How do the world's most recognisable Olympic gold medalists look now?

Olympians are the world's top athletes and some of the youngest celebrities in the world. They represent their country by wearing the national colours while they participate. Most of the time, we get to see these athletes compete when they are in the prime of their careers, which is typically before the age of 30 and frequently before the age of 20. Since the Olympics only occur once every four years, it's not surprising that they mature rapidly. But after they retire, we rarely hear from athletes, and we have no idea what they're doing! We've tracked down the best so you can check out their latest projects; good news!

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Shawn Johnson

Her introduction to gymnastics came when she was just three years old. She had already won the balancing beam event in 2008. The following year, Forbes dubbed her "America's Most-Liked Sports Figure." Johnson then made her retirement from gymnastics official on June 3, 2012.

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Alicia Sacramone

Starting when she was eight years old, Alicia competed in gymnastics in the US National Championships and earned a total of 12 medals between 2004 and 2008. To date, she has won a total of ten medals, making her the second-most successful gymnast in American history. After the 2012 season, she decided to end her athletic career.

Michael Phelps

In every category, Michael Phelps is unrivalled. His 23 gold medals, 13 gold medals in individual events, and 16 medals in individual events make him the all-time medals leader. His total of 28 medals makes him the most successful Olympian of all time.

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Aly Raisman

As the leader of the American women's gymnastics team, "the Fierce Five," Aly represented the United States at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. She brought home the gold for both her squad and herself. At the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, she earned silver on the individual level and gold for the team.

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Dara Torres

Dara is the first swimmer from the United States to take part in five Olympic Games. She has 12 medals, four of which are gold. At age 41, she was the oldest swimmer to make an Olympic team. She has been a reporter and host for NBC, ESPN, and Fox, among others, and has also had a successful career as a model.

Greg Louganis

Greg Louganis won a gold medal at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles (he was a favourite for the 1980 Olympics but was unable to compete due to the boycott by the United States). He has won awards for the great things he has done as an amateur diver. Since then, in 2012 and 2016, he has been a coach for the US diving team.

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Nastia Liukin

Nastia's parents were both very good gymnasts, so she spent a lot of time in the gym and started gymnastics at age three. In 2005 and 2007, she won the world title on the balance beam. In 2008, she won the all-around title at the Olympics.

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Apolo Ohno

American retired short track speed skater Apolo Anton Ohno won eight Winter Olympic medals. Ohno, the most decorated American Winter Olympian, was inducted into the US Olympic Hall of Fame in 2019. Ohno started full-time training in 1996. Apolo became the face of US short track after capturing eight medals at the 2002 Winter Olympics—two gold, two silver, and four bronze.

Mary Lou Retton

Gymnastics pioneer Mary Lou Retton. She won the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics' inaugural all-around gold medal (a title she held for 20 years after). Her gymnastics move is called the "Retton Flip." She entered the National Gymnastics Hall of Fame in 1997.

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Michelle Kwan

Figure skater Michelle Kwan was the most popular female athlete of the 2000s, and she held the record for the most Olympic medals ever won by a woman. She is also often called the best figure skater ever. She won two Olympic medals in 1998 and 2002 and 14 other important awards.

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Bruce/Caitlyn Jenner

Jenner won the decathlon title at the 1976 Olympics in Montreal. This gave him the unofficial title of "world's greatest athlete," which stuck. After he won, he set a third world record in a row, which made him a "all-American hero." In 2015, Jenner had surgery to change his gender, so he is now known as Caitlyn Jenner.

Shaun White

Most people agree that Shaun White is the best Olympic snowboarder ever. At the 2006 Winter Olympics, he won gold in the half-pipe, coming very close to a perfect score. He had a high enough score at the 2010 Olympics to win gold without running again, but he chose to do so anyway. This time, he only missed a perfect score by 1.5 points.

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Nadia Comăneci

Nadia was the first gymnast in Olympic history to get a score of 10.0, and she did it when she was only 14 years old. At the 1976 Olympics in Montreal, she got three more gold medals and six more perfect scores. She has won nine gold medals and four medals at the World Championships over the course of her career.

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Mark Spitz

Mark Spitz is a swimmer who, in four years, won nine gold medals, one silver medal, and one bronze medal at the Olympics. He also won eight National Collegiate Athletic Association titles, 31 Amateur Athletic Union titles, and five Pan American gold medals. At the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, he won seven gold medals, which was a record that stood until Michael Phelps won eight medals in 2008. Spitz started working as a stockbroker in 2002, and now he gives about 25 motivational speeches around the world every year.

