If Kipchoge medals in Tokyo, he'll have medaled in 4 different Olympics. Has any other track athlete done that?

Think Carl Lewis won 4 consecutive golds in long jump, maybe there are others

i wondered if anyone has ever won back to back Olympic marathons. it looks like only Abebe Bikila and Waldemar Cierpinski have done this. so Kipchoge could join some rare company if he takes the gold!

Waldemar was very likely a drug cheat, meaning that Shorter should have won back-to-back golds in Montreal.

Merlene Ottey - 5 Olympics.

snow blow wrote:

Even though Bekele and Farah have 4 medals, they both earned them over two Olympic games. Kipchoge already has 3 medals from 3 different Olympics, which seems to be rare. The only other guys I can think of with medals from 3 olympics are guys like Bolt, Lewis, Johnson, and Gatlin.

Al Oerter, Olympic gold, 1956, 1960, 1964 & 1968 shot put. Kipchoge cannot top that.

Al Oerter in the discus won gold 4 times.

Phelps has already, or will soon enough.

Carl Lewis

FFF wrote:

Phelps has already, or will soon enough.

Which track event does Phelps compete on?

Are there any T&F fans on letsrun? wrote:

snow blow wrote:

Even though Bekele and Farah have 4 medals, they both earned them over two Olympic games. Kipchoge already has 3 medals from 3 different Olympics, which seems to be rare. The only other guys I can think of with medals from 3 olympics are guys like Bolt, Lewis, Johnson, and Gatlin.

Al Oerter, Olympic gold, 1956, 1960, 1964 & 1968 shot put. Kipchoge cannot top that.

With his dominance in the marathon, I think Kipchoge will still be the favourite in Paris (Tokyo's Gold is pretty much secured at this point), after all he will just be 39 in 2024, and that would be 5 medals.

D'oh wrote:

Which track event does Phelps compete on?

lul

E-Pain wrote:

Waldemar was very likely a drug cheat, meaning that Shorter should have won back-to-back golds in Montreal.

No proof, yes other east German athletes cheated. But, they were strength athletes not endurance athletes. Waldemar was clean. I read Frank Shorter autobiography were he accused him of doping, but he is just a hater and envious of him.

Edwin Moses won gold in '76 and '84, bronze in '88. He was as close to a lock as anyone in track can be in '80 had the Olympic boycott not happened with his 122 race win streak spanning '77 to '87.

Blitzkrieg BLITZKRIEG wrote:

E-Pain wrote:

Waldemar was very likely a drug cheat, meaning that Shorter should have won back-to-back golds in Montreal.

No proof, yes other east German athletes cheated. But, they were strength athletes not endurance athletes. Waldemar was clean. I read Frank Shorter autobiography were he accused him of doping, but he is just a hater and envious of him.

After the wall fell records from the GDR doping machine were released showing that Cierpinski was definitely on the sauce.

Jackie Joyner-Kersee medaled in the 1984, 1988, 1992 and 1996 Olympics in either the Heptathlon and Long Jump.

Carl lewis of course

Track athlete

4 consecutive Olympic Golds

Obvious one wrote:

Carl Lewis

A number of athletes have done this. Besides Lewis, there's Felix, Szewinska...PLUS

Campbell and Ottey got track medals in 5 different Olympics, and Ottey was 4th in the Seoul 200m which meant she almost medaled in 6 Olympics!

Viktor Saneyev won three Golds in a row (68-76) followed by a Silver(80) in the TJ.

Later he parlayed that success into a pizza delivery boy career in Australia.

You didn't specify male/female or distance/sprint so I'll add the female track athletes who come in mind, Allyson Felix and Tirunesh Dibaba: Athens 2004, Beijing 2008, London 2012, and Rio 2016.