Michael Phelps in 2017.

This is the top 15 male Olympic swimming gold medals.

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

This is the top 15 female Olympic swimming gold medalists:

Name Gold Silver Bronze Total
1. United States Jenny Thompson 8 3 1 12
2. United States Katie Ledecky 7 3 0 10
3. East Germany Kristin Otto 6 0 0 6
United States Amy Van Dyken 6 0 0 6
5. Australia Emma McKeon 5 2 4 11
6. Hungary Krisztina Egerszegi 5 1 1 7
United States Dana Vollmer 5 1 1 7
8. United States Missy Franklin 5 0 1 6
9. United States Dara Torres 4 4 4 12
10. Australia Dawn Fraser 4 4 0 8
East Germany Kornelia Ender 4 4 0 8
12. United States Allison Schmitt 4 3 3 10
13. Netherlands Inge de Bruijn 4 2 2 8
14. Australia Cate Campbell 4 1 3 8
15. Australia Libby Trickett 4 1 2 7

Individual events

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

Men

Name Gold Silver Bronze Total
1. United States Michael Phelps 13 2 1 16
2. United States Mark Spitz 4 1 1 6
3. Russia Alexander Popov 4 1 0 5
4. East Germany Roland Matthes 4 0 1 5
5. Hungary Tamás Darnyi 4 0 0 4
Japan Kosuke Kitajima 4 0 0 4

Women

Name Gold Silver Bronze Total
1. United States Katie Ledecky 6 1 0 7
2. Hungary Krisztina Egerszegi 5 1 1 7
3. Netherlands Inge de Bruijn 4 1 1 6
4. United States Janet Evans 4 1 0 5
Ukraine Yana Klochkova 4 1 0 5
6. East Germany Kristin Otto 4 0 0 4

See also

References