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Twenty-eight Olympic medals — more than any athlete in any sport.

Butterfly / medley · 2000–2016

Wins distance finals by lengths, not fingertips.

Distance freestyle · 2012–present

Seven golds and seven world records in one week.

Freestyle / butterfly · 1965–1972

World champion at fifteen, with size 17 feet.

Freestyle · 1997–2006

Six golds at a single Olympics across three different strokes.

Freestyle / backstroke · 1982–1989

Held every one of the twenty fastest 100 m breaststroke times.

Breaststroke · 2012–present

Won the same Olympic event three Games in a row.

Freestyle · 1955–1964

Five golds in Tokyo, and the 100 m butterfly world record.

Sprint freestyle / butterfly · 2013–present

Olympic champion at fourteen, and three-time 200 m backstroke winner.

Backstroke · 1988–1996

World records in butterfly and freestyle sprints simultaneously.

Butterfly / freestyle · 2007–present