Not only adult athletes became winners of the Olympic Games, but also very young ones. Their stories of victories will inspire you and your children to new achievements.
The youngest Olympic medalists of the late 19th - mid-20th centuries
In the late 19th - mid-20th centuries, there were no age restrictions for those who wanted to take part in the Olympic Games. It was then that very young athletes rose to the victory podium.
Marcel Depaye
This boy deserves the title of the youngest Olympian in history. In 1900, Marseille represented the Dutch team in rowing and held the helmsman position in a two-man boat. It is impossible to say exactly how old the boy was at the time of the competition, it is assumed that 8-10. Such a young athlete happened to be a participant in the Summer Olympics in Paris by accident.
According to one of the versions, France was represented in rowing by 5 crews - twos. The French cheated and replaced the helmsmen with local boys. Thus, the weight of the boats has been reduced. The main rivals of the French, the Dutch, were indignant, because their helmsman weighed 60 kilograms. However, this fact did not prevent the Netherlands team from winning gold. In the final race, the Dutch change the heavy helmsman to Marseille. Thanks to the French for the idea. But Marcel Depaye did not make the list of winners and did not receive any awards.
Dimitrios Lundras
The youngest official the Olympic medalist is a gymnast from Greece - Dimitrios Lundras. In 1896, at the age of 10 years 7 months, Dimitrios competed in the team on the uneven bars at the Olympic Games in Athens. The young gymnast won a bronze medal as part of the team. But Lundras never connected his life with sports, he graduated from the naval school and rose to the rank of admiral.
In 1936, thirteen-year-old American Marjorie Gestring competed at the Berlin Olympics. In the qualifying jumping into the water from the springboard, the athlete from the United States became the second. When performing the final series, Marjorie bypassed her rivals. The last jump played a decisive role. Technically, it was perfect.
Thus, Marjorie became the owner of her first and last Olympic gold medal. The athlete has repeatedly won the US championships, but no longer participated in the Olympics. Because of
World War II, the 1940 Olympics were canceled. And in 1948 Gestring did not qualify for the Olympic Games.
Another young swimmer, 12-year-old Inge Sørensen from Denmark, took part in the same Berlin Olympics (1936). From the age of 8, the girl went in for swimming. And four years after the start of training, Inge became the owner of an Olympic medal. She won bronze in the 200m breaststroke.
Inge is considered the youngest Olympic medalist in individual programs. In an older age, Inge several times became the owner of the champion title of Denmark, Europe, set four world records, but did not climb the Olympic podium anymore.
The youngest among the participants in the Olympic Games in Rome in 1960 was the swimmer Donna Elizabeth de Varona from the United States, she was 13 years old. Donna participated in the qualification and came to the finish line first. In 1964, she again competed at the Olympics, where she won two gold medals in the 400-meter complex swimming and in the 4 × 100 m freestyle relay.
In addition to victories at the Olympic Games, Donna has 18 swimming world records and the same number of victories in the US championships.
After the end of her career in sports, the American swimmer was active in public: she worked as a sports journalist, presenter, screenwriter, producer of sports programs.
The result achieved by 15-year-old Nadia Comaneci from Romania, it seems, will never be defeated again. In 1992, at the Summer Olympics in Montreal, Nadia received a maximum score from the judges - 10. This happened for the first time in the history of gymnastics. The athlete perfectly performed the program on the uneven bars. As a result, Nadezhda's piggy bank had three gold, one bronze and one silver medals as part of the team.
In 1980, at the Moscow Olympics, the gymnast again rose to the podium of prize-winners, winning two gold and two silver medals. In 1984, Nadya left the big sport. In 1989 she left for the USA and took up a career as a coach.
The youngest Olympic medalists of our time
There is currently no official age limit for the Olympics. However, federations can install it themselves. It all depends on the type of sport and the load. But on average, athletes who have reached the age of 14 are allowed to play. In this section, we will tell you about the youngest Olympic medalists over the past 30 years.
Kim Yoon Mi
Lillehammer. 1994 year. Then 13-year-old Kim Yun Mi won Olympic gold and the title of the youngest medalist in the history of the Winter Olympics. The speed skater competed for the South Korean team. As part of the relay team, she earned a gold medal.
In 1998, at the Nagano Olympics, she again became the winner. In addition to two Olympic medals, Kim Yun Mi has numerous victories at the world championships. The girl finished her sports career at the age of 18. She moved to the USA, where she became a coach.
