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Michael Phelps has won 23 Olympic gold medals
No other Olympian has won more golds or more medals overall
Michael Phelps won 23 gold medals and 28 medals in total across five Olympic Games from 2000 to 2016. At the 2008 Beijing Games he won eight golds in a single Olympics, passing Mark Spitz's earlier record of seven.
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