is possible that one or two athletes have been missed, particularly with five-time Olympians.

Approximately a quarter of long-competing athletes are female. Italian canoeist Josefa Idem became the first woman to take part in eight Olympics, eventually reaching the final of the K1-500m event at the age of 48.[2] Before her, the closest a female athlete had come to competing at eight Olympics was 0.028 seconds, which was the time by which Jamaican-Slovenian sprinter Merlene Ottey had failed to meet the qualification time required for appearance at the 2008 Summer Olympics, at age 48.

Four six-time Olympians here have participated in Olympic Games over a period of 40 years: Bahamian sailor Durward Knowles (8 Olympics), Danish sailor Paul Elvstrøm (8), Danish fencer Ivan Osiier (7), and Norwegian sailor Magnus Konow (6). Note should also be made of Japanese equestrian Hiroshi Hoketsu, whose first and third Olympic appearances in 1964 and 2012 were 48 years apart. Seven-time Olympian Oksana Chusovitina competed in artistic gymnastics at every Olympics from 1992-2016. She continues to compete in her early 40s in a sport where few competitors continue past their mid-20s or compete at two or three Olympics.

Two five-time Olympians competed under four different flags at the Olympics, one of whom never actually changed nationality. Both shooter Jasna Šekarić (6 Olympics) and table tennis player Ilija Lupulesku (5) competed for Yugoslavia at the 1988 Olympics. In 1992, since Yugoslavia was under UN sanctions, they (and fifty other Serbians, Montenegrins and Macedonians) competed as Independent Olympic Participants before competing at the next Olympics under the flag of Serbia and Montenegro. Lupulesku became an American citizen and competed for the USA in 2004, while Šekarić finally competed for Serbia in 2008.

Thirteen five-time Olympians have won at least eight medals: American swimmer Michael Phelps (28), Norwegian biathlete Ole Einar Bjørndalen (13), Italian fencer Edoardo Mangiarotti (13), German kayaker Birgit Fischer (12), American swimmer Dara Torres (12), Hungarian fencer Aladár Gerevich (10), Finnish gymnast Heikki Savolainen (9), Jamaican-Slovenian sprinter Merlene Ottey (9), German speed skater Claudia Pechstein (9), Romanian rower Elisabeta Oleniuc (8), German equestrian Reiner Klimke (8), Italian fencer Giovanna Trillini (8), Dutch equestrian Anky van Grunsven (8), and Russian diver Dmitri Sautin (8).

About thirty athletes who have competed in at least five Olympics participated in two sports, with nearly half of them competing at both the Winter and Summer Olympics. The most common cross-over sports are biathlon/cross-country skiing (six athletes competed in both), athletics/bobsleigh (five competitors), and cycling/speed skating (five competitors).

Married couples among five-time Olympians include biathletes Ole Einar Bjørndalen (Norway) and Nathalie Santer-Bjørndalen (Italy/Belgium), Lithuanian pairs figure skaters Margarita Drobiazko and Povilas Vanagas, Finnish cross-country skiers Harri Kirvesniemi and Marja-Liisa Kirvesniemi-Hämäläinen, lugers Susi Erdmann (Germany) and Gerhard Plankensteiner (Italy).

Familial relationships among five-time Olympians include Belgian shooters François Lafortune Sr and Jr (father-son; with their brothers/uncles, they have seventeen Olympic appearances between them), Italian equestrians Piero and Raimondo d'Inzeo (brothers), British canoeists Andrew and Stephen Train (brothers), Greek shooters Alexandros and Ioannis Theofilakis (brothers), Italian cross-country skiers Sabina and Fulvio Valbusa (sister-brother), Brazilian equestrians Nelson and Rodrigo Pessoa (father-son), Austrian lugers Markus and Tobias Schiegl (cousins). A more tenuous relationship is that of Argentine sailors Jorge Salas Chávez and Roberto Sieburger; Chávez's cousin Jorge del Río Salas (4 Olympics) married Sieburger's cousin Marylin Sieburger. (The extended Sieburger-Salas clan includes seven Argentinian sailors with twenty Olympic appearances.)

List of athletes with at least six Olympic appearances

Athletes in bold are believed to be still active i.e. have yet to announce their retirement. Female athletes are displayed with a pink background. Sorting is by number of appearances, date of last appearance, date of birth.

