I believe that would have been Cecilia Colledge, she was 11 years and three months old when she competed in the winter Olympics in Britain 1932. She died April/23/2008 at the age of 87.
Tara Lipinski was the youngest figure skating gold medalist. She won it when she was 15 years old in the 1998 Olympics.
Patrick Chan is an Olympic figure skater. He is currently 23 years old and weighs 148 pounds and is 5'7".
Gymnasts are typically very young, and yes, they are some of the youngest medalists at the Olympics (I assume that is what you are referring to), but the youngest Olympic gold medalist is actually Tara Lipinski. She is a figure skater that won gold in Nagano, Japan in 1998 when she was 15 years old. A gymnast could never beat this age because in order to go to the Olympics in gymnastics, the athlete must be 16 years old.
Kim Yu-Na was born on September 5, 1990. She is currently twenty-three years old. She is the Olympic's champion in ladies figure skating championships.
Tara Lipinski was 15 years old when she won a gold medal for Ladies' Figure Skating at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan. She became the youngest Olympic gold medalist in ladies' figure skating in an individual event.
She was a figure skater. She won a Gold Medal at the 1998 Olympics at just age 15, and holds the record for the youngest woman to ever win an individual event. (A 14-year-old Russian skater became the youngest in a team event in 2014). Lipinski narrowly defeated Michelle Kwan, also of the US, who won the silver in Nagano in 1998.
She was born Dec 18, 1987
If you are fast enough to win selection for the Olympic team, you are old enough.
The youngest athlete at the 2008 Beijing olympic games is probably 14 year old diver from Great Britain, Thomas Daley.
Olympic speed skater Viktor An (Ahn Hyun-soo) is 32 years old (birthdate: November 23, 1985).
1960s Olympic speed skater Lidiya Skoblikova is 79 years old (birthdate: March 8, 1939).
13... she competed in the athens olympics