The most gold medals won by any player is three, achieved by Soviet players Vitaliy Semyenovich Davydov, Anatoliy Vasilyevich Firsov, Viktor Grigoryevich Kuzkin and Aleksandr Pavlovich Ragulin in 1964, 1968 and 1972, Vladislav Aleksandrovich Tretyak in 1972, 1976 and 1984, and by Andrey Khomutov in 1984, 1988 and 1992.