App.	Athlete	Nation	Birth/Death	Games	Period (age of first/last)	Sport				Tot.
10	Ian Millar	Canada	1947	1972/1976, 1984/2012	40 years (25/65)	Equestrian	0	1	0	1
9	Hubert Raudaschl	Austria	1942	1964/1996	32 years (22/54)	Sailing	0	2	0	2
	Afanasijs Kuzmins	Soviet Union (3) and  Latvia (6)	1947	1976/1980, 1988/2012	36 years (29/65)	Shooting	1	0	1	2
8	Piero d'Inzeo	Italy	1923-2014	1948/1976	28 years (25/53)	Equestrian	0	2	4	6
	Raimondo d'Inzeo	Italy	1925-2013	1948/1976	28 years (23/51)	Equestrian	1	2	3	6
	Durward Knowles	Great Britain (1) and  Bahamas (7)	1917-2018	1948/1972, 1988	40 years (31/71)	Sailing	1	0	1	2
	Paul Elvstrøm	Denmark	1928-2016	1948/1960, 1968/1972 and 1984/1988	40 years (20/60)	Sailing	4	0	0	4
	Rajmond Debevec	Yugoslavia (2) and  Slovenia (6)	1963	1984/2012	28 years (21/49)	Shooting	1	0	2	3
	Josefa Idem Guerrini	West Germany (2) and  Italy (6)	1964	1984/2012	28 years (20/48)	Canoeing	1	2	2	5
	Lesley Thompson	Canada	1959	1984/2000, 2008/2016	32 years (24/56)	Rowing	1	3	1	5
	Francisco Boza	Peru	1964	1980/2004, 2016	36 years (15/51)	Shooting	0	1	0	1
	Nino Salukvadze	Soviet Union (1),  Unified Team (1) and  Georgia (6)	1969	1988/2016	28 years (19/47)	Shooting	1	1	1	3
	Noriaki Kasai	Japan	1972	1992/2018	26 years (19/45)	Ski jumping	0	2	1	3
7	Ivan Osiier	Denmark	1888/1965	1908/1912, 1920/1932 and 1948	40 years (20/60)	Fencing	0	1	0	1
	François Lafortune, Jr	Belgium	1932	1952/1976	24 years (20/44)	Shooting	0	0	0	0
	Kerstin Palm	Sweden	1946	1964/1988	24 years (18/42)	Fencing	0	0	0	0
	John Michael Plumb	USA	1940	1964/1976, 1984/1992	28 years (24/52)	Equestrian	2	4	0	6
	Ragnar Skanåker	Sweden	1934	1972/1996	24 years (38/62)	Shooting	1	2	1	4
	Seiko Hashimoto	Japan	1964	1984/1994 (W), 1988/1996 (S)[3]	12 years (20/32)	Speed skating (4) and cycling (3)	0	0	1	1
	Merlene Ottey	Jamaica (6) and  Slovenia (1)	1960	1980/2004	24 years (20/44)	Athletics	0	3	6	9
	Jeannie Longo	France	1958	1984/2008	24 years (26/50)	Cycling	1	2	1	4
	Andrew Hoy	Australia	1959	1984/2004, 2012	28 years (25/53)	Equestrian	3	0	1	4
	Jos Lansink	Netherlands (4) and  Belgium (3)	1961	1988/2012	24 years (27/51)	Equestrian	1	0	0	1
	Ralf Schumann	East Germany (1) and Germany (6)	1962	1988/2012	24 years (26/50)	Shooting	3	2	0	5
	Jasna Šekarić	Yugoslavia (1),  Independent Olympic Participants (1),  Serbia and Montenegro (3) and  Serbia (2)	1965	1988/2012	24 years (22/46)	Shooting	1	3	1	5
	Jörgen Persson	Sweden	1966	1988/2012	24 years (22/46)	Table tennis	0	0	0	0
	Anky van Grunsven	Netherlands	1968	1988/2012	24 years (20/44)	Equestrian	3	5	1	9
	Zoran Primorac	Yugoslavia (1) and  Croatia (6)	1969	1988/2012	24 years (19/43)	Table tennis	0	1	0	1
	Jean-Michel Saive	Belgium	1969	1988/2012	24 years (18/42)	Table tennis	0	0	0	0
	Albert Demtschenko	Unified Team (1) and Russia (6)	1971	1992/2014	22 years (19/41)	Luge	0	3	0	3
	Mark Todd	New Zealand	1956	1984/1992, 2000 and 2008/2016	32 years (28/60)	Equestrian	2	1	3	6
	Nick Skelton	United Kingdom	1957	1988/1996, 2004/2016	28 years (30/58)	Equestrian	2	0	0	2
	Ludger Beerbaum	West Germany (1) and Germany (6)	1963	1988/2008, 2016	28 years (25/52)	Equestrian	4	0	1	5
	Tinne Vilhelmson-Silfvén	Sweden	1967	1992/2016	24 years (25/49)	Equestrian	0	0	0	0
	Jesús Ángel García Bragado	Spain	1969	1992/2016	24 years (22/46)	Athletics	0	0	0	0
	Giovanni Pellielo	Italy	1970	1992/2016	24 years (22/46)	Shooting	0	3	1	4
	João Rodrigues	Portugal	1971	1992/2016	24 years (20/44)	Sailing	0	0	0	0
	Ekaterina Karsten	Unified Team (1) and  Belarus (6)	1972	1992/2016	24 years (20/44)	Rowing	2	1	2	5
	Leander Paes	India	1973	1992/2016	24 years (19/43)	Tennis	0	0	1	1
	Segun Toriola	Nigeria	1974	1992/2016	24 years (17/41)	Table tennis	0	0	0	0
	Oksana Chusovitina	Unified Team (1),  Uzbekistan (4), and Germany (2)	1975	1992/2016	24 years (17/41)	Gymnastics	1	1	0	2
	Claudia Pechstein	Germany	1972	1992/2006, 2014-2018	26 years (19/45)	Speed skating	5	2	2	9
	Sergei Dolidovich	Belarus	1973	1994/2018	24 years (20/44)	Cross-country skiing	0	0	0	0
	Janne Ahonen	Finland	1977	1994/2018	24 years (16/40)	Ski jumping	0	2	0	2
6	Magnus Konow	Norway	1887/1972	1908/1912, 1920, 1928, 1936 and 1948	40 years (21/61)	Sailing	2	1	0	3
	Norman Armitage	USA	1907/1972	1928/1936, 1948/1956	28 years (21/49)	Fencing	0	0	1	1
	Aladár Gerevich	Hungary	1910/1991	1932/1936, 1948/1960	28 years (22/50)	Fencing	7	1	2	10
	Janice York Romary	USA	1927/2007	1948/1968	20 years (19/39)	Fencing	0	0	0	0
	Lia Manoliu	Romania	1932/1998	1952/1972	20 years (20/40)	Athletics	1	0	2	3
	Jerzy Pawłowski	Poland	1932/2005	1952/1972	20 years (20/40)	Fencing	1	3	1	5
	Hans Günter Winkler	Germany (3) and  West Germany (3)	1926/2018	1956/1976	20 years (20/40)	Equestrian	5	1	1	7
	William McMillan	USA	1929/2000	1952/1960-1976	20 years (27/47)	Shooting	1	0	0	1
	Adam Smelczyński	Poland	1930	1956/1976	20 years (26/45)	Shooting	0	1	0	1
	Bill Hoskyns	Great Britain	1931/2013	1956/1976	20 years (25/45)	Fencing	0	2	0	2
	Frank Chapot	USA	1932/2016	1956/1976	20 years (24/44)	Equestrian	0	2	0	2
	Carl-Erik Eriksson	Sweden	1930	1964/1984	20 years (34/54)	Bobsleigh	0	0	0	0
