This list includes athletes who have won six or more Olympic medals over their sporting career.
The Years listed for each athlete only include the Games in which they won medals.
More detailed information is provided in the linked articles for the individual athletes.
If the tied athletes have exactly the same number of gold, silver and bronze medals, the ranking is given as a tie and the athletes are listed in order first by career years and then alphabetically by surname.
This is a progressive list of Olympians that have held the record for most medals won.