List of athletes who competed in multiple sports at the Summer Olympic games

Below is a list of the 1052 athletes who participated in two or more sports at the Summer Olympics. Viggo Jensen from Denmark, Carl Schuhmann from Germany and Launceston Elliot from the United Kingdom are the only athletes to compete in four different sports. Sheila Taormina from the United States and Truus Klapwijk from the Netherlands are the only women to have competed three different sports.

Of the athletes who participated in two or more Summer Olympics in two different sports, 48 are Swedish and 23 of them participated in the home Olympics in Stockholm 1912.

Gwynne Evans,Athletics events are all non-medal events Leo Goodwin, Frank Kugler and Joe Lydon are the only athletes to win medals in three different sports. All of them are from the US and won medals in all three sports at home in St. Louis in 1904. Only six female athletes, the British Rebecca Romero the East German Roswitha Krause, the American Katherine Rawls, the American Aileen Riggin, the Swedish Hjördis Töpel, the American Helen Wainwright and other six athletes (all cyclists), the German Judith Arndt, the Russian Olga Slyusareva, the American Rebecca Twigg, the Dutch Marianne Vos, the Australian Kathy Watt and the Dutch Leontien Zijlaard-van Moorsel have won medals in two different sports.

The only eight athletes to win gold medals in two different sports at two different Olympic Games are Karch Kiraly from the United States, Oussama Mellouli from Tunisia, Daniel Norling from Sweden, Paul Radmilovic from Great Britain, Marianne Vos from the Netherlands, Bradley Wiggins from Great Britain, Walter Winans from the United States and Vyacheslav Yekimov from Russia.

There are 26 athletes that have at least one Olympic appearance in art competitions, but this sport and its results are not included on the official Olympic website.

The most common combinations of sports are road cycling/track cycling (417), swimming/water polo (156) and marathon swimming/swimming (55).

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The total column gives the number of Olympic Games in which the athlete appeared, not counting separately the events in which they appeared.