Tara Lipinski
American Tara Lipinski won Olympic gold at the age of 15. The figure skater took part in the 1998 Winter Olympics and showed the best result in women's single skating. Four years later, Tara left the big sport and linked her career with cinema.
Ruta has been swimming since 5 years. In 2012, at the age of 15, she competed at the Summer Olympics in London. In the final 100m breaststroke, Ruta became the winner and brought Lithuania the first ever medal in this sport.
In addition, she was named the youngest Olympic swimming champion of the last 16 years.
Ruta's career in sports is going pretty well. She won gold at the World and European Championships several times. Also in 2012 Meilutyte was recognized as the person of the year according to the editions "Delfi" and "Valstybė".
Sarah has been skating since she was 3 years old. At 16, the skater competed in the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Olympics. In the short program in figure skating she took fourth place. In the free program, she bypassed her rivals and, in terms of the total points, pulled out from fourth to first place. As a result, Sarah won the Olympic gold medal.
After this Olympics, in her hometown of Great Neck, a parade was held in honor of the winner. Senator Hillary Clinton announced the day on which the American figure skater won the main competition in the world, Sarah Hughes Day. The young Olympic champion received the James E. Sullivan Award for Best Amateur Athlete in the United States of America.
At the age of five, Tatyana told her father that she would carry the title of Olympic champion. And so it happened. At the age of 15, the Ukrainian gymnast became the owner of four medals at once. Performances at the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona brought the gymnast a gold medal in the team all-around, silver on the uneven bars, and bronze in freestyle wrestling. 1992 is considered the peak year in the career of Gutsu - the champion of the Olympic Games, the world, and Europe.
In 1993, Tatyana left for the USA, where she took up a career as a coach for children.
The young figure skater first skated at the age of 4. Hard work and natural flexibility led the athlete to victories. In 2012-2013, Yulia performs and wins at the World and European Figure Skating Championships.
In 2014, at the Olympics, Yulia's performances with complex ideally executed elements brought 20 points to the Russian national team. At 15, Julia becomes the second youngest Olympic figure skating champion in the history of the Winter Olympics. Lipnitskaya Julia received the title of Honored Master of Sports of Russia, Order of Friendship.
The whole world in February this year watched the development of sports events at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi. The Olympic competitions were rich in victories and records. At the games held in Sochi, the youngest Olympic champion was determined. So after the Olympics, Lipnitskaya Yulia is called, a talented Russian figure skater who received a gold medal for participating in team competitions. At that time, Julia was 15 years and 249 days old. But is she really the youngest Olympic champion? Aren't the Russian media wrong?
From the history of the Olympic Games
The very first Olympics in the history of modern sports took place back in 1896. Since then, specially appointed people have been recording all the statistics and results of the competition. Thanks to this information, such information is known - who is the youngest Olympic champion and who is the oldest. Yulia Lipnitskaya is, indeed, one of the youngest participants in the Olympic Games, besides the owner of a gold medal. But Russian media hastily concluded that she was the smallest Olympic champion. In fact, there have been younger winners in the history of the world. Let's remember some of them.
Nadia Comaneci
In the small town of Onesti in Romania, in 1961, a unique girl was born, who became the most titled athlete in the country in its entire history. Nadia won her first when she was only 14 years old. It happened in 1976 at the Montreal Olympics. The girl became a real discovery for everyone, because then she won five medals - three gold, one silver and one bronze. At the next Olympic Games in the capital in 1980, Nadia Comaneci won four more medals - two silver and two gold.
Tatiana Gutsu
Ukrainian and Soviet gymnast, world champion, three-time European champion, four-time Olympic medalist, was born in Odessa in 1976. At the age of six, the girl began to engage in gymnastics, at the age of twelve she became part of the national team of the Soviet Union that participated in the Olympic Games. Tatiana first took part in the world championship when she was fourteen. Then she already became the champion in the team competition. A year later, at the age of fifteen, at the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona, Tatiana Gutsu won two gold medals and one silver and one bronze.
Marjorie Gestring
Marjorie Gestring is a US athlete, the youngest individual Olympic champion for 58 years (until 1994). She won her first gold in 1936 in Berlin at the age of 13. The victory was brought to her by her last diving from a springboard at the Olympics that year. Unfortunately, apart from this medal, Gestring was not able to receive any more. The 1940 Olympics were canceled due to the outbreak of World War II, and the next Olympic Games took place only in 1948. Gestring did not manage to get into the Olympic team then.
