![]() The most decorated LGBT+ Olympian is British Paralympic equestrian Lee Pearson, with 17 medals including 14 golds the most decorated able-bodied LGBT+ Olympian is Dutch speed skater Ireen Wüst, with 13 medals including 6 golds the most decorated able-bodied LGBT+ Summer Olympian is Australian swimmer Ian Thorpe, with 9 medals including 5 golds. The nation with the most out LGBT+ Olympians is the United States, including two who have also competed for other nations. ![]() The Olympic sport with the most LGBT+ participants is football. ![]() The majority of LGBT+ Olympians are female. LGBT+ Olympians have contested events across over 60 sports, as well as several artistic events. The 1932 Summer Olympics was the first instance of an athlete now known to be intersex competing, also winning a medal. The first Olympic Games in which an athlete now known to be LGBT+ competed was the 1900 Summer Olympics, also the first LGBT+ Olympic medalist and first contemporaneously out Olympian. ![]() There have been 634 modern Olympians (including Paralympians, Summer Olympic athletes and artists, and Winter Olympians) who have identified as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, pansexual, non-binary, queer, and/or having an intersex condition, or who have openly been in a same-sex relationship. ![]()
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