46 year old Gymnast Oksana Chusovitina takes her final bow as she competed at her eighth and last Olympics

@Thevy29 Looks like Canada's Ian Millar went 10 times for the record, but that's in Equestrian. Which in all due respect, I see the horses as the athletes not the people.

Two guys went 9 times in Hubert Raudaschl (of Austria) for sailing and Afanasijs Kuzmins (of Soviet Union (3) and Latvia (6)) in shooting.

Not about to cover the men that went 8 times, too many.

But the record for women is 8. With now 4 women doing it.

Josefa Idem Guerrini (of West Germany (2) and Italy (6)) for Canoeing

Lesley Thompson of Canada Canada for Rowing

Nino Salukvadze (of Soviet Union (1), Olympic flag.svg Unified Team (1) and Georgia (6)) in shooting

And now Oksana Chusovitina (of Unified Team (1), Uzbekistan (4), and Germany (2)) in gymnastics.


With all due respect, Equestrian and shooting don't seem to be as physically demanding as some of the others.

And Gymnastics is normally one or two and done.

@Viper Wow, these people are dedicated

@funfan yeah was barcelona.. and technically it wasnt the soviet union but this weird followup team, but she competed before that at european championships as part of the soviet union team

@PinkPunk that's all so fascinating. I had forgotten that the ussr had fallen not even a full year before those games.