	Jim Elder	Canada	1934	1956/1960, 1968, 1972/1976 and 1984	28 years (22/50)	Equestrian	1	0	2	3
	Hans Fogh	Denmark (4) and Canada (2)	1938/2014	1960/1976, 1984	24 years (22/46)	Sailing	0	1	1	2
	Reiner Klimke	Germany (2) and  West Germany (4)	1936/1999	1960/1976, 1984/1988	28 years (24/52)	Equestrian	6	0	2	8
	Colin Coates	Australia	1946	1968/1988	20 years (18/38)	Speed skating	0	0	0	0
	John Primrose	Canada	1942	1968/1976, 1984/1992	24 years (26/50)	Shooting	0	0	0	0
	Jiří Pták	Czechoslovakia	1946	1968/1980, 1988/1992	24 years (22/46)	Rowing	0	0	0	0
	Christilot Hanson-Boylen	Canada	1947	1964/1976, 1984 and 1992	28 years (17/45)	Equestrian	0	0	0	0
	Alfred Eder	Austria	1953	1976/1994	18 years (23/41)	Biathlon	0	0	0	0
	Marja-Liisa Kirvesniemi-Hämäläinen	Finland	1955	1976/1994	18 years (21/39)	Cross-country skiing	3	0	4	7
	Hugo Simon	Austria	1942	1972/1976, 1984/1996	24 years (30/53)	Equestrian	0	1	0	1
	Luis Álvarez de Cervera	Spain	1947	1972/1976, 1984/1996	24 years (25/49)	Equestrian	0	0	0	0
	Eric Swinkels	Netherlands	1949	1972/1976, 1984/1996	24 years (23/47)	Shooting	0	1	0	1
	Anastasios Bountouris	Greece	1955	1976/1996	20 years (21/41)	Sailing	0	0	1	1
	Tessa Sanderson	Great Britain	1956	1976/1996	20 years (20/40)	Athletics	1	0	0	1
	John Foster, Sr	United States Virgin Islands	1938	1972/1976, 1984/1992 (S) and 1998 (W)[3]	20 years (34/54)	Sailing (5) and bobsleigh (1)	0	0	0	0
	Harri Kirvesniemi	Finland	1958	1980/1998	18 years (21/39)	Cross-country skiing	0	0	6	6
	Jochen Behle	West Germany (3) and Germany (3)	1960	1980/1998	18 years (19/37)	Cross-country skiing	0	0	0	0
	Christine Stückelberger	Switzerland	1947	1972/1976, 1984/1988 and 1996/2000	28 years (25/53)	Equestrian	1	2	1	4
	Jochen Schümann	East Germany (3) and Germany (3)	1954	1976/1980, 1988/2000	24 years (18/46)	Sailing	3	1	0	4
	Nonka Matova	Bulgaria	1954	1976/1980, 1988/2000	24 years (18/46)	Shooting	0	1	0	1
	Juan Giha, Jr.	Peru	1955	1980/2000	20 years (25/45)	Shooting	0	1	0	1
	Philippe Boccara	France (4) and USA (2)	1959	1980/2000	20 years (21/41)	Canoeing	0	0	1	1
	Angelo Mazzoni	Italy	1961	1980/2000	20 years (19/39)	Fencing	2	0	1	3
	Manuel Estiarte	Spain	1961	1980/2000	20 years (18/38)	Water polo	1	1	0	2
	Terry McHugh	Ireland	1963	1988/2000 (S), 1992 and 1998 (W)[3]	12 years (25/37)	Athletics (4) and bobsleigh (2)	0	0	0	0
	Michael Dixon	Great Britain	1962	1984/2002	18 years (22/40)	Cross-country skiing (1) and biathlon (5)	0	0	0	0
	Raimo Helminen	Finland	1964	1984/2002	18 years (19/37)	Ice hockey	0	1	2	3
	Markus Prock	Austria	1964	1984/2002	18 years (19/37)	Luge	0	2	1	4
	Emese Hunyady	Hungary (1) and  Austria (5)	1966	1984/2002	18 years (17/35)	Speed skating	1	1	1	3
	Harald Stenvaag	Norway	1953	1984/2004	20 years (31/51)	Shooting	0	1	1	2
	Robert Dover	USA	1956	1984/2004	20 years (28/48)	Equestrian	0	0	4	4
	Colin Beashel	Australia	1959	1984/2004	20 years (24/44)	Sailing	0	0	1	1
	Torben Grael	Brazil	1960	1984/2004	20 years (24/44)	Sailing	2	1	2	5
	Wang Yifu	China	1960	1984/2004	20 years (24/44)	Shooting	2	3	1	6
	Birgit Fischer	East Germany (2) and Germany (4)	1962	1980, 1988/2004	24 years (18/42)	Canoeing	8	4	0	12
	Sorin Babii	Romania	1963	1984/2004	20 years (20/40)	Shooting	1	0	1	2
	Elisabeta Oleniuc Lipă	Romania	1964	1984/2004	20 years (20/40)	Rowing	5	2	1	8
	Agathi Kassoumi	Greece	1966	1984/2004	20 years (18/38)	Shooting	0	0	0	0
	Anne Abernathy	United States Virgin Islands	1953	1988/2006	18 years (34/52)	Luge	0	0	0	0
	Georg Hackl	West Germany (1) and Germany (5)	1966	1988/2006	18 years (21/39)	Luge	3	2	0	5
	Sergei Tchepikov	Soviet Union (1),  Unified Team (1) and Russia (4)	1967	1988/2006	18 years (21/39)	Cross-country skiing (1) and biathlon (5)	2	3	1	6
	Gerda Weissensteiner	Italy	1969	1988/2006	18 years (19/37)	Luge (4) and bobsleigh (2)	1	0	1	2[4]
	Wilfried Huber	Italy	1970	1988/2006	18 years (17/35)	Luge	1	0	0	1
	Kateřina Neumannová	Czechoslovakia (1) and  Czech Republic (5)	1973	1996 (S), 1992/2006 (W)[3]	14 years (18/32)	Cross-country skiing (5) and cycling (1)	1	4	1	6
	Susan Nattrass	Canada	1950	1976, 1988/1992 and 2000/2008	32 years (25/57)	Shooting	0	0	0	0
	Kyra Kyrklund	Finland	1951	1980/1996, 2008	28 years (29/57)	Equestrian	0	0	0	0
	Ilario Di Buò	Italy	1956	1984/1992, 2000/2008	24 years (27/51)	Archery	0	2	0	2
	Juha Hirvi	Finland	1960	1988/2008	20 years (28/48)	Shooting	0	1	0	1
	Andrea Benelli	Italy	1960	1988/2008	20 years (28/48)	Shooting	1	0	1	2
	Tanyu Kiryakov	Bulgaria	1963	1988/2008	20 years (25/45)	Shooting	2	0	1	3
	Juan Esteban Curuchet	Argentina	1965	1984/1988, 1996/2008	24 years (19/43)	Cycling	1	0	0	1
	James Tomkins	Australia	1965	1988/2008	20 years (23/42)	Rowing	3	0	1	4
Fabienne Diato-Pasetti	Monaco	1965	1988/2008	20 years (22/42)	Shooting	0	0	0	0
Jüri Jaanson	Soviet Union (1) and  Estonia (5)	1965	1988/2008	20 years (22/42)	Rowing	0	2	0	2
Václav Chalupa	Czechoslovakia (2) and  Czech Republic (4)	1967	1988/2008	20 years (20/40)	Rowing	0	1	0	1
João N'Tyamba	Angola	1968	1988/2008	20 years (20/40)	Athletics	0	0	0	0
