Most Gold Medals Winter Olympics All Time. The GOAT of the Winter Olympics is Norwegian Biathlon Athlete Ole Einar Bjørndalen with 8 Gold medals, 4 Silver and 1 Bronze medal won. Bjørndalen is only one bronze medal ahead of country man Bjørn Dæhlie – the most successful cross country skier in olympic history.
Norwegian Marit Bjørgen is the GOAT of Winter Olympics on the women’s side with 6 Gold medals, 3 silver and 1 bronze.
Most Gold Medals Winter Olympics All Time
| 1 |  Norway |
Ole Einar Bjørndalen | Biathlon | M | 8 | 4 | 1 | 13 |
| 2 | Norway |
Bjørn Dæhlie | Cross-country | M | 8 | 4 | 0 | 12 |
| 3 | Norway |
Marit Bjørgen | Cross-country | F | 6 | 3 | 1 | 10 |
| 4 |  Soviet Union/ Unified Team |
Raisa Smetanina | Cross-country | F | 4 | 5 | 1 | 10 |
| 5 |  Italy |
Stefania Belmondo | Cross-country | F | 2 | 3 | 5 | 10 |
| 6 | Unified Team/ Russia |
Lyubov Yegorova | Cross-country | F | 6 | 3 | 0 | 9 |
| 7 |  Germany |
Claudia Pechstein | Speed skating | F | 5 | 2 | 2 | 9 |
| 8 |  Sweden |
Sixten Jernberg | Cross-country | M | 4 | 3 | 2 | 9 |
| 9 | Germany |
Uschi Disl | Biathlon | F | 2 | 4 | 3 | 9 |
| 10 |  South Korea/ Russia |
Viktor Ahn | Short track | M | 6 | 0 | 2 | 8 |
| 11 | Germany |
Ricco Groß | Biathlon | M | 4 | 3 | 1 | 8 |
| 11 |  Netherlands |
Ireen Wüst | Speed skating | F | 4 | 3 | 1 | 8 |
| 13 | Norway |
Kjetil André Aamodt | Alpine skiing | M | 4 | 2 | 2 | 8 |
| 13 | Germany |
Sven Fischer | Biathlon | M | 4 | 2 | 2 | 8 |
| 13 | Soviet Union |
Galina Kulakova | Cross-country | F | 4 | 2 | 2 | 8 |
| 16 | Germany |
Gunda Niemann-Stirnemann | Speed skating | F | 3 | 4 | 1 | 8 |
| 16 |  East Germany |
Karin Enke | Speed skating | F | 3 | 4 | 1 | 8 |
| 18 |  United States |
Apolo Anton Ohno | Short track | M | 2 | 2 | 4 | 8 |