The Austria-Hungary-born hunk won three gold medals for swimming at the 1924 Paris Games and then another two, plus a bronze with the U.S. men's water polo team, in Amsterdam in 1928. He signed a contract with underwear maker BVD the following year to model its swimwear line and his, er, acting skills immediately got him noticed by MGM, which tapped him to star in 1932's Tarzan the Ape Man
The sisters have five gold medals between them—Venus earned the top singles title at the games in Sydney, while the pair won doubles gold at both the 2000 and 2008 Games.
This Italian former World Cup alpine ski racer, known to his fans as Tomba la Bomba, won five Olympic medals—three of them being gold.
At 15, figure skater Lipinski won the gold at the 1998 games in Nagano, making her the youngest individual medalist in the history of the Winter Games.
After taking home a silver and two bronze medals at the 2010 games in Vancouver, Ohno's Olympic career medal tally grew to eight, making him the most decorated U.S. Winter Olympian of all time. The speed skater previously won one gold and two bronze medals at the 2006 Olympics in Turin, Italy, and at the 2002 games in Salt Lake City, he took home one gold and one silver.
Stepping out of the shadow of infamous Nancy Kerigan and Tonya Harding controversy at the 1994 games in Lillehammer, the then 16-year-old representing the Ukraine won the gold for her ladies' singles routine.
The U.S. snowboarder, nicknamed the Flying Tomato, is a two-time Olympic medalist, winning the half-pipe gold in both the Vancouver and Torino games.
At the 2008 Vancouver games, the skier took home two medals: a gold in downhill and a bronze in Super G.
He may now have his own cooking show on the Food Network and song in the South Park movie, but this American figure skater has won multiple nation and world championships in addition to grabbing gold at the 1988 Olympics in Calgary.
This Massachusetts-born star began swimming at the age of 7 and has won a whopping—get this!—12 Olympic titles, including eight gold medals, during her competitive career.
This athlete-turned-actor has won nine Olympic golds, one Olympic silver and 10 World Championships medals. Fun fact: He's a vegan!
This Emmy-winning, Playboy-posing skating star won two Olympic gold medals for her native Germany, one in 1984 and again in 1988.
Before his days on Dancing With the Stars, this figure skater already had tons of titles under his belt, including winning the men's gold medal in the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver.
Born Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr., this American icon (and now Louis Vuitton model) won gold for men's boxing at the 1960 games in Rome and is the only three-time lineal World Heavyweight Champion.
At 16 years of age, the figure skater appeared on the cover of Time magazine—a week before the start of the 2002 Olympics in Salt Lake City. No pressure, right? Thankfully, she lived up to the hype and nabbed the gold medal in the long program.
Considered the fastest woman of all time, the track and field star known as Flo-Jo won a silver medal in the 200-meter dash at the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles. She managed to grab the gold in the same event at the 1988 Seoul Olympics and won the 100-meter dash and 400-meter relay during those Games as well. Sadly, she died in her sleep in 1998 at the age of 38.
This hunk swam in the Los Angeles, Seoul and Barcelona Olympics, racking up a total of 11 medals. Sadly, Biondi also carries with him a thisclose moment. In the 100-meter butterfly final at the 1988 games, Biondi was caught between strokes as he approached the finishing wall. He chose to glide rather than take another stroke and was beaten by Anthony Nesty of Suriname by 1/100th of a second. Talk about the agony of defeat!
Talk about getting a jump on the competition! At the 1984 Summer Olympics, the all-around athlete won the silver medal in the heptathalon, only to go on and earn the gold four years later when she came back for an encore at the 1988 Games in Seoul. Joyner-Kersee offered up a repeat performance at the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona by winning, yet again, in the heptathalon.
This American speed-skated his way to gold at the 1994 Olympics in Lillehammer. Fun Fact: He was the skating coach for NHL's Chicago Blackhawks from 2005 to 2007.
She may never have won a gold medal, but the skater easily won our hearts over the years and easily became a fan favorite, picking up the silver at the 1998 Games in Nagano and the bronze in 2002 in Salt Lake City.
The American speedskater turned her need for, well, speed into Olympic glory, winning five gold medals and a bronze while competing in the Games from 1988 to 1994.
The freestyle star has won 12, count 'em, 12 medals! What's more, she's the first swimmer from the U.S. to compete in not one, not two, but five Olympic Games.
In the 1992 Barcelona Summer Olympics, the diver became China's youngest Olympic champion ever when she won the 10-meter platform gold at the age of 13...which prompted the International Olympic Committee to rule divers must turn 14 by the year of Olympic competition to participate. She later racked up gold in Atlanta and Sydney as well.
The winner of a combined total of 16 World Championships and Olympic medals between 1991 and 1996—including being a member of the gold medal-winning Magnificent Seven team at the Atlanta Olympics—this gorgeous Oklahoma gal currently ranks as the most decorated gymnast, male or female, in U.S. history.