Maria Mutola	Mozambique	1972	1988/2008	20 years (15/35)	Athletics	1	0	1	2
Ilmārs Bricis	Latvia	1970	1992/2010	18 years (21/39)	Biathlon	0	0	0	0
Andrus Veerpalu	Estonia	1971	1992/2010	18 years (21/39)	Cross-country skiing	2	1	0	3
Marco Büchel	Liechtenstein	1971	1992/2010	18 years (20/38)	Alpine skiing	0	0	0	0
Anna Orlova	Latvia	1972	1992/2010	18 years (19/37)	Luge	0	0	0	0
Evgeniya Radanova	Bulgaria	1977	1994/2010 (W), 2004 (S)[3]	16 years (16/32)	Speed skating (5) and cycling (1)	0	2	1	3
Andrew Nicholson	New Zealand	1961	1984, 1992/1996 and 2004/2012	28 years (23/51)	Equestrian	0	1	2	3
Russell Mark	Australia	1964	1988/2000, 2008/2012	24 years (24/48)	Shooting	1	1	0	2
Štěpánka Hilgertová	Czechoslovakia (1) and  Czech Republic (5)	1968	1992/2012	20 years (24/44)	Canoeing	2	0	0	2
Sergey Martynov	Soviet Union (1) and  Belarus (5)	1968	1988, 1996/2012	24 years (20/42)	Shooting	1	0	2	3
Hugo Hoyama	Brazil	1969	1992/2012	20 years (23/43)	Table tennis	0	0	0	0
Mönkhbayar Dorjsurengiin	Mongolia (3) and  Germany (3)	1969	1992/2012	20 years (23/43)	Shooting	0	0	2	2
Natalia Valeeva	Unified Team (1),  Moldova (1) and  Italy (4)	1969	1992/2012	20 years (22/42)	Archery	0	0	2	2
Fredrik Lööf	Sweden	1969	1992/2012	20 years (22/42)	Sailing	1	0	2	3
Alessandra Sensini	Italy	1970	1992/2012	20 years (22/42)	Sailing	1	1	2	4
Dragutin Topić	Independent Olympic Participants (1),  Serbia and Montenegro (3) and  Serbia (2)	1971	1992/2012	20 years (21/41)	Athletics	0	0	0	0
Nicoleta Grădinaru-Grasu	Romania	1971	1992/2012	20 years (20/40)	Athletics	0	0	0	0
Alison Williamson	United Kingdom	1971	1992/2012	20 years (20/40)	Archery	0	0	1	1
Michael Diamond	Australia	1972	1992/2012	20 years (20/40)	Shooting	2	0	0	2
Mariya Grozdeva	Bulgaria	1972	1992/2012	20 years (20/40)	Shooting	2	0	3	5
Clara Hughes	Canada	1972	1996/2000, 2012 (S) and 2002/2010 (W)	16 years (22/38)	Cycling (3), Speed skating (3)	1	1	4	6
Rodrigo Pessoa	Brazil	1972	1992/2012	20 years (19/39)	Equestrian	1	0	2	3
Yordan Yovchev	Bulgaria	1973	1992/2012	20 years (19/39)	Gymnastics	0	1	3	4
Franck Dumoulin	France	1973	1992/2012	20 years (19/39)	Shooting	1	0	0	1
Lars Frölander	Sweden	1974	1992/2012	20 years (18/38)	Swimming	1	2	0	3
Yevgeniya Artamonova	Unified Team (1) and  Russia (5)	1975	1992/2012	20 years (17/37)	Volleyball	0	3	0	3
Derya Büyükuncu	Turkey	1976	1992/2012	20 years (16/36)	Swimming	0	0	0	0
Hubertus Von Hohenlohe	Mexico	1959	1984/2014	30 years (25/55)	Alpine skiing	0	0	0	0
Teemu Selänne	Finland	1970	1992, 1998/2014	22 years (21/43)	Ice Hockey	0	1	3	4
Armin Zöggeler	Italy	1974	1994/2014	20 years (20/40)	Luge	2	1	3	6
Ole Einar Bjørndalen	Norway	1974	1994/2014	20 years (20/40)	Biathlon	8	4	1	13
Todd Lodwick	United States	1976	1994/2014	20 years (17/37)	Nordic combined	0	1	0	1
Mario Stecher	Austria	1977	1994/2014	20 years (16/36)	Nordic combined	2	0	2	4
Lee Kyou-hyuk	South Korea	1978	1994/2014	20 years (15/35)	Speed skating	0	0	0	0
Hayley Wickenheiser	Canada	1978	1998/2014 (W), 2000 (S)[3]	16 years (19/35)	Ice Hockey(5) and Softball (1)	4	1	0	5
John Whitaker	United Kingdom	1955	1984, 1992/2000, 2008 and 2016	32 years (29/61)	Equestrian	0	1	0	1
Lalita Yauhleuskaya	Belarus (2) and  Australia (4)	1963	1996/2016	20 years (32/52)	Shooting	0	0	1	1
Emil Milev	Bulgaria (4) and  United States (2)	1968	1992/2004, 2012/2016	24 years (24/48)	Shooting	0	1	0	1
Karin Donckers	Belgium	1971	1992, 2000/2016	24 years (21/45)	Equestrian	0	0	0	0
Daniel Nestor	Canada	1972	1996/2016	20 years (23/43)	Tennis	1	0	0	1
Robert Scheidt	Brazil	1973	1996/2016	20 years (23/43)	Sailing	2	2	1	5
Sergey Tetyukhin	Russia	1975	1996/2016	20 years (20/40)	Volleyball	1	1	2	4
Aida Mohamed	Hungary	1976	1996/2016	20 years (20/40)	Fencing	0	0	0	0
Kim Collins	Saint Kitts and Nevis	1976	1996/2016	20 years (20/40)	Athletics	0	0	0	0
Vladimir Samsonov	Belarus	1976	1996/2016	20 years (20/40)	Table tennis	0	0	0	0
Áron Gádorfalvi	Hungary	1976	1996/2016	20 years (19/39)	Sailing	0	0	0	0
Therese Alshammar	Sweden	1977	1996/2016	20 years (18/38)	Swimming	0	2	1	3
Formiga	Brazil	1978	1996/2016	20 years (18/38)	Football	0	2	0	2
Kim Rhode	United States	1979	1996/2016	20 years (17/37)	Shooting	3	1	2	6
Taizo Sugitani	Japan	1976	1996/2016	20 years (20/40)	Equestrian	0	0	0	0
Phillip Dutton	Australia (3) and  United States (3)	1963	1996/2016	20 years (32/52)	Equestrian	2	0	1	3
Nasser Al-Attiyah	Qatar	1970	1996/2016	20 years (25/45)	Shooting	0	0	1	1
Olufunke Oshonaike	Nigeria (6)	1975	1996/2016	20 years (21/41)	Table Tennis	0	0	0	0
Simon Ammann	Switzerland	1981	1998/2018	20 years (16/36)	Ski jumping	4	0	0	4
Shiva Keshavan	India (5) and  Independent Olympic Participants (1)	1981	1998/2018	20 years (16/36)	Luge	0	0	0	0
Kim Hyun-ki	South Korea	1983	1998/2018	20 years (14/34)	Ski jumping	0	0	0	0
Hannu Manninen	Finland	1978	1994/2010, 2018	24 years (15/39)	Nordic combined	1	1	1	3
Jaqueline Mourão	Brazil	1975	2004/2008 (S), 2006-2018 (W)	14 years (28/42)	Cross-country (4), Biathlon (1) and Cycling (2)	0	0	0	0
Alla Tsuper	Ukraine (1) and  Belarus (5)	1979	1998/2018	20 years (18/38)	Freestyle skiing	1	0	0	1