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Natalie Coughlin

At the University of California, Natalie Coughlin was the first woman to swim the 100-meter backstroke in less than a minute. At the 2008 Summer Olympics, she was the first American woman to win six medals in a single Olympiad. She was also the first woman to win gold in the 100-meter backstroke at two straight Olympics.

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Gabrielle Douglas

At the 2012 Summer Olympics, Gabrielle Douglas was one of the five gymnasts who made up the Fierce Five and helped her team win the gold medal. Also, she made history by becoming the first woman of colour to win the all-around title.

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Jacqueline Joyner-Kersee

Former American track and field star Jacqueline Joyner-Kersee is widely considered a legend in both the heptathlon and the long jump. She competed in these two events at four different Olympic Games, where she won a total of seven medals (three gold, one silver, and two bronze).

Shannon Lee Miller

Miller was a gymnast who won two consecutive All-Around World Championships in 1993 and 1994, as well as an Olympic gold medal on the balance beam in 1996. Before the 2016 Olympics, Simone Biles held the record for most medals won by a gymnast at a single Olympics with seven.

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George Foreman

The professional boxer has done a lot more than just have a personal grill bearing his name. He has won the world heavyweight title twice and won an Olympic gold medal. In his 81-fight career, he won 76 of them. After he retired from boxing, he pursued other interests and became a preacher, an author, and a businessman.

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Mia Hamm

Mia has won two gold medals at the Olympics and one at the FIFA Women's World Cup. In 2004, she was chosen to carry the American flag at the ceremony to end the Olympics in Athens. In 1997, the Women's Sports Foundation named her Sportswoman of the Year. In 1999, when she scored her 108th goal, she broke the all-time international goal record.

Janet Evans

Janet Beth Evans is a former competitive swimmer from the United States. She was best at freestyle events with long distances. Evans won four gold medals and set a world record at the Olympics in 1988 and 1992. He was a world champion and set a world record.

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Carl Lewis

During his track and field career, which lasted from 1979 to 1996, Carl Lewis won nine gold medals. He is one of only three Olympians who have ever won four gold medals in the same event. He tried to run for the New Jersey Senate in 2011, but he wasn't qualified.

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Larisa Latynina

Larisa has won nine gold medals, which makes her the gymnast with the most gold medals ever. She held the record for the most Olympic medals for 48 years, until Michael Phelps passed her. The Soviet Union was the best at gymnastics because of what she did.

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Ole Einar Bjørndalen

Ole Einar Bjrndalen has won more medals than any other Olympian in the history of the Winter Games. He is known as "The King of Biathlon." He is also the best biathlete. He has won 44 medals at the World Biathlon Championships, making him the winner with the most medals.

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Dorothy Hamill

Dorothy Hamill won gold in the 1976 Winter Olympics short and long programmes after finishing second in figure skating. Since since, only she has won a gold without a triple jump. She devised the "Hamill camel," a camel spin that turns into a sit spin, on skates.

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Rulon Gardner

Rulon won the gold medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics by beating the 13-year unbeaten record of Russian wrestler Aleksandr Karelin. In addition, this was the first time an American wrestler had ever won a gold medal at a major international tournament.

Mike Eruzione

Mike Eruzione captained the unbeaten 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team that is best recognised for their victory over the Soviet Union. After Eruzione led his team to a historic victory (and even scored the game-winning goal), the game was dubbed the "Miracle on Ice" and the team went on to win the gold medal.

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Bruce Jenner

He initially came to widespread recognition after he won the decathlon gold at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal. We are curious as to his long-term plans. He's a regular on the massively popular reality show Keeping Up with the Kardashians. According to his official profile, he is a "entrepreneur, commercial spokesman, television personality, actor, producer, and author."

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Muhammad Ali

At the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, he competed in the light heavyweight division and won the gold medal. Ali, who is now 70, has been found to have Parkinson's. On his official website, it says that he has become a philanthropist who "has helped make sure that more than 232 million people around the world no longer go hungry." He has been to many countries on many different continents to help poor children by giving them food and medicine.

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Tommie Smith

In 1968, Tommie Smith and John Carlos made news when they raised their fists in a "human rights salute." Smith won the gold medal in the 200-meter sprint at the Olympics that year. With a time of 19.83 seconds, he set a new world record. Smith's salute at the 1968 Olympics got him a lot of praise and a lot of awards. He is now a public speaker for a living. He gives speeches all over the world on a wide range of topics, such as racial harmony and human rights.

