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Postás. Ágnes Keleti (née Klein; born 9 January 1921) is a Hungarian retired Olympic and world champion artistic gymnast and coach. She is the oldest living Olympic champion and medallist, reaching her 100th birthday on 9 January 2021. [2][3] While representing Hungary at the Summer Olympics, she won 10 Olympic medals including five gold ...
1921–2021. 100. English footballer [ 21 ] Gretel Bergmann. 1914–2017. 103. German high jumper [citation needed] Elizabeth Williams Berry. 1854–1969.
59 years, 350 days. 1966. Basketball (Men's) Pierluigi Marzorati [4] 54 years. 2006. Basketball (Women's) Nancy Lieberman [5] 50 years.
Mark Andrew Spitz (born February 10, 1950) is an American former competitive swimmer and nine-time Olympic champion. He was the most successful athlete at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, winning seven gold medals, each in world-record time. This achievement set a record that lasted for 36 years, until it was surpassed by fellow American ...
Johanna Quaas (IPA: [joˈhana ˈkvaːs]; née Geißler IPA: [ˈgaɪsˌlɐ]; born 20 November 1925) is a German gymnast who, on 12 April 2012, was certified by Guinness World Records as the world's oldest active competitive gymnast. At the age of 86 when breaking the record, Quaas was a regular competitor in the amateur competition Landes ...
100 m running deer, double shots. Oscar Gomer Swahn (20 October 1847 – 1 May 1927) was a Swedish shooter who competed at three Olympic games and won six medals, including three gold. [1] Swahn holds records as the oldest Olympian at the time of competition, the oldest person to win gold, and the oldest athlete to win an Olympic medal. [2][3]
Gregory Efthimios Louganis (/ luːˈɡeɪnɪs /; [ 1 ] born January 29, 1960) is an American Olympic diver who won gold medals at the 1984 and 1988 Summer Olympics on the springboard and platform. He is the only man and the second diver in Olympic history to sweep the diving events in consecutive Olympic Games.
Pentathlon. James Francis Thorpe (Sac and Fox languages: Wa-Tho-Huk, translated as "Bright Path"; [ 2 ] May 22 or 28, [ 3 ] 1887 – March 28, 1953) [ 4 ] was an American athlete and Olympic gold medalist. A member of the Sac and Fox Nation, Thorpe was the first Native American to win a gold medal for the United States in the Olympics.