Inge Sørensen
A swimmer from Denmark, who at the Olympics in 1936 in Berlin won bronze in the 200-meter breaststroke at the age of 12 years (to be precise, at 12 years and 24 days). Inge from an early age easily competed with adults and experienced athletes. She became the champion of Denmark nine times, the multiple winner of the Scandinavian Games, as well as the European champion in the 200 meters distance. Since 1936, she has been considered the youngest individual competitor in the Olympic Games. Throughout the history of her sports career, Inge has set 14 national records and 4 world records. Some time after leaving the big sport, Inge moved to America and continued her career as a coach.
Kim Yun-mi
The representative of the South Korean sports team at the Olympic Games in the Norwegian city of Lillehammer in 1994 won gold in the three thousand meters relay in short track speed. The young athlete was then only 13 years old and 85 days old. Unfortunately Lipnitskaya Yulia, to this day it is she who is the youngest Olympic champion.
"Oldest" champion
Romanian athlete Lia Manolpu took gold in 1968 at the Olympics, which took place in the Mexican city of Mexico City. She won the discus throw competition at the age of 36 years and 176 days. Until now, Lia Manolpu is the oldest Olympic champion.
There are many examples of how very young athletes became Olympic champions. There are many of them in the entire history of the Olympics, including Sochi.
The youngest champions of the Sochi Olympics
Each Olympiad can boast not only the discovery of new champions, sports achievements of countries, but also the emergence of new very young prize-winners. The Sochi Olympics also summed up the results. It turned out that among its winners, the youngest is the Japanese Ayumu Hirano. At the age of fifteen years and seventy-four days, he won the silver medal in snowboarding.Another medalist is Sim Sook Hee. The athlete represented South Korea in short track speed skating. She won gold at a distance of three thousand meters. The girl at the time of the presentation of the award was only seventeen years and sixteen days old. She also has a bronze medal, won by her at a distance of one thousand meters.
Adelina Sotnikova, representing the host country of the Sochi Olympics, received gold for women's single figure skating at the age of seventeen years and two hundred and thirty-four days. The young athlete became the first Russian woman to win the highest award in this type of figure skating.Seventeen years and two hundred and forty-one days was a short-tracker from South Korea at the time she received a medal in ash for wrestling at a distance of three thousand meters. The name of the winner is Kon Sang Jung.
Seventeen years two hundred and fifty days, that is, only 9 days older - this is the age of a Chinese short tracker named Han Tianyu. For victory at a distance of one and a half kilometers, he received a silver medal.
The youngest freestyle wrestling and boxing champions
Boxing and freestyle wrestling are also included in the program of the Olympic Games. The youngest participant in the Olympics competed in the flyweight in the 1980 games. His surname is Mahabir Singh. This Indian athlete was only fifteen years old and three hundred thirty days old. Mahabir did not receive a medal, but managed to become the fifth. 
Athlete Togrul Asgarov became the youngest winner in freestyle wrestling at the Olympic Games. At the age of nineteen years, ten months and twenty-four days, they won the gold medal. For comparison, it must be said that the average age of participants in freestyle wrestling competitions is twenty six years one hundred fifty three days.
Jackie Fields became the youngest Olympic champion in the history of boxing. His real name is Yakov Finkelstein. In 1924, at the age of sixteen, the young man participated in the Olympics as part of the US national team in the featherweight category. At the Paris Olympics, he managed to become an Olympic champion. Since today, according to the rules, it is possible to participate in the Olympics in this type of competition from the age of eighteen, this Fields record will never be broken.
It is known about another young Olympic champion - a boxer from Mexico Alfonso Zamora. At the 1972 Munich Olympics, the Mexican athlete won a silver medal in the first featherweight title. At that time he was only eighteen years old.
Did Lipnitskaya become the youngest champion?
At the Sochi Olympics, medals were awarded to many very young athletes. The Russian figure skater, who is not yet sixteen, also entered the list of the youngest champions of this Olympics. Her surname is Yulia Lipnitskaya. 
I must say that at this Olympics she did not become the youngest. At the time of the victory, Julia was fifteen years old and two hundred and forty-nine days old. She won a gold medal in the team figure skating competition. The Japanese athlete Ayumu Hirano turned out to be younger than Yulia.