Athletes with at least five Olympic appearances

521 athletes have competed in at least five Olympic Games (526 if the 1906 Games are counted) between 1896 and 2016 inclusive. They are listed here, grouped by discipline. The columns labelled 'N+' denote the number of athletes who have competed in at least N Olympics. The number of male and female athletes who have competed in at least five Olympics are also listed, in the columns labelled 'M' and 'F'.

Athletes who have competed in more than one sport are counted once per sport.

Discipline	5+	M	F	6+	7+	Athletes
Shooting	87	74	13	34	9	9: Afanasijs Kuzmins, 8: Rajmond Debevec, Nino Salukvadze, Francisco Boza, 7: François Lafortune, Jr, Ragnar Skanåker, Jasna Šekarić, Ralf Schumann, Giovanni Pellielo, 6: William McMillan, Adam Smelczyński, John Primrose, Eric Swinkels, Nonka Matova, Juan Giha, Jr., Agathi Kassoumi, Harald Stenvaag, Wang Yifu, Sorin Babii, Susan Nattrass, Juha Hirvi, Andrea Benelli, Tanyu Kiryakov, Fabienne Diato-Pasetti, Russell Mark, Sergey Martynov, Mariya Grozdeva, Michael Diamond, Mönkhbayar Dorjsurengiin, Franck Dumoulin, Kim Rhode, Emil Milev, Lalita Yauhleuskaya, Nasser Al-Attiyah, 5: Nedžad Fazlija, Hans Aasnæs, Alister Allan, Jean-Pierre Amat, Gilmour Boa, Gabriele Bühlmann, María del Pilar Fernández, Dencho Denev, Hennie Dompeling, Svetlana Demina, Thomas Farnik, Martin Gison, Jorge González, Durval Guimarães, Andrei Inešin, Harald Jensen, Mohamed Khorshed, Boris Kokorev, Szilárd Kun, Jacques Lafortune, Lee Eun-chul, Pentti Linnosvuo, Kanstantsin Lukashyk, Lars Jørgen Madsen, Goran Maksimović, Anton Manolov, John McNally, Stevan Pletikošić, Iulian Raicea, João Rebelo, Firmo Roberti, Ralph Rodríguez, Francisco Romero Arribas, Galliano Rossini, Nicolae Rotaru, Peter Rull, Sr., Ricardo Rusticucci, Juan Seguí, Péter Sidi, Karni Singh, Randhir Singh, Attila Solti, Alexandros Theophilakis, Ioannis Theofilakis, Guillermo Torres, Torsten Ullman, Eladio Vallduvi, Paul Van Asbroeck, Wolfram Waibel, Sr., Axel Wegner, Tao-Yan Wu, Józef Zapędzki, Abhinav Bindra
Equestrian	57	46	11	27	9	10: Ian Millar, 8: Piero d'Inzeo, Raimondo d'Inzeo, 7: Michael Plumb, Andrew Hoy, Jos Lansink, Mark Todd, Tinne Vilhelmson-Silfvén, Nick Skelton, 6: Hans Günter Winkler, Frank Chapot, Jim Elder, Reiner Klimke, Christilot Hanson-Boylen, Hugo Simon, Luis Álvarez, Christine Stückelberger, Robert Dover, Kyra Kyrklund, Rodrigo Pessoa, Ludger Beerbaum, Andrew Nicholson, Anky van Grunsven, Karin Donckers, John Whitaker, Taizo Sugitani, Phillip Dutton 5: Alessandro Argenton, David Bárcena Ríos, David Broome, Henrique Callado, Henri Chammartin, Bruce Davidson, Carlos D'Elia, Dominique d'Esmé, Peter Eriksson, Gustav Fischer, Markus Fuchs, Nils Haagensen, Pierre Jonquères d'Oriola, André Jousseaumé, Ivan Kalita, Bengt Ljungquist, Graziano Mancinelli, Álvaro de Miranda Neto, Nelson Pessoa, Bill Roycroft, Henri Saint Cyr, Ian Stark, Bill Steinkraus, Mary Thomson-King, Manuel Torres, Isabell Werth, Mary Hanna, Ingrid Klimke, Linda Algotsson
Athletics	53	31	22	10	2	7: Merlene Ottey, Jesús Ángel García Bragado, 6: Lia Manoliu, Terry McHugh, Maria Mutola, João N'Tyamba, Tessa Sanderson, Nicoleta Grădinaru-Grasu, Kim Collins, Dragutin Topić, 5: Amy Acuff, Toni Bernadó, Tim Berrett, Sabine Braun, Willie Davenport, Pauline Davis-Thompson, Giovanni De Benedictis, Gail Devers-Roberts, Jackie Edwards, Laverne Eve, Susana Feitor, Olga Fikotová, Glenroy Gilbert, Vladimir Golubnichy, Rob Heffernan, Max Houben, Bernard Lagat, John Ljunggren, Chris Maddocks, Paul Martin, Fiona May, Pietro Mennea, Mathias Ntawulikura, Alex Oakley, Mary Onyali-Omagbemi, Abdon Pamich, Jo Pavey, Jefferson Pérez, Fernanda Ribeiro, Sandie Richards, Carlos Sala, Martin Schützenauer, Janusz Sidło, Trine Solberg-Hattestad, Irena Szewińska-Kirszenstein, Igor Ter-Ovanesyan, Urs von Wartburg, Letitia Vriesde, Willye White, Irina Yatchenko, Jan Železný, Szymon Ziółkowski, Branko Zorko, Ellina Zvereva
Sailing	42	39	3	15	4	9: Hubert Raudaschl, 8: Paul Elvstrøm, Durward Knowles, 7: João Rodrigues, 6: Colin Beashel, Anastasios Bountouris, Hans Fogh, John Foster, Sr, Torben Grael, Magnus Konow, Fredrik Lööf, Alessandra Sensini, Robert Scheidt, Jochen Schümann, Áron Gádorfalvi, 5: Duarte Manuel Bello, William Berntsen, Reinaldo Conrad, José Luis Doreste, Carlos Espínola, Roland Gäbler, Tore Holm, Nikos Kaklamanakis, Barbara Kendall, Andreas Kosmatopoulos, Willi Kuhweide, Mateusz Kusznierewicz, Santiago Lange, Jacques Baptiste Lebrun, Ross MacDonald, Konstantin Melgunov, Mark Neeleman, Fernanda Oliveira, Tony Philp, Timir Pinegin, Jorge Alberto Salas Chávez, Fyodor Shutkov, Roberto Sieburger, Hans Spitzauer, Agostino Straulino, Peter Tallberg, David Wilkins
Fencing	35	26	9	9	2	7: Ivan Osiier, Kerstin Palm, 6: Norman Armitage, Aladár Gerevich, Janice Romary, Jerzy Pawłowski, Bill Hoskyns, Angelo Mazzoni, Aida Mohamed, 5: Albie Axelrod, Philippe Cattiau, Arie de Jong, Antonio García, Martin Holt, Ecaterina Iencic-Stahl, Géza Imre, Allan Jay, Jenő Kamuti, Pavel Kolobkov, Iván Kovács, Pál Kovács, Jacques Lefèvre, Bengt Ljungquist, Peter Macken, Edoardo Mangiarotti, Robert Montgomerie, Ellen Müller-Preis, Olga Orban-Szabo, Stanislav Pozdnyakov, Ildikó Újlaky-Rejtő, Giovanna Trillini, Joachim Wendt, Peter Westbrook, Ye Chong, Margherita Zalaffi, Tatiana Logunova
Cross-country skiing	36	24	12	10	1	7: Sergei Dolidovich, 6: Marja-Liisa Kirvesniemi-Hämäläinen, Harri Kirvesniemi, Jochen Behle, Andrus Veerpalu, Michael Dixon, Kateřina Neumannová, Sergei Tchepikov, Ole Einar Bjørndalen, Hannu Manninen, 5: Ivan Bátory, Stefania Belmondo, Marit Bjørgen, Oddvar Brå, Maurilio De Zolt, Manuela Di Centa, Aleksander Grajf, Juan Jesús Gutiérrez, Markus Hasler, Arturo Kinch, Jaak Mae, Oļegs Maļuhins, Torgny Mogren, Gabriella Paruzzi, Gianfranco Polvara, Alexey Prokurorov, Kikkan Randall, Riitta-Liisa Roponen, Raisa Smetanina, Kristina Šmigun-Vähi, Alois Stadlober, Athanassios Tsakiris, Sabina Valbusa, Fulvio Valbusa, Giorgio Vanzetta, Yelena Volodina-Antonova
