Who holds the record for most individual olympic medals?

The record for most medals won in a single Olympics is 8 and is shared by gynmast Aleksandr Dityatin of the Soviet Union at the 1980 Summer Games in Moscow (3 gold, 4 silver, 1 bronze) and swimmer Michael Phelps of the United States at the 2004 Summer Games in Athens (6 gold, 2 bronze) and at the 2008 Summer Games in Beijing (8 gold).