Although Lipnitskaya is not the youngest Olympic champion in the history of the Olympic Games or at the Sochi Olympics, nevertheless, the girl became the youngest champion from Russia in the history of the Winter Olympics.
Youngest Olympic champion in history
For all the years of the Olympic Games, the youngest champion is the Frenchman Marcel Depayet, who participated in the Olympic Games in 1900. The boy was a participant in rowing competitions, played as a coxswain in a pair for the Netherlands national team. How old he was is not known exactly. His age ranged from eight to ten years. A boy took over as the helmsman, as the previous helmsman was too heavy. Depaye won gold. 
Due to the fact that the age of Marcel Depaye is not reliably known, it is quite possible that a boy named Dimitrios Lundras could be in first place in terms of age among the youngest Olympic champions. This young gymnast received a bronze medal while competing on the uneven bars. At the time of the victory he was ten years old and two hundred and eighteen days old.
Now there is an age limit to participate in the Olympics. Because of this, the youngest champions in history will forever remain and will never be defeated. Different sports today have different age limits, but the age limit never falls below fourteen years.
By the way, the fastest athlete in the world, Usain Bolt, according to the site, became an Olympic champion nine times. He runs the hundred-meter distance in 9.58 seconds.
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Briton Anthony Joshua in a dramatic fight that took place in London on Saturday, became the heavyweight champion in two versions. The fight with ex-world champion Ukrainian Wladimir Klitschko brought the “heir to Lewis” the title of WBA Super Champion. Anthony is a young champion by royal standards, but not the youngest.
Moreover, he is not even included in the top ten youngest. Recall that he won his first IBF belt at the age of 26, knocking out American Charles Martin. Sportbox.ru decided to recall by name those who won belts at a more tender age than Joshua.
1. Mike Tyson (20 years old)
Then this 20-year-old boy became the youngest world heavyweight champion in professional boxing history, beating compatriot Trevor Berbick for the WBC belt.
Young Tyson crushed all rivals until 1990, when he sensationally lost to Buster Douglas.
It is noteworthy that at the time of the conquest of the dance, Tyson spent 27 (!) Fights in the pro-ring in a year and a half. In modern times, this is impossible to imagine. The wrong one went heavyweight!
2. Floyd Patterson (21 years old)
A North Carolina resident, the 1952 Olympic champion became world champion on November 30, 1956 at the age of 21, defeating Archie Moore for the title. Later, in 1959, he lost the trophy to Ingemar Johansson. However, in June 1960, he regained his belt, sending Johansson to a deep knockout in the fifth round.
Patterson was coached by one of the most charismatic figures in modern boxing - Cus D'Amato, who later took on the training of Mike Tyson and raised him to be a champion.
He was a very modest and vulnerable person, which is why he received the nickname "Gentleman Boxing": having sent Johansson into a deep knockout, Patterson rushed to help his victim recover.
With Muhammad Ali Patterson met twice - in 1965 and 1972 and lost both times. In the first - by technical knockout in the 12th round. After the second loss, Ali Patterson decided to end his career at the age of 37.
In the last years of his life, Patterson suffered from Alzheimer's disease and prostate cancer. He died in 2006 at the age of 71.
3. Mohammed Ali (22 years old)
The legendary first became world champion in 1962 at the age of 22.
The debut of the then still Cassius Clay in professional boxing took place on October 29, 1960 against Tunny Hansecker. Before the fight, Cassius called him "a bum" and said that he would "lick him easily."
Ali's first championship fight took place on February 25, 1964 against the reigning WBC and WBA champion Sonny Liston. This fight can be considered the starting point of the global "trash current" in the world of professional boxing.
In preparation for the fight, Clay hired a bus and rode it in front of the gym where Liston trains, shouting "Big Ugly Bear." Clay was also waiting for Sonny at the plane that took him to the fight in Miami. He shouted to him: “Champion! Big ugly bear! I'm screwing you right now! " Before weighing in, Clay-Ali shouted the legendary phrase: “Fly like a butterfly. It's a pity like a bee. " Cassius also laughed in the face of Liston and screamed mockingly, "I will eat you alive."
In the third round, there was a turning point - Clay began to openly outplay Sonny. After one of his successful combinations, Liston's legs began to braid, and he almost collapsed on the ring floor. In a completely lost round, Sonny had a cut under his left eye and a hematoma under his right.