Table tennis	25	15	10	7	4	7: Jörgen Persson, Zoran Primorac, Jean-Michel Saive, Segun Toriola, 6: Hugo Hoyama, Olufunke Oshonaike, Vladimir Samsonov, 5: Csilla Bátorfi, Timo Boll, Patrick Chila, Adrian Crișan, Bose Kaffo, Nanthana Komwong, Petr Korbel, Kalinikos Kreanga, Jian Fang Lay, Liu Jia, Ilija Lupulesku, Viktoria Pavlovich, Fabiola Ramos, Jörg Roßkopf, Elke Schall, Werner Schlager, Krisztina Tóth, Jan-Ove Waldner
Canoeing	25	16	9	4	1	8: Josefa Idem-Guerrini, 6: Philippe Boccara, Birgit Fischer, Štěpánka Hilgertová, 5: Agneta Andersson, Beniamino Bonomi, Grayson Bourne, Caroline Brunet, Natasa Dusev-Janics, Ian Ferguson, David Ford, Cristina Giai Pron, Dennis Green, Zoltán Kammerer, Aneta Konieczna, Michal Martikán, Anna Olsson, Ivan Patzaichin, Adrian Powell, Clint Robinson, Antonio Rossi, Michał Śliwiński, Andrew Train, Stephen Train, Erik Vlček
Rowing	24	16	8	7	2	8: Lesley Thompson, 7: Ekaterina Khodatovich-Karsten, 6: Václav Chalupa, Jüri Jaanson, Elisabeta Oleniuc Lipă, Jiří Pták, James Tomkins, 5: Jack Beresford, Kathrin Boron, Iztok Čop, Rumyana Dzhadzharova-Neykova, Rossano Galtarossa, Elena Georgescu-Nedelcu, Doina Ignat, Pertti Karppinen, Marek Kolbowicz, Adam Korol, Raffaello Leonardo, Yuriy Lorentsson, Aleksandr Lukyanov, Mike McKay, Constanţa Pipotă-Burcică, Steve Redgrave, Nico Rienks
Luge	21	15	6	9	1	7: Albert Demchenko, 6: Georg Hackl, Wilfried Huber, Anna Orlova, Markus Prock, Gerda Weissensteiner, Anne Abernathy, Armin Zöggeler, Shiva Keshavan, 5: Sergey Danilin, Susi Erdmann, Mark Grimmette, Oswald Haselrieder, Paul Hildgartner, Mária Jasenčáková, Gerhard Plankensteiner, Hansjörg Raffl, Mārtiņš Rubenis, Markus Schiegl, Tobias Schiegl, Natalya Yakuchenko
Biathlon	17	14	3	5	0	6: Alfred Eder, Michael Dixon, Ilmārs Bricis, Sergei Tchepikov, Ole Einar Bjørndalen, 5: Uschi Disl, Aleksander Grajf, Ludwig Gredler, Ricco Groß, Halvard Hanevold, Martina Jašicová-Halinárová, Oļegs Maļuhins, Janez Ožbolt, Wilfried Pallhuber, Nathalie Santer-Bjørndalen, Tomasz Sikora, Athanassios Tsakiris
Swimming	17	9	8	3	0	6: Therese Alshammar, Derya Büyükuncu,[5] Lars Frölander,[5] 5: Kirsty Coventry, Mark Foster, João Gonçalves Filho, Mette Jacobsen, Martina Moravcová, María Peláez, Michael Phelps, Spyros Gianniotis,[6] Carl Probert, Paul Radmilovic, Rogério Romero, Alison Sheppard, Dara Torres, Nina Zhivanevskaya
Bobsleigh	18	16	2	4	0	6: Carl-Erik Eriksson, John Foster, Sr, Terry McHugh, Gerda Weissensteiner, 5: Jorge Bonnet, Willie Davenport, Susi Erdmann, Glenroy Gilbert, Prince Albert II of Monaco, Max Houben, Jan Kobián, Dawid Kupczyk, Kevin Kuske, Pierre Lueders, Bruno Mingeon, Bogdan Musioł, Martin Schützenauer, Brian Shimer
Speed skating	16	8	8	4	1	7: Claudia Pechstein, 6: Colin Coates, Emese Hunyady, Evgeniya Radanova, 5: Shani Davis, Edel Therese Høiseth, Clara Hughes, Lee Kyou-hyuk, Christa Luding-Rothenburger, Tomomi Okazaki, Monika Pflug, Rintje Ritsma, Örjan Sandler, Roberto Sighel, Bart Veldkamp, Chris Witty
Cycling	15	8	7	5	2	7: Seiko Hashimoto, Jeannie Longo, 6: Juan Curuchet, Kateřina Neumannová, Evgeniya Radanova, 5: Roberta Bonanomi, Murilo Fischer, George Hincapie, Clara Hughes, Shane Kelly, Christa Luding-Rothenburger, Stuart O'Grady, Bruno Risi, Franz Stocher, Chris Witty
Water polo	14	14	0	1	0	6: Manuel Estiarte, 5: Georgios Afroudakis, Tony Azevedo, Tibor Benedek, Gianni De Magistris, Salvador Gómez, Dezső Gyarmati, Igor Hinić, Tamás Kásás, George Mavrotas, Paul Radmilovic, Jesús Rollán, Jordi Sans, Stefano Tempesti
Alpine skiing	13	11	2	2	0	6: Marco Büchel, Hubertus von Hohenlohe, 5: Kjetil André Aamodt, Paul Accola, Graham Bell, Martina Ertl-Renz, Kristian Ghedina, Hur Seung-Wook, Patrik Järbyn, Arturo Kinch, Lasse Kjus, Fredrik Nyberg, María José Rienda
Ice hockey	12	11	1	3	0	6: Raimo Helminen, Teemu Selänne, Hayley Wickenheiser, 5: Dieter Hegen, Udo Kiessling, Denis Perez, Petter Thoresen, Jere Lehtinen, Kimmo Timonen, Jaromír Jágr, Pavel Datsyuk, Ilya Kovalchuk
Archery	8	6	2	3	0	6: Ilario Di Buò, Natalia Valeeva, Alison Williamson, 5: Simon Fairweather, Giancarlo Ferrari, Butch Johnson, Tomi Poikolainen, Hiroshi Yamamoto
Wrestling	7	7	0	0	0	Cris Brown, Wilfried Dietrich, Khorloogiin Bayanmönkh, Czesław Kwieciński, George MacKenzie, Mario Tovar González, Ryszard Wolny
Volleyball	6	4	2	2	0	6: Yevgeniya Artamonova, Sergey Tetyukhin, 5: Fofão, Andrea Giani, Maurício Lima, Reinder Nummerdor, Danielle Scott-Arruda
Basketball	6	4	2	0	0	5: Teófilo Cruz, Teresa Edwards, Andrew Gaze, Adriana Moisés Pinto, Oscar Schmidt, Juan Carlos Navarro
Freestyle skiing	6	3	3	1	0	6: Alla Tsuper, 5: Janne Lahtela, Tae Satoya, Aleksei Grishin, Dmitri Dashinski, Lydia Lassila
Gymnastics	5	4	1	2	1	7: Oksana Chusovitina, 6: Yordan Yovchev, 5: Daniele Hypólito, Heikki Savolainen, Josy Stoffel
Tennis	5	3	2	2	1	7: Leander Paes, 6: Daniel Nestor, 5: Mark Knowles, Arantxa Sánchez Vicario, Venus Williams
Ski jumping	5	5	0	3	2	8: Noriaki Kasai, 7: Janne Ahonen, 6: Simon Ammann, Kim Hyun-ki, 5: Masahiko Harada
Judo	5	2	3	0	0	5: Jorge Bonnet, Driulys González, Mária Pekli, Ryoko Tamura-Tani, Robert Van de Walle
Nordic combined	5	5	0	3	0	6: Todd Lodwick, Mario Stecher, Hannu Manninen, 5: Felix Gottwald, Björn Kircheisen
Diving	5	3	2	0	0	5: Franco Cagnotto, Dmitry Sautin, Niki Stajković, Juliana Veloso, Tania Cagnotto
Figure skating	4	2	2	0	0	5: Margarita Drobiazko, Povilas Vanagas, Aljona Savchenko, Zhang Hao
Weightlifting	3	3	0	0	0	5: Imre Földi, Ingo Steinhöfel, Ronny Weller
Handball	2	1	1	0	0	5: Andrey Lavrov, Oh Seong-Ok
Badminton	2	2	0	0	0	5: Boonsak Ponsana, Robert Mateusiak
Football	1	0	1	1	0	6: Formiga
Taekwondo	1	1	0	0	0	5: Steven López
Softball	1	0	1	0	0	5: Hayley Wickenheiser
Snowboarding	1	0	1	0	0	5: Kelly Clark

