Married Couples Winning Olympic Gold Medals

There are 11 Olympic married couples who have won gold medals for different nations, but only Connolly/Fikotová and Frodeno/Snowsill won them at the same Olympics.

And again we don’t always know the date of the marriages. Interestingly, all 11 couples won their medals in the same sport.

Here are those 11 couples

Husband

	Sport	NOC	Golds	Wife	NOC	Gold1
Hal Connolly	ATH	USA	1956	Olga Fikotová	TCH	1956
Jan Frodeno	TRI	GER	2008	Emma Snowsill	AUS	2008
Bill Toomey	ATH	USA	1968	Mary Rand	GBR	1964
Peter Mueller	SSK	USA	1976	Marianne Timmer	NED	1998/2006
Yuriy Siedykh	ATH	URS	1976/80	Nataliya Lisovskaya	URS	1988
Bart Conner	GYM	USA	1984	Nadia Comăneci	ROU	1976/80
Valery Medvedtsev	BIA	URS	1988	Nataliya Snytina	RUS	1994
Valery Medvedtsev	BIA	URS	1988	Olga Pylyova	RUS	2002/10
Andre Agassi	TEN	USA	1996	Steffi Graf	GER	1988
Ids Postma	SSK	NED	1998	Anni Friesinger	GER	2002/06/10
Matt Emmons	SHO	USA	2004	Kateřina Kůrková	CZE	2008

There are 6 cases of Olympic married couples winning gold medals together at 2 different Olympic Games, or Olympic Winter Games.

Adding Winter is important because 4 of these were married couples in pairs figure skating, well known to most Olympic or figure skating aficionados.

These would be, in order of when they did it – Pierre Brunet and Andrée Brunet-Joly (1928/32 – only married in 1932); Oleg Protopopov and Lyudmila Belusova (1964/68); Aleksandr Zaytsev and Irina Rodnina (1976/80); and Sergey Grinkov and Ekaterina Gordeeva (1988/94).

What about married couples from different nations both winning medals of any color at the same Olympic Games?

 That has happened 13 times by 12 couples, as Emmons and Kůrková-Emmons won medals in both 2004 and 2008, although they were only married in 2008. We can only confirm two married couples that won their medals while married – in addition to Emmons / Kůrková-Emmons in 2008, in 2002 there was Raphaël Poirée (FRA) and Liv Grete Skjelbreid-Poirée (NOR) in biathlon. There are two couples whose marital status at the time of their concurrent medals is uncertain, although of the others, 8 were not married while winning their medals.

In all 230 couples that were either married, eventually married, or once married, have both won Olympic medals. It has happened 31 times that they have been from different nations, but 19 of those did not occur at the same Olympic Games.

Of these 230, 150 couples won medals at the same Olympics, with the same caveat that we can’t always speak for marital status.

 It has happened 29 times that these couples won medals together at two Olympics, and 3 couples won medals together at 3 Olympics, once again in pairs or dance figure skating – Brunet/Brunet-Joly (1924/28/32), Sergey Ponomarenko/Marina Klimova (1984/88/92) (URS/EUN) (ice dance), and Zhao Hongbo/Shen Xue (2002/06/10) (CHN).

Husbands and wife usually competed in the same sports while winning their medals at the Olympics. Of the 66 gold medalist couples, only 10 of them competed in different sports. Of the 230 medalist couples, 186 of them competed in the same sport