Ole Einar Bjørndalen

Biathlon, Norway. Bjørndalen won eight Olympic golds and a record number of world titles between 1998 and 2014. Five of the Olympic golds came in individual races and three in relays, where each team member skis and shoots in turn. At Salt Lake City in 2002 he won every men's event on the programme, three individual races and the relay, and he won the mixed relay at Sochi in 2014 at 40.