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Nancy Kerrigan

After Tonya Harding's ex-husband Jeff Gillooly attacked her knee, Nancy Kerrigan won silver in 1994 and bronze in 1992 at the Winter Olympics. Kerrigan has done a lot of different things since she stopped competing in figure skating. She has worked as a commentator, written two books, and was on the 2017 season of Dancing With the Stars.

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Michael Jordan

People often say that this man was the best basketball player ever. You've probably heard of him. He was on teams that won gold medals at the Olympics in 1984 and 1992. Is there anything Jordan still hasn't done? In 1993, Jordan quit the NBA to try his hand at baseball. He came back to the court two years later to play for the Chicago Bulls. Jordan finally left the Washington Wizards for good in 2003. Since then, President Obama gave him the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and Forbes magazine named him the highest-paid athlete of all time in 2017.

Andre Agassi

Even though he had a rough start, one of the best players in the world, Andre Agassi, went on to win the gold medal in men's singles at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. In tennis, he did it, making him the first American to do so since 1924. Even though he retired in 2006, Agassi is still active in the world of professional tennis. He often takes part in competitions and events that raise money for good causes. As Novak Djokovic's coach, he was at the 2017 French Open.

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Lindsey Vonn

Vonn, a skier who first competed in the Olympics when she was 17, won the first gold medal for the U.S. in the women's downhill in 2010. Tiger Woods, a pro golfer, and the skier went public with their relationship in 2013. After going out for more than three years, they broke up in May 2015. P.K. Subban and Vonn did end up talking to each other. They broke up in December 2020, exactly one year after they said they were getting married. Vonn went to the 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang, South Korea, even though a knee injury kept her from going to the 2014 Winter Olympics. She tied for sixth place in the women's super-g and took home a bronze medal. After coming in third at the 2019 FIS Alpine World Ski Championships in Sweden, the skier said in February that she would no longer ski professionally.

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Gabby Douglas

For the 2012 Women's All-Around Gymnastics Championship, Douglas and her Fierce Five teammates Aly Raisman, McKayla Maroney, Kyla Ross, and Jordyn Wieber were victorious. It was an incredible feeling. The gymnast has remained at the top of her field since earning Olympic gold in 2012. In 2015 she won multiple medals at different contests, and in 2016 she earned two additional gold medals. Her efforts at the 2018 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, helped the United States team win gold in the team event for the second year in a row. In 2020, after competing in the inaugural season of Masked Dancer, Douglas was crowned the winner.

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Ryan Lochte

The New Yorker known as "Jeah" competed in his first Olympics in 2004. At the 2012 London Olympics, he won his first individual gold in the men's 400-meter individual medley. Even though Lochte has had problems at work, he has done well in his personal life. In June 2017, he and the model Kayla Reid had a son named Caiden. After seven months, they got married in a civil ceremony. They told everyone in November 2018 that their second child would be a girl. In June 2019, their daughter Liv Rae was born.

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Hope Solo

Hope Solo, a soccer goalie, made several saves that helped Team USA beat Brazil and win the gold medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. After coming in fourth place on Dancing With the Stars in 2011, she tested positive for an illegal prescription drug. The Anti-Doping Agency told her about this before the 2012 Summer Olympics. She helped the U.S. win the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup, which earned her the Golden Glove award as the best goalkeeper of the year. She thought about not going to the 2016 Summer Games because she was worried about the Zika virus, but she decided to go so she could win a third gold medal.

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Simone Biles

At the 2016 Rio Olympics, Biles won gold in the team competition, individual all-around competition, vault, and floor exercise. Balance beam bronze. The participant broke the American record for most gold medals in one competition. Biles retired after her Rio victory. On season 24, she danced with Sasha Farber. Courage to Soar: A Body in Motion, A Life in Balance is her autobiography. In 2018, Biles admitted to being a Nassar victim and began competing.

Kerri Walsh Jennings

Walsh and Misty May-Treanor, beach volleyball teammates, won Olympic gold in 2004, 2008, and 2012. Walsh Jennings announced her third pregnancy after the London Olympics. Scout was her 2013 daughter. The athlete and new partner April Ross won a bronze medal at the Rio 2016 Olympics.

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Ashley Wagner

Skater won 2012 U.S. Sochi hosted championships. She insulted Olympic judges after finishing eighth in the women's solo competition. She was upset to finish fourth behind three competitors who didn't finish their routines. Wagner is the only American woman to reach three Grand Prix Finals since Michelle Kwan. She was the first female World Championships medalist in almost a decade. She alternated PyeongChang 2018. Wagner retires in 2019.