Suddenly, in the course of the fourth round, Clay developed vision problems, he experienced sharp pain in his eyes. Cassius saw practically nothing and asked the coach to take off his gloves. However, he released his fighter for the next round with the task of moving around the ring, avoiding Liston's attacks. Clay managed not to miss a heavy blow from the champion, and in the fifth round his vision was restored. Cassius again seized the initiative, and in the break between rounds Liston refused to continue the fight.
4. George Foreman (23 years old)
Ali's sworn rival became world champion at 23. George made his professional debut in June 1969.
His first championship fight took place in January 1973. They immediately became a duel with the undisputed world heavyweight champion Joe Fraser. Fraser was knocked down three times in the first round and three times in the victorious second. The fight became Fight of the Year according to The Ring magazine.
In October 1974, George Foreman went into battle against Muhammad Ali. The legendary Battle in the Jungle also became Fight of the Year, but Foreman lost it.
In June 1976, a rematch took place between Foreman and Joe Fraser. The latter was knocked out in the fifth round. The left-hander nicknamed Big George ended his career in 1997 at the age of 48, losing on points to the famous brawler Shannon Briggs.
5. Joe Louis (23 years old)
He made his professional debut in July 1934 against Jack Crackman, who was knocked out in the first round. In June 1937, at the age of 23, he met James Braddock in the fight for the world title. In the first round, Louis, carried away by the attack, ran into an oncoming uppercut from Braddock, as a result of which he was knocked down. But Louis knocked out his opponent in the eighth round.
The boxer passed away in 1981. In 2003, The Boxing Bible named Luis the # 1 Greatest Puncher of All Time by Ring Magazine.
6. Leon Spinks (24 years old)
He made his debut in January 1977.
In February 1978, the 24-year-old boxer in the eighth fight met with the legendary Muhammad Ali for the title of absolute champion. Ali planned to end his career with this fight, so he did not train very diligently. The press considered the fight a priori unequal. However, Spinks won unexpectedly. The fight received the status of "Fight of the Year" according to The Ring magazine.
7. Michael Moorer (24 years old)
He made his debut in March 1988 at the age of 20. He won 11 knockout bouts in a row, and in the twelfth he became the world champion in light heavyweight in the not the most prestigious version of the WBO at that time.
In 1991, Moorer moved up to heavyweight.
In May 1992, 24-year-old Michael knocked out Bert Cooper in a fight for the vacant WBO heavyweight title.
8. Jim Jeffries (24 years old)
He began his professional boxing career in 1895 at the age of 20. For three years he did not know defeat.
As a result, world champion Robert Fitzsimmons agreed to fight with 24-year-old Jim.
The battle took place on June 9, 1899 in Brooklyn. In the eleventh round, Jeffries knocked out his opponent and became the undisputed world champion. Later, in 1902, Fitzsimmons made another attempt to defeat Jim, but was knocked out in the eighth.
9. Riddick Bowe (25)
Born and raised in the darkest neighborhood of American Brownsville. He was the twelfth of thirteen children in his single mother's family. The father of the future champion was a drunk. He left the family and lived on welfare. One of the Bow brothers died of AIDS, and one sister was stabbed to death by a drug addict while attempting to rob.
Bowe had his debut fight in March 1989, knocking out Lionel Butler in the second round. In 1989, Bowe fought 13 victorious battles.
In 1992, the WBC hosted the four strongest heavyweights of the time. The participants were divided into pairs: Holyfield - Bowe and Lewis - Ruddock. The winners of both fights were to meet each other in order to identify the best boxer.
In October 1992, Lennox Lewis easily defeated Donovan Ruddock by TKO in the second round.
In November 1992, the 25-year-old Bowe took the WBC belt from Holyfield. Evander chose the wrong tactics for that battle - he got involved in an open battle with a more powerful enemy. In the eleventh round, Hall was knocked down. As a result, Bowe became world champion at the age of 25.
However, mindful of his defeat in the final of the Seoul Olympics from Lewis, Riddick refused the final fight with him. The WBC management threatened to strip the brawler of the title.
Bowe called a press conference and in front of reporters, he threw the WBC belt into the trash can. The WBC management immediately removed the boxer from their rankings for good. The WBA and IBF did not take such a step.
10. Max Baer (25)
The American became famous even before he had a championship fight.
