While the Olympics originally was meant for just amateur athletes to compete, the youth movement has never been more present than this year's Tokyo Olympics. At age 17, Lydia Jacoby, one of 11 teenagers on the U. Youth dominated the women's skateboarding competition as the gold, silver and bronze medalists were all under 19 in the park and street finals, led by street gold medal winner and year-old Momiji Nishiya.
At age 12, park silver medalist Kokona Hiraki was already one of the youngest competitors in Tokyo. Had she won gold, she would've been the youngest gold medal winner in Games history. Here are the youngest medal winners in the history of the Summer Olympics, along with what sport they won and in what Games:. Dimitros Loundras, 10 years, days: Loundras set the bar high at the inaugural Olympic Games in While in Athens, he not only became the youngest confirmed Olympian in history, but also the youngest medal winner being a part of the bronze-winning Ethnikos Gymnastikos Syllogos team.
Luigina Giavotti, 11 years, days: Another gymnastics medalist, Giavotti won silver in the team all-around competition with Italy in the Amsterdam Games. Overall Swahn won 6 medals in a shooting sport called "running deer. However, there is an older medalist from the little known art competitions that ran from to In the final year that these events were held, British graphic artist John Copley was awarded the silver medal for his design "Polo Player" just about a month before his 74th birthday.
This makes him officially the oldest Olympic medalists ever. The oldest woman to compete in the Olympics was British rider Lorna Johnstone , who participated in Equestrian at the Olympic Games at 70 years and 5 days old. Another equestrian athlete, 66 years old Mary Hanna from Australia, became the second-oldest female Olympian when she competed at the Tokyo Olympics in She was aged 63 years and days when she won gold.
Lida Peyton "Eliza" Pollock won gold aged 63 years and days as part of the women's archery Team Round, though that as part of a team event. If you discount the young coxain who won gold in , the youngest confirmed Olympic medalist is Greek gymnast Dimitrios Loundras born on September 4, , who competed in the Athens Olympics. He was only 10 years old.
He received a bronze medal in a team event on 9 April at 10 years days. That would have made her the youngest Olympic champion ever, for at least a week. But the young Brazilian was edged out by another year-old, Momiji Nishiya, and had to settle for silver. But with Nishiya turning 14 at the end of the month, she's not younger than Gestring when she won the gold in Third place on the skate street platform went to year-old Funa Nakayama, giving the podium an average age of just We'll notify you here with news about.
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