I just recently found some very interesting Chess Olympiad statistics:

Best individual results in Men’s Olympiads

#

Player

Country

Olymp.

Games

Won

Drawn

Lost

%

Medals

1

Mikhail Tal

Soviet Union

8

101

65

34

2

81.2

5 – 2 – 0

2

Anatoly Karpov

Soviet Union

6

68

43

23

2

80.1

3 – 2 – 0

3

Tigran Petrosian

Soviet Union

10

129

78

50

1

79.8

6 – 0 – 0

4

Isaac Kashdan

United States

5

79

52

22

5

79.7

2 – 1 – 1

5

Vassily Smyslov

Soviet Union

9

113

69

42

2

79.6

4 – 2 – 2

6

David Bronstein

Soviet Union

4

49

30

18

1

79.6

3 – 1 – 0

7

Garry Kasparov

Soviet Union (1)

8

82

50

29

3

78.7

7 – 2 – 2

8

Alexander Alekhine

France

5

72

43

27

2

78.5

2 – 2 – 0

9

Milan Matulovic

Yugoslavia

6

78

46

28

4

76.9

1 – 2 – 0

10

Paul Keres

Soviet Union (2)

10

141

85

44

12

75.9

5 – 1 – 1

11

Efim Geller

Soviet Union

7

76

46

23

7

75.6

3 – 3 – 0

12

James Tarjan

United States

5

51

32

13

6

75.5

2 – 1 – 0

13

Bobby Fischer

United States

4

65

40

18

7

75.4

2 – 1 – 0

14

Mikhail Botvinnik

Soviet Union

6

73

39

31

3

74.7

2 – 1 – 2

15

Salo Flohr

Czechoslovakia

7

82

46

28

8

73.2

2 – 1 – 1

Unfortunately, I did not find similar statistics for the Women’s Olympiads.
Here are my personal Chess Olympiad records:
1988 Thessaloniki, Greece: 14 games: 7 wins – 7 draws – 0 loss = 10.5 points
1990 Novi Sad, Yugoslavia: 14 games: 9 wins – 5 draws – 0 loss = 11.5 points
1994 Moscow, Russia: 14 games: 8 wins – 6 draws – 0 loss = 11 points
2004 Calviá, Spain: 14 games: 7 wins – 7 draws – 0 loss = 10.5 points
Total: 56 games with 31 wins – 25 draws – 0 loss, all on board 1, never sat out for any round, for a percentage of 77.68%, with 10 medals (5 Gold medals, 4 Silver medals, and 1 Bronze medal).
Source: Wiki and OlympiBase

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