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She is the only gymnast ever to compete in eight Olympic Games, and is one of only two female gymnasts to compete at the Olympics under three different national teams: the Unified Team in 1992; Uzbekistan in 1996, 2000, 2004, 2016 and 2020; and Germany in 2008 and 2012.
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.
Czech gymnast Věra Čáslavská, who followed Latynina to become a two-time Olympic all-around champion, was 22 before she started winning gold medals at the highest level of the sport, and won her final Olympic all-around title at the age of 26. [3] In the 1970s, the average age of Olympic gymnastics competitors began to gradually decrease.
Oksana Chusovitina's time as an Olympic athlete is over. After a professional career that lasted nearly 35 years and spanned eight Olympic Games, the 48-year-old's dream of making a ninth Olympics ...
Agnes Keleti, the world's oldest living Olympic gold medallist and a Holocaust survivor, has died at the age of 103. Five-time Olympic champion Hungarian gymnast Keleti won her first gold aged 31 ...
When she died on Thursday, Ágnes Keleti was the oldest living Olympic gold medallist, at 103 years old. These days, Olympic gymnasts in their mid-20s are seen as old. But Keleti competed in her ...
Ágnes Keleti (née Klein; 9 January 1921 – 2 January 2025) was a Hungarian and Israeli artistic gymnast and coach, who won multiple Olympic medals. [2] She was the oldest living Olympic champion and medallist, reaching her 100th birthday on 9 January 2021.
There is no maximum age restriction, and some gymnasts compete well into their 20s. The oldest female gymnast competing in senior international events in 2023 is Uzbekistan's Oksana Chusovitina, [15] (b. 1975) who was 46 years, 1 month old at the 2020 Summer Olympics. She was 17 years, 1 month old at her first Olympics, the 1992 Summer Olympics.