Who won the most medals in men's gymnastics in a single olympic games?
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Most medals won by a man in a single games. Aleksandr Dityatin, gymnastics, Soviet Union, 1980 (3 gold, 4 silver, 1 bronze).
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Judge from the stats, I would say Irina Rodnina & Alexander Zaitsev.  They won Olympics in 1976, 1980 (Irina also won 1972 with Alexei Ulanov), and World Champions in 1973-1978 (Irina also won with Alexei Ulanov from 1969-1972).  It's hard to find someone so dominant.
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Mitch Gaylord in the '84 games won 4 medals\n\n1- Gold - Team competition \n1- Silver - Horse Vault\n1- Bronze - Parallel Bars\n1- Bronze - Still Rings\n\nPeter Vidmar won 3 medals including two Gold medals
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http://www.athens2004.com/en/OlympicMedals/medals?lang=en&channel=OlympicMedals&discipline_code=BD\n\nScroll to the bottom of the page and all the winners of each event is posted. You can click on the athletes and it will have a bio each one.
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Indoor volleyball became an Olympic sport in 1964. Beach volleyball became an Olympic sport in 1996.\n\n-- Men's Olympic Gold Medal Winners -- \nTokyo 1964 - gold: USSR\nMexico 1968 - gold: USSR\nMunich 1972 - indoor: Japan\nMontreal 1976 - indoor: Poland\nMoscow 1980 - indoor: USSR\nLA 1984 - indoor: USA\nSeoul 1988 - indoor: USA\nBarcelona 1992 - indoor: Brazil\nAtlanta 1996 - indoor: Netherlands; beach: USA (Kiraly & Steffes)\nSydney 2000 - indoor: Yugoslavia; beach: USA (Blanton & Fonoimoana)\nAthens 2004 - indoor: Brazil; beach: Brazil (Rego & Santos)
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He won a total of ten medals : 09 gold and 01 silver\n\nHere the listing :\n\nLos Angeles  1984\n100m (Gold)\n200m (Gold)\n4x100m relay (Gold)\nlong jump (Gold)\n\nSeoul  1988 (Gold) \n100m (Gold)   \n200m (Silver)\nlong jump (Gold)\n\nBarcelona  1992 \n4x100m relay (Gold)\nlong jump (Gold)\n\nAtlanta  1996  \nlong jump
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There were 14 Olympians from Texas that won a medal in the 2004 Summer Olympics in Sydney.  Some won multiple medals like 400m specialist Jeremy Wariner of Waco, Texas.  There were a combined 7 gold medals, 4 silver medals, and 4 bronze medals.
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Very difficult to break it down to one single event so, I'll give you my top 10 in order of peference:\n\n10.  Edwin Moses, who won gold medals in the 400-meter hurdles at the 1976 and 1984 Summer Olympics. Between 1977 and 1987, Moses won 107 consecutive finals (122 consecutive races) and set the world record  four times.\n\n9. Javier Sotomayor, who is the only man to exceed 8 foot in the (8'-½ in,2.45 meters ) in the High Jump, when  he set the world record on July 23, 1993 in Salamanca, Spain.\n\n8. Carl Lewis, matching Jesse Owens mark of 4 gold medals in a single Olympiad, the '84 Los Angeles Games.\n\n7. Carl Lewis, matching Al Oerter's feat of winning 4 gold medals for the same event in 4 consecutive Olympiads, when he won the long jump in the '96 Atlanta Games, matching his efforts in '84, '88 and '92.\n\n6. Michael Johnson winning both the 200m and 400m races in a single Olympics, during the 1996 Atlanta Games.  He easily captured the 400m Olympic title with a time of 43.49 beating Roger Black of Great Britain by almost one second. At the 200m final, Johnson achieved a peak speed of over 40 km/h (25 mph), and finished the race in 19.32 shattering the world record by a third of a second.\n\n5.  Al Oerter became the first track and field athlete to win consecutive gold medals for the same event over the period of FOUR Olympiads. Oerter, won the Discus thow at the '56, '60, '64 & '68 Olmpics.\n\n4. Jim Thorpe's perfomance at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics. Along with the decathlon and pentathlon, Thorpe contested the long jump and high jump as well, but his first event scheduled was the pentathlon. Thorpe was the class of the field, winning four events. He placed only third in the javelin, an event he had never done before 1912. \n\nThe same day he won the pentathlon gold, Thorpe qualified for the high-jump final. In that final, he placed fourth, and took seventh place in the long jump. Thorpe's final event was the decathlon, where tough competition from local favorite Hugo Wieslander was expected. But Wieslander was no match for Thorpe either, finishing some 700 points behind. Thorpe placed in the top four of all ten events.\n\n3. Jessie Owens. But not for winning the 4 Olympic Gold Medals in the 36' Games, but for an extraordinary day that took place a year earlier. In a span of 45 minutes on May 25, 1935 at the Big Ten Championships in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Owns tied the record for the 100 yard dash, set world records in the long jump, 220 yard dash, and 220 yard low hurdles. With the 220 times bettering the records for 200 meter equivalents, Owns set or tied SIX World record in less thane ONE hour.\n\n2. On May 6, 1954 during a meet between British AAA and Oxford University, Roger Bannister broke the 4-minute barrier;  with a time of 3 min 59.4. \n\n1. Bob Beamon's World record jump at the 1968 Mexico City Olymipic Games. Although Beamon was a favorite, his jump was completely unexpected.  From 1935 to 1968, the long jump world record had increased only 8.25" from 26' 8'-1/2 to 27' 4-3/4. With a single jump, Beamon added nearly 22" to the record in a single day.
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No he didn't actually do a backflip in the Olympics but yes he has done them in other show events
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If you base the performance on medals won, the best performing nation in Modern Olympic history is the USA. \n\nThe  link shows the total medals won by nation, for both the Summer & Winter games.
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The world record holder forthe 2000m single rowing (single scull) is Marcel Hacker (GER) at 6:36:33 set in Seville in 2002.  \n\nThe World Best Times recognised by FISA for Olympic events are those recorded on regatta courses which have held either World Championships, Olympic Games or World Cups since 1980 at a distance of 2000m.\n\nCouldn't find anything on 4000m though, sorry.  I've included some links to help though.\n\nMatt
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He is not listed as an Olympic medalist on the official site:\n\nhttp://www.olympic.org/uk/athletes/results/search_r_uk.asp\n\nI found reference to him saying he was silver medalist in the 1998 World Cup in Freestyle Wresting.
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You can find information on all the Olympic medalists here:\n\nhttp://www.olympic.org/uk/athletes/results/search_r_uk.asp
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http://www.american-gymnast.com/home/index.cfm\n\n\ni get everything here
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Jesse Owens\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_Owens\n\nHe won a ton of medals at the olympics with hitler directly looking on. It was a slap in the face after his propaganda of racial superiority among all aryans.
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I could not find him in the Olympic database. What year? Spelling could be wrong.
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karch karaly.  he's won a beach volleyball tournament in every decade since the 70's; he has two Olympic gold medals in indoor volleyball, and won the first men's beach olymipic gold medal.  and he's the one that all the top volleyball players in the world initially inspired to be.