Intercalated Games

The 1906 Intercalated Games are not considered 'official' Olympics, but medals were awarded.

The following athletes have appeared in at least six Olympics if 1906 is included.

Athlete	Nation	Born/Death	Games	Period (age of 1st/last)	Sport				Tot.
Alexandros Theofilakis	Greece	1877/?	1896, 1906/12, 1920/24	28 years (19/47)	Shooting	0	2	0	2
Ioannis Theofilakis	Greece	1879/?	1896, 1906/12, 1920/24	28 years (17/45)	Shooting	0	1	0	1
Adrianus de Jong	Netherlands	1882/1966	1906/12, 1920/28	22 years (23/45)	Fencing	0	0	5	5
Paul Radmilovic	Great Britain	1886/1968	1906/12, 1920/28	22 years (20/42)	Water polo, swimming	4	0	0	4

The following athletes have appeared in at least five Olympics if 1906 is included. Five athletes made five Olympic appearances including the 1906 Games.

Athlete	Nation	Born/Death	Games	Period (age of 1st/last)	Sport				Tot.
Ladislav Žemla-Rázný	Bohemia /  Czechoslovakia	1887–1955			Tennis	0	0	2	2
Willem van Blijenburgh	Netherlands	1881–1936			Fencing	0	0	3	3
Edgar Seligman	Great Britain	1867–1958			Fencing	0	3	0	3
Jetze Doorman	Netherlands	1881–1931			Fencing Pentathlon	0	0	4	4
Fernand de Montigny	Belgium	1885–1974			Fencing Field hockey	0	2	3	5

Dual sport and multi-sport Olympians

See also: Olimpians with medals in different disciplines

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Are so many the Olympians have competed in two or more sports. These athletes are listed below, with the number of times they competed in each sport. Sometimes they competed in two disciplines at the same Games; such instances are noted.

The most common combinations of disciplines are biathlon/cross-country skiing (six athletes competed in both; each sport is a winter sport), athletics/bobsleigh (seven competitors; summer and winter sports respectively), and cycling/speed skating (five athletes; summer and winter sports respectively).

Summer and Winter Olympians

• Hanna Mariën (Athletics 1, bobsleigh 1, 2 Olympics)
• Igor Boraska (rowing 3, bobsleigh 1, 4 Olympics)
• Jorge Bonnet (bobsleigh 3, judo 2, 5 Olympics),
• Jan Bos (cycling 1, speed skating 4, 5 Olympics),
• Anton Collin (cycling 2, cross country skiing 2, 2 Olympics),
• Willie Davenport (bobsleigh 1, athletics 4, 5 Olympics),
• Glenroy Gilbert (bobsleigh 1, athletics 4, 5 Olympics),
• Max Houben (bobsleigh 4, athletics 1, 5 Olympics),
• John Foster, Sr (bobsleigh 1, sailing 5, 6 Olympics),
• Clara Hughes (cycling 3, speed skating 3, 6 Olympics),
• Seiko Hashimoto (cycling 3, speed skating 4, 7 Olympics),
• Mateus Facho Inocêncio (athletics 1, bobsleigh 1, 2 Olympics),
• Lolo Jones (athletics 2, bobsleigh 1, 3 Olympics),
• Christa Luding-Rothenburger (cycling 1, speed skating 4, 5 Olympics),
• Terry McHugh (bobsleigh 2, athletics 4, 6 Olympics),
• Jaqueline Mourão (cycling 2, cross-country skiing 2, biathlon 1, 5 Olympics),
• Kateřina Neumannová (cycling 1, cross-country skiing 5, 6 Olympics),
• Jana Pittman (athletics 1, bobsleigh 1, 2 Olympics),
• Roberts Plūme (cycling 3, cross-country skiing 2, 3 Olympics),
• Evgeniya Radanova (cycling 1, speed skating 4, 5 Olympics),
• Martin Schützenauer (bobsleigh 4, athletics 1, 5 Olympics),
• Georgia Simmerling (alpine skiing 1, ski-cross 1, cycling 1, 3 Olympics),
• Claudinei da Silva (athletics 2, bobsleigh 1, 3 Olympics),
• Pita Taufatofua (taekwondo 1, cross-country skiing 1, 2 Olympics),
• Chris Witty (cycling 1, speed skating 4, 5 Olympics),
• Hayley Wickenheiser (ice hockey 5, softball 1, 6 Olympics),
• Lauryn Williams (athletics 3, bobsleigh 1, 4 Olympics),
• Antonella Bellutti (cycling 2, bobsleigh 1, 3 Olympics),

Summer Olympians

Of the athletes who participated in two or more Summer Olympics in two different sports, 29 are Swedish and 26 of them participated in the home Olympics in Stockholm 1912.

Among these athletes, only one competed in two different sports and for two different countries, the Italian-Polish Katarzyna Juszczak. Only two female athletes, the British Rebecca Romero and the East German Roswitha Krause won medals in two different sports.[7] Among men the American Frank Kugler at St. Louis 1904 won a medal in three different sports.[7] The American Sheila Taormina was the only woman to competed in three different sports.[7] The American Tim Shaw is one of four athletes who won medals in swimming and water polo.

