Has anyone in history besides Yuriy Sedykh ever been married to two different Olympic gold medalists? 

There’s probably more.

The old “leave one medalist for another” switcheroo……

Do Bruce and Caitlyn count as two?

It's politics, not sports, but Graca Machel had an impressive marriage double. Her first husband was Mozambique's first president, who died in a plane crash. Her second was Nelson Mandela, who she married while he was South Africa's first post-apartheid president.

For fun I made a Wikidata query that should answer this:

https://w.wiki/46Xo

That code answers the broader question "who has at least 2 Olympian spouses?" and here are the answers:

Patrice Donnelly: Married to Peter Shmock (1976, 9th in shotput) & Mark Lutz (1976, 5h4 in 200m)

John Nuttall: to Alison Wyeth (1992, 9th in 3000m) & Liz McColgan (1988, 2nd in 10K)

László Lantos: to Mária Balla-Lantos (1964, 6h2 in 100m backstroke) & Anikó Ducza (1964, 3rd in floor exercise)

Oleg Ryzhenkov: to Delphyne Heymann (1994, 3rd in biathlon relay) & Natalia Ryzhenkova (1994, 6th in biathlon relay)

Delphyne Heymann: to Oleg Ryzhenkov (1994, 4th in biathlon relay) & Andreas Heymann (1998, 7th in biathlon relay)

Andrei Nazarov: to Ksenija Balta (2016, 6th in long jump) & Remigija Nazaroviene (1988, 5th in heptathlon)

Ildikó Dobos: to Géza Tóth (1988, 4th in handball) & Tamás Varga (2004 and 2008, 1st in water polo)

Bernardo Rezende: to Fernanda Venturini (1996, 3rd in volleyball) & Vera Mossa (1988, 6th in volleyball)

Peter Mueller: to Leah Poulos-Mueller (1976, 2nd in skating 1K & 1980, 2nd in skating 500m & 1K) & Marianne Timmer (1998, 1st in speed skating 1K & 1.5K)

Yuriy Sedykh: to Natalya Lisovskaya (1988, 1st in shot put) & Lyudmila Kondratyeva (1980, 1st in 100m)

Ileana Gyulai-Drîmbă-Jenei: to Ion Drîmbă (1968, 1st in fencing foil) & Emerich Jenei (1964, 6th in soccer)

so the closest person I could find is Peter Mueller, who married speed skaters Leah Poulos (3 silver medals) and Marianne Timmer (2 gold medals) but is now divorced according to wikipedia. he also has a gold medal himself if that counts for anything.

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Improved the query with some help and got more matches:

https://w.wiki/46fN

It also yields a definitive answer to the title:

Ekaterina Gordeeva has married three Olympic gold medalists: Sergei Grinkov ('88 & '94 Olympic pair skating gold), Ilia Kulik ('98 singles figure skating gold), and David Pelletier ('02 pairs gold).

Here are the other matches:

Petra Thümer: to Alf-Gerd Deckert ('80, 9th in 30km XC skiing) & Klaus Katzur ('72, 2nd in 4x100m swim)

Josef Staudinger: to Magdalene Epply-Staudinger ('32, 6th in springboard dive) & Alma Staudinger ('48, 4th in platform dive)

Marlies Ray: to Eugen Ray ('80, 5th in 4x100m) & Hans-Jürgen Helbig ('80, 8th in mixed shooting/running)

Roman Kostomarov: to Oksana Domnina ('10, 3rd in ice dancing) & Julia Lautowa ('98, 4th in free skate)

Antonina Makhina: to Yury Zelikovich ('88, 4th in rowing quad skulls) & Aleksandr Dumchev ('88, 2nd in rowing eights)

Kornelia Ender: to Roland Matthes ('68-'72, 2x1st in 100m & 200m backstroke) & Steffen Grummt ('80, 8th in decathlon)

Alexander Zhulin: to Tatiana Navka ('06, 1st in mixed ice dancing) & Maya Usova ('94, 2nd in mixed ice dancing)

Mark Phillips: to HRH Princess Anne ('76, 24th in indiv. equestrian) & Sandy Pflueger ('84, 6th in team equestrian)

Denisa Rosolová: to Adam Helcelet ('16, 12th in decathlon) & Lukáš Rosol ('16, 17th in doubles tennis)

Ole Einar Bjørndalen: to Darya Domracheva ('14-'18, 1st in biathlon 10k,12.5k,15k,4x6k) & Nathalie Santer ('94, 7th in biathlon 7.5k)

DickMargarita wrote:

Do Bruce and Caitlyn count as two?

Well done! Made me chuckle.

IIRC, Mark Lutz was also married to Francie Larrieu. Patrice Donnelly was in the movies Personal Best.

Well done. Also, how many Olympic gold medalists have been married to *each other*? Has it ever been done in running events? The closest I can think of is Tirunesh Dibaba and Sileshi Sihine, but that's gold and silver.

He lived well beyond his expectations; was it two top class women he married or was it steroids ?

You decide.

The Eatons have gold and bronze.

cardinal truth wrote:

IIRC, Mark Lutz was also married to Francie Larrieu. Patrice Donnelly was in the movies Personal Best.

Yep, that wasn't in the data but it is now. Also just to add one to the love quadrangle above, David Pelletier has married gold medalist Jamie Salé ('02, 1st in pairs) in addition to Ekaterina Gordeeva ('94, 1st in pairs) so that makes 3 people total who have wedded at least two gold medalists.

Mark Lutz: to Francie Larrieu Smith ('88, 5th in 10K) & Patrice Donnelly ('76, 5h1 in 100mH)

248urjief wrote:

Well done. Also, how many Olympic gold medalists have been married to *each other*? Has it ever been done in running events? The closest I can think of is Tirunesh Dibaba and Sileshi Sihine, but that's gold and silver.

Not running, but I had a hunch that is fact. Emil Zatopek's wife Dana Zatopkova won the 1952 javelin gold medal. Two golds. I appreciated a story from his biography in which a snow storm produced 16" of snow. Zatopek put Dana on his back and went for a 9 mile run.

Not Marion Jones... but it wasn't for lack of trying!

248urjief wrote:

Well done. Also, how many Olympic gold medalists have been married to *each other*? Has it ever been done in running events? The closest I can think of is Tirunesh Dibaba and Sileshi Sihine, but that's gold and silver.

Not running but thrower Harold Connelly was married to a gold medalist thrower Fikirova or Fikitova?

Opinionated guy wrote:

Emil Zatopek's wife Dana Zatopkova won the 1952 javelin gold medal. Two golds.

Well, actually four golds for the two of them in that Olympics.

Emil and Dana were born on the same day. No children from this physically gifted couple.