#2 Age is just a number
If there are any Olympic records that will never be broken, they would be the following two – the records of the youngest and oldest Olympic medal winners.
Dimitrios Loundras holds the record for the being the youngest ever Olympic medallist. He represented Greece in Athens 1896 and won a bronze medal in the parallel bars team event at the age of 10 years and 218 days. Loundras was a member of the Ethnikos Gymnastikos Syllogos team which finished third among the three teams which participated in the event.
Oscar Swahn represented Sweden in three Olympic games in the years 1908, 1912 and 1920. He won a silver medal in the shooting event known as ‘running deer’, at the 1920 Antwerp Games. He was 72 years and 281 days old at that point of time. The Swede also holds the record of being the oldest gold medalist in the history of the games after he won the gold medal in the same competition at the 1912 games. He has won 3 golds, 1 silver and 2 bronze medals.