  Men that won medals in different sports

  Women that won medals in different sports

Athlete	Country	Sports	First	Last	Tot.
Robert Andersson	Sweden	diving 2, swimming 3, water polo 3	1908	1920	3
Gösta Åsbrink	Sweden	gymnastics 1, modern pentathlon 1	1908	1912	2
David Bárcena Ríos	Mexico	equestrian 3, modern pentathlon 2	1964	1980	5
Gérard Blitz	Belgium	swimming 4, water polo 3	1920	1936	4
Eric Carlberg	Sweden	fencing 2, modern pentathlon 1, shooting 3	1908	1924	3
Carlota Castrejana	Spain	basketball 1, athletics 4	1992	2008	4
Gustaf Dyrssen	Sweden	modern pentathlon 1, fencing 3	1920	1936	4
Edwin Flack	Australia	tennis 1, athletics 1	1896	1896	1
João Gonçalves Filho	Brazil	swimming 2, water polo 3	1952	1968	5
Conn Findlay	United States	rowing 1, sailing 1	1956	1976	4
Leo Goodwin	United States	swimming 2, water polo 1	1904	1908	2
Alfréd Hajós	Hungary	swimming 1, art competitions 1	1896	1928	3
Louis Handley	United States	swimming 1, water polo 1	1904	1904	1
Pontus Hanson	Sweden	swimming 1, water polo 3	1908	1920	3
Carl Hårleman	Sweden	athletics 1, gymnastics 1	1908	1912	2
Otto Herschmann	Austria	swimming 1, fencing 1	1896	1912	2
Fritz Hofmann	German Empire	athletics 1, gymnastics 1	1896	1896	1
John Jarvis	United Kingdom	swimming 2, water polo 1	1900	1908	2
Viggo Jensen	Denmark	athletics 1, gymnastics 1, shooting 2, weightlifting 1[8]	1896	1900	2
Greta Johansson	Sweden	diving 1, swimming 1	1912	1912	1
Hjalmar Johansson	Sweden	diving 2, swimming 1, athletics 1	1908	1912	2
Harald Julin	Sweden	swimming 2, water polo 3	1908	1920	3
Katarzyna Juszczak	Poland +  Italy	judo 1, wrestling 1	1992	2004	2
Karch Kiraly	United States	volleyball 2, beach volley 1	1988	1996	3
Morris Kirksey	United States	rugby 1, athletics 1	1920	1920	1
Roswitha Krause	East Germany	swimming 1, handball 2	1968	1980	3
Frank Kugler	United States	tug of war 1, weightlifting 1 , wrestling 1	1904	1904	1
Torsten Kumfeldt	Sweden	swimming 1, water polo 3	1908	1920	3
Georg de Laval	Sweden	modern pentathlon 1, shooting 1	1912	1912	1
Gustaf Lewenhaupt	Sweden	equestrian 1, modern pentathlon 1	1912	1912	1
Bengt Ljungquist	Sweden	equestrian 1, fencing 4	1936	1964	5
Peter Macken	Australia	fencing 1, modern pentathlon 5	1960	1976	5
Veli Nieminen	Finland	gymnastics 1, shooting 1	1908	1924	3
August Nilsson	Sweden	athletics 1, tug of war 1	1900	1900	1
Daniel Norling	Sweden	equestrian 1, gymnastics 2	1908	1920	3
Wallace O'Connor	United Kingdom	swimming 1, water polo 4	1924	1936	4
Gösta Olson	Sweden	fencing 1, gymnastics 1	1908	1908	1
Nova Peris	Australia	field hockey 1, athletics 1	1996	2000	2
Erich Rademacher	Germany	swimming 1, water polo 2	1928	1932	2
Paul Radmilovic	United Kingdom	swimming 2, water polo 5	1908	1928	5
Aileen Riggin	United States	diving 1, swimming 1	1920	1924	2
Rebecca Romero	United Kingdom	cycling 1, rowing 1	2004	2008	2
Joe Ruddy	United States	swimming 1, water polo 1	1904	1904	1
Axel Runström	Sweden	diving 2, water polo 1	1908	1912	2
Carl Schuhmann	German Empire	athletics 1, gymnastics 1, weightlifting 1, wrestling 1[9]	1896	1896	1
Tim Shaw	United States	swimming 1, water polo 1	1976	1984	2
Gustaf Söderström	Sweden	athletics 1, tug of war 1	1900	1900	1
Karl Staaf	Sweden	athletics 1, tug of war 1	1900	1900	1
Sheila Taormina	United States	swimming 1, triathlon 2, modern pentathlon 1	1996	2008	4
Sven Thofelt	Sweden	fencing 3, modern pentathlon 3	1928	1948	4
Magnus Wegelius	Finland	gymnastics 1, shooting 1	1908	1924	3
Johnny Weissmuller	United States	swimming 1, water polo 1	1924	1928	2
Gunnar Wennerström	Sweden	swimming 1, water polo 1	1908	1908	1
Walter W. Winans	United States	shooting 1, art competitions 1	1908	1912	2

Winter Olympians

• Samir Azzimani (alpine skiing 1, cross-country skiing 1, 2 Olympics),
• Ole Einar Bjørndalen (biathlon 6, cross-country skiing 1, 6 Olympics),
• Mike Dixon (biathlon 5, cross-country skiing 1, 6 Olympics),
• Susi Erdmann (bobsleigh 3, luge 2, 5 Olympics),
• Taylor Fletcher (Nordic combined 3, ski jumping 1, 3 Olympics),
• Johan Grøttumsbråten (cross-country skiing 3, Nordic combined 3, 3 Olympics),
• Oddbjørn Hagen (cross-country skiing 1, Nordic combined 1, 1 Olympics),
• Thorleif Haug (cross-country skiing 1, Nordic combined 1, 1 Olympics),
• Denise Herrmann (biathlon 1, cross-country skiing 1, 2 Olympics),
• Aleksander Grajf (biathlon 3, cross-country skiing 2, 5 Olympics),
• Menotti Jakobsson (Nordic combined 1, ski jumping 1, 1 Olympics)
• Arturo Kinch (alpine skiing 3, cross-country skiing 4, 5 Olympics),
• Evgeni Klimov (Nordic combined 1, ski jumping 1, 2 Olympics),
• Anssi Koivuranta (Nordic combined 2, ski jumping 1, 3 Olympics),
• Mari Laukkanen (biathlon 3, cross-country skiing 1, 3 Olympics),
• Ester Ledecká (alpine skiing 1, snowboarding 2, 2 Olympics),
• Nils Lindh (Nordic combined 1, ski jumping 1, 1 Olympics),
• Oļegs Maļuhins (biathlon 4, cross-country skiing 1, 5 Olympics),
• Hannu Manninen (cross-country skiing 1, Nordic combined 6, 6 Olympics),
• Jorien ter Mors (Short track speed skating 3, speed skating 2, 3 Olympics),
• Axel-Herman Nilsson (Nordic combined 1, ski jumping 2, 2 Olympics),
• Park Je-un (Nordic combined 1, ski jumping 1, 1 Olympics),
• Casey Puckett (alpine skiing 4, freestyle skiing 1, 5 Olympics),
• Sven Selånger (Nordic combined 2, ski jumping 3, 3 Olympics),
• Haralds Silovs (Short track speed skating 1, speed skating 3, 3 Olympics),
• Patrick Singleton (luge 2, skeleton 2, 4 Olympics),
• Thoralf Strømstad (cross-country skiing 1, Nordic combined 1, 1 Olympics),
• Sergei Tchepikov (biathlon 5, cross-country skiing 1, 6 Olympics),
• Athanassios Tsakiris (biathlon 4, cross-country skiing 2, 5 Olympics),
• Gerda Weissensteiner (bobsleigh 2, luge 4, 6 Olympics),
• Anna Carin Zidek (biathlon 2, cross-country skiing 1, 3 Olympics)

See also

• List of multiple Olympic medalists
• List of multiple Olympic gold medalists
• List of multiple Olympic medalists at a single Games
• List of multiple Olympic gold medalists at a single Games
• List of multiple Olympic medalists in one event
• List of multiple Olympic gold medalists in one event
• List of athletes who competed in both the Summer and Winter Olympic games

References

1. http://horsetalk.co.nz/2012/07/07/canadas-olympic-equestrian-team-named/
2. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on August 8, 2012. Retrieved August 11, 2012.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
3. Appeared at Summer Games and Winter Games.
4. Gold in luge and bronze in bobsleigh.
5. London 2012 - Swimming - Qualified Swimmers Archived July 1, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
7. "Summer Olympics Trivia". topendsports.com. Retrieved May 8, 2020.
8. He won three medals in two different sports, one in shooting and two in weightlifting.
9. He won four gold medals in two different sports, three in gymnastics and one in wrestling.

• Personal communication from Dr. Bill Mallon, past-President and co-founder, International Society of Olympic Historians

External links

• Olympics at Sports-Reference – Olympic athletes biographies and profiles
• (in English) Records of the Olympic Games
• (in English) Olympians with long careers (upload to Sydney 2000)
• Olympedia