Larisa Latynina
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Artistic gymnastics, Soviet Union. Latynina won 18 Olympic medals between 1956 and 1964, nine of them gold. Individually she won the all-around title in 1956 and 1960 and several apparatus golds; in the team event, where each gymnast's scores counted towards the total, she was part of three straight Soviet victories, in 1956, 1960 and 1964.
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