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Gracie Gold

Skater won 2014 U.S. Sochi short programme bronze. She placed fourth in singles. U.S. Championships and Team Challenge Cup, but skipped some due to personal issues and coaching changes. The skater said she was training for the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics after withdrawing from the 2019 U.S. Nationals.

Gus Kenworthy

The slopestyle skier won a silver medal at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, but he was famous for other reasons. The athlete spent a month finding homes for four puppies and their mother in the US. She also raised notice to Sochi's stray dogs. Kenworthy adopted two. American Horror Story featured him in 2019. In April 2021, former Bachelor contestant Colton Underwood came out as gay, and Kenworthy announced a Netflix series with him. Kenworthy won his first gold in February 2020.

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Meryl Davis & Charlie White

The 1997-formed ice dancing team won Olympic silver in 2010. After winning the 2011 World Championships in Russia, they won the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi. Davis and White began the Stars on Ice tour after winning the Sochi Games. They competed in Dancing With the Stars' 18th season. Davis won the Mirrorball Trophy with Maksim Chmerkovskiy. White and Sharna Burgess placed sixth. The Olympic champions retired from ice dance in 2017.

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Michael Johnson

Michael Johnson, an American sprinter, was one of the best athletes of the 1990s. Between 1992 and 2000, he won four gold medals at the Olympics. When Johnson retired, he set up a top-notch sports training centre in Texas. He has also worked for the BBC as an Olympics commentator.

Scott Hamilton

Four-time U.S. and World champion Scott Hamilton was known for his backflips and footwork. The 1980 Olympics flag bearer placed fifth. Hamilton's 1984 gold medal ended men's Olympic figure skating's 24-year streak. The 1990 American Olympic Hall of Fame inducted Hamilton. Scott switched from gold medals to assisting others at 63. After his illness-related depression, the Olympic Hall of Famer has done a lot of charity work. He founded the cancer-supporting Scott Hamilton Cares Foundation.

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Samuel Bode Miller

Former World Cup skier and Olympic and World Championship gold medalist. He won the overall World Cup in 2005 and 2008. Only five men have won World Cups in all five alpine skiing disciplines. Miller, 44, focuses on family. He's a Big Sky Resort spokesman despite retiring from skiing.

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Eric Heiden

Eric Heiden became the first speed skater to win every event at the 1980 Lake Placid Games. Heiden won five Olympic golds and other honours. He also rode well. Heiden entered the American Bicycling Hall of Fame in 1991. In 1991, the former Olympian became a doctor and became the US team doctor. Olympic speed skaters competed in 2002, 2004, 2010, and 2014. Heiden and his wife Karen run Heiden Orthopedics in Utah at 63.

Dominique Moceanu

In 1996, Dominique Moceanu, although only 14 years old, became the youngest ever American gymnast to win an Olympic gold medal. Moceanu was a member of the "Magnificent Seven," the first United States gymnastics team to take home the gold medal for the team competition.

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Laurie Hernandez

At the Olympic Games held in Rio de Janeiro in 2016, Laurie Hernandez, at 16 years old, was the youngest member of the "Final Five." In addition to the team's gold medal, Hernandez also brought home the silver medal in the individual balance beam finals.

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McKayla Rose Maroney

McKayla Rose Maroney is a well-known artist from the United States who used to compete in artistic gymnastics. She was a member of the American women's gymnastics team known as the Fierce Five, which brought home two medals from the 2012 Summer Olympics: a gold medal in the team competition and a silver medal in the vault competition. The majority of you undoubtedly recognise her from the famous photograph.

Kristi Yamaguchi

Kristi won the World Figure Skating Championships for the second year in a row in 1991 and 1992. She then went on to compete in the Winter Olympics in 1992 and earn the gold medal in figure skating. She was honoured with entry into the United States Olympic Hall of Fame in the year 2005.

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Birgit Fischer

Birgit Fischer is the only athlete in the history of canoeing to have won an Olympic gold medal at both the age of 18 and the age of 41, making her the youngest and oldest champion in the sport. She is one of just two athletes in Olympic history to have done so, having won eight gold medals in six different competitions.

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Michael Phelps

The man from Baltimore is the most successful Olympian in the history of the games, having won a total of 23 gold medals. His reputation skyrocketed at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, as he swam to eight gold medals (three of which were for the relay) and set seven new world records. During the same year, the staff of Sports Illustrated in the United States selected him as their "Athlete of the Year."

Thierry Omeyer

Thierry Omeyer is the best at collecting titles. What is probably the best goalkeeper of all time has won nine French titles, six German titles, and four Champions League titles. As a member of the national team, the world handball player from 2008 won five World Cups, three European Championships, and two Olympic titles. How amazing!