In 1933 he met with the favorite boxer of the Fuhrer - German Max Schmelling. Since he was a quarter Jewish, he entered the ring with the Star of David, with which he spent all his subsequent fights. Baer knocked out Schmelling in the tenth round and became one of the symbols of resistance to Nazism.
On June 14, 1934, 25-year-old Baer defeated 125-kg Primo Kamera by TKO, who was on the ring floor eleven times in that fight.
Unfortunately for Joshua, he did not make it into the top ten youngest world champions, claiming only eleventh place. But he can amuse himself with the thought that he is the youngest champion of the XXI century.
Yes they were. Moreover, she is much younger than Yulechka (she is only the youngest among single skaters in the entire history of the Olympics). By the way, one of these sports prodigies, Danish Inge Sørensen, although only a bronze medalist in the 200 m breaststroke distance, pushed the organizers to debate about the need to introduce age restrictions for participants in the Games. At the 1936 Berlin Olympics, Inge performed at the age of 12 years and 24 days. She did not manage to become the Olympic champion, but the Danish woman later won the European Championship, “gave out on the mountain” 4 world records.
By the way, at the XI Summer Games in Berlin she was not the only "youngster" - then the American Marjorie Gestring, who won the gold medal in ski jumping when she was 13 years and 268 days old, became the Olympic champion. The chance to repeat his success was taken away from Gestring by the Second World War - the next Olympics took place only 12 years later.
In the same 1936, but already at the IV Winter Olympics in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, another young star, this time the German figure skater Maxi Herber, won Olympic gold in pair skating with Ernst Baier. At that time, Maxi was 15 years and 128 days, that is, 15 years, 4 months and 5 days. At the same time, let us remind readers that the first Olympic champions in pair figure skating were also Germans - Anna Hübler and Heinrich Burger - in 1908 at the IV London Olympics, when figure skating competitions were first held. Gerber's age record can no longer be broken: according to the current rules, skaters who turned 15 years old on July 1 of the previous year before the Olympics are allowed to the Games.
A little more about Gerber and Bayer. By the time of the 1936 Olympics, they were already titled athletes, winners of national and European championships. This duo became four-time world champions (moreover, in a row from 1936 to 1939) and permanent five-time European champions (in 1935-1939), five-time champions of Germany (in 1934-1936, 1938-1939). Director Leni Riefenstahl starred the couple in her film Olympia. By the way, they remained a couple at the end of their sports career - in 1940, Maxi and Ernst got married, they had three children. True, after 24 years they divorced (and Bayer married a Swedish figure skater with whom he had another daughter), then they got married again ... and divorced again. Both died in Garmisch-Partenkirchen: Bayer in 2001, Gerber in 2006.
Shortly before her death, Maxi claimed in one interview that she and her husband had sold their Olympic medals, and that the proceeds had been sent to the Israeli Foundation for the Victims of the Holocaust.
Well, back to the young Olympians. The youngest athlete in the history of modern Olympics is the Frenchman Marcel Depailler. It is believed because the boy who replaced the too heavy helmsman of the Dutch national rowing team Hermanus Brockmann in 1900 "on the go" did not even receive the award. After the finale, the boy simply left. And the crew of François Brandt for using a foreign athlete received an Olympic award as a mixed team, not a Dutch one. The exact age of Depaye is also unknown. According to historians, Marcel was no more than 10 years old.
But the age of another young medalist is precisely known - a participant in the first Olympics, 1896 in Athens, Greek gymnast Dimitrios Loundras won a bronze medal in the uneven bars when he was 10 years and 218 days old. Lundras is a legendary person: he later became an admiral, took part in the Balkan War of 1912-1913, in the First and Second World Wars.
Well, the youngest (at the age of 13 years and 83 days) winner of the Olympic gold medal in the history of the Winter Games is the Korean woman Kim Yoon-mi. True, in the team competition - the 3000m short track relay in Lillehammer 1994.
Compared to the above, figure skater Tara Kristen Lipinski from the USA (gold in individual competitions among women in Japanese Nagano-1998 at the age of 15 years 255 days), swimmer Rūta Meilutytė from Lithuania (gold in London-2012 100-meter breaststroke at the age of 15 years and 133 days), the absolute sensation of Montreal-1976 gymnast Nadia Comaneci from Romania, who won three gold, silver and bronze at the age of 14 251− 253 days - just "old ladies"!
