American competition swimmer, Natalie Coughlin, has twelve Olympic medals, tying her with former world record-holder in three events and who else?
Natalie Coughlin Natalie Anne Coughlin Hall (born August 23, 1982) is an American competition swimmer and twelve-time Olympic medalist. While attending the University of California, Berkeley, she became the first woman ever to swim the 100-meter backstroke (long course) in less than one minute—ten days before her 20th birthday in 2002. At the 2008 Summer Olympics, she became the first U.S. female athlete in modern Olympic history to win six medals in one Olympiad, and the first woman ever to win a 100-meter backstroke gold in two consecutive Olympics. At the 2012 Summer Olympics, she earned a bronze medal in the 4×100-meter freestyle relay. Her total of twelve Olympic medals ties her with Jenny Thompson and Dara Torres for the most all-time medals by a female swimmer.
Krisztina Egerszegi Krisztina Egerszegi (] ; born 16 August 1974) is a Hungarian former world record holding swimmer and one of the greatest Hungarian Olympic champions of the modern era. She is a three-time Olympian (1988, 1992 and 1996) and five time Olympic champion; and one of three individuals (Dawn Fraser and Michael Phelps being the other two) to have ever won the same swimming event at three consecutive Summer Olympics. She is the most successful and greatest individual female swimmer ever, having won five individual Olympic gold medals, the only female swimmer to do so. Katie Ledecky of the United States matched her total of 5 Olympic gold medals, winning 1 individual gold in London 2012, 3 individual ones and one team gold in Rio in 2016.