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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.
She was the oldest living Olympic champion and medallist, reaching her 100th birthday on 9 January 2021. [3] [4] While representing Hungary at the Summer Olympics, she won 10 Olympic medals including five gold medals, three silver medals, and two bronze medals, and is considered to be one of the most successful Jewish Olympic athletes of all ...
Ágnes Keleti, an Olympic gold medal-winning gymnast, has died at the age of 103. She entered her first Olympic games at 31, after injury and the Holocaust stalled her career. Keleti attributed ...
Ágnes Keleti, the oldest living Olympic medal winner and Holocaust survivor, died Thursday morning. The 103-year-old Hungarian died in Budapest, according to Olympics.com.Keleti died after having ...
At 2014 Winter Olympics, Ole Einar Bjørndalen won gold at the 10 km sprint biathlon event, tying the record number of total medals in the Winter Olympics at 12, along with Bjørn Dæhlie, and becoming the oldest Winter Olympics medalist at age 40. [5] Skeleton Oldest skeleton gold medalist 39 Duff Gibson [6] Oldest male skeleton gold medalist 39
In 1956, she became the most successful athlete at the Melbourne Olympics, winning four gold and two silver medals. While she was becoming the oldest gold medalist in gymnastics history at age 35 ...
Keleti earned 10 Olympic medals, five of them gold, at the 1952 Helsinki Games and the 1956 Melbourne Games ... a Holocaust survivor and the oldest living Olympic medalist, has died at age 103 ...
The distance of the marathon at the Olympics has varied in the early years, before being standardized at 42,195 m in 1924, the distance that was run at the 1908 Olympics. In other years, the distances have been: 1896: 40,000 m (approximately) 1900: 40,260 m (25.02 mi) 1904: 40,000 m (24.85 mi) 1912: 40,200 m (24.98 mi) 1920: 40,750 m (25.32 mi)