Dan O'Brien was 30 when he won a gold medal as a decathlon athlete in the summer games in Atlanta. O'Brien won a boatload of world championships as well, and was one of the most marketable athletes in Olympic history. His popular appeal was enough for him to crack the top ten. Jackie Joyner- Kersee is one of the most celebrated athletes in history and her six medals during her Olympic career are a track and field rarity.
Joyner- Kersee proved that age is just a number in the Olympic games, when she won a bronze medal at age Ray Emery won eight gold meals in the early 's, including two at the ripe age of During his career he was known as the best standing jumper in the world.
Emery won all three standing jump events in both and , and his eight individual golds are a record that has only been bested by Michael Phelps.
Her career lasted for over twelve years and Jenny Thompson is one of the most decorated Olympic athletes in history. Thompson could have been rated even higher if she had won more individual medals as she got older, but her overall medal count comes into play here. Thompson won eight golds and when she was 31, she captured two silver medals at the games in Athens.
He was only 22 when he dominated the Munich games by winning seven golds, but Mark Spitz is placed highly because of his remarkable comeback effort in and his amazing medal count. Skinner is also the first married member of the team since Annia Hatch in At 22, she decided to return to the elite level and began training for the Games, which of course were postponed.
Her dreams were nearly dashed again when in December , she contracted COVID, which resulted in a case of pneumonia that landed her in the hospital for a week and also set back her Olympics training routine. But with hard work and the support of her teammates, she earned her coveted spot on the team. Olympic swimmer since five-time gold medalist and one-time silver medalist Katie Ledecky, who was also 15 years old when she first dove into Olympic stardom at the London Games.
This will be the first time Grimes has competed in the Olympics. A California-based skateboarder, year-old Brighton Zeuner , is another first-time Olympian, though she already made history at 13 years old, when she became the youngest champion of the X Games in Hailing from the Rocky Mountain foothills of Colorado, first-time Olympian Colin Duffy began climbing around the age of five.
Erriyon Knighton is the youngest American male track athlete to qualify for the Olympics in 57 years. The Tampa, Florida, native is 6-foot-3 and known for his long stride.
He started as a football player whose coaches suggested track in , then turned pro as a runner earlier this year. At 46, gold and silver medalist Oksana Chusovitina from Uzbekistan is expected to become the oldest woman ever to compete in Olympic gymnastics. The year-old Syrian table tennis player Hend Zaza , is expected to be the youngest Olympian competing at the Tokyo Games. The oldest Olympic medal winner is somewhat controversial.
English artist John Copley was 73 when he took the silver in in the painting and graphic arts competition. However, juried arts competitions were phased out of the Olympics in the s, and all medals awarded in the category have since been officially stricken from the records.
Get the Insider App. Click here to learn more. A leading-edge research firm focused on digital transformation. Talia Lakritz. Klaus Zerta, age 13, won a gold medal as a coxswain in Britain's Lorna Johnstone remains the oldest female Olympian in history at 70 years old. Visit Insider's homepage for more stories. At 13 years old, Donna de Varona was the youngest member of the US swimming team at the Olympics. At the Olympics in Berlin, year-old Marjorie Gestring won a gold medal in springboard diving.
Equestrian rider Hanna is competing at her seventh Olympics and becomes the second-oldest female to compete at an Olympics. Hanna riding Calanta during the dressage individual. Pushing boundaries. The youngest known Olympian to take home a medal was year-old Dimitrios Loundras, who finished third in the team parallel bars at the Olympic Games. But there may have been a younger medalist; according to the International Olympic Committee IOC , a young French boy was a cox for a Dutch coxed pairs rowing team in He took part in the medal ceremony and was photographed.
But, despite years of research, his name and age remain unknown -- he's estimated to have been between 7 and The USA's Marjorie Gestring won gold in the springboard diving event at the Berlin Games, becoming the youngest-ever female Olympic champion at 13 years and days old.
Visit CNN. Oscar Swahn, a Swedish shooter, was 72 years old when he competed in his third and final Olympics in He ended his career with a total of six medals, three of which were gold.
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