List of Olympic gold medalists in swimming by count

This is the top 15 male Olympic swimming gold medals.

	Name	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1.	Michael Phelps	23	3	2	28
2.	Mark Spitz	9	1	1	11
3.	Caeleb Dressel	9	1	0	10
4.	Matt Biondi	8	2	1	11
5.	Ryan Lochte	6	3	3	12
6.	Gary Hall, Jr.	5	3	2	10
7.	Ian Thorpe	5	3	1	9
8.	Ryan Murphy	5	2	2	9
9.	Aaron Peirsol	5	2	0	7
10.	Nathan Adrian	5	1	2	8
11.	Tom Jager	5	1	1	7
12.	Don Schollander	5	1	0	6
13.	Johnny Weissmuller	5	0	0	5
14.	Alexander Popov	4	5	0	9
15.	Roland Matthes	4	2	2	8
	Jason Lezak	4	2	2	8

This is the top 15 female Olympic swimming gold medalists:

	Name	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1.	Katie Ledecky	9	4	1	14
2.	Jenny Thompson	8	3	1	12
3.	Emma McKeon	6	3	5	14
4.	Kristin Otto	6	0	0	6
	Amy Van Dyken	6	0	0	6
6.	Kaylee McKeown	5	1	3	9
7.	Mollie O'Callaghan	5	1	2	8
8.	Krisztina Egerszegi	5	1	1	7
	Dana Vollmer	5	1	1	7
10.	Missy Franklin	5	0	1	6
11.	Dara Torres	4	4	4	12
12.	Dawn Fraser	4	4	0	8
	Kornelia Ender	4	4	0	8
14.	Allison Schmitt	4	3	3	10
15.	Ariarne Titmus	4	3	1	8

All swimmers with at least four individual gold medals are listed.

Men

	Name	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1.	Michael Phelps	13	2	1	16
2.	Mark Spitz	4	1	1	6
3.	Alexander Popov	4	1	0	5
4.	Roland Matthes	4	0	1	5
5.	Tamás Darnyi	4	0	0	4
	Kosuke Kitajima	4	0	0	4
	Léon Marchand	4	0	0	4

Women

	Name	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1.	Katie Ledecky	8	1	1	10
2.	Krisztina Egerszegi	5	1	1	7
3.	Inge de Bruijn	4	1	1	6
4.	Janet Evans	4	1	0	5
	Yana Klochkova	4	1	0	5
6.	Kaylee McKeown	4	0	1	5
7.	Kristin Otto	4	0	0	4

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