Steve Hooker swam the 400m relay in 2000 while pregnant - techniclly his child (7 months) was in the pool at the time. Food for thought.
There is no minimum age for some sports in the Olympics. A female swimmer from Cameroon was 12 in 2008, and a female swimmer from Nepal was only 13 in 2016. However, for gymnasts the minimum age is 16 (born before January 1, 2001), for bobsledding it is 14, and for boxing, it is 17.
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Michael Phelps began swimming at age 7 at the North Baltimore Swimming Club.
The minimum age to participate in the Olympics is 15, and you have to be turning 16 that very year. the minimum age is 13 .but that is very rareYou have to be over 18 to be in the Olympics.
No. The 2010 Olympics are Winter Olympics and have no swimming events.
1896 was supposedly when swimming began in the Olympics!
swimming has appeared at every modern Olympics, which started in 1896. Womens swimming was introduced to the Olympics in 1912.
He started swimming at the age of 8 yrs old.
its in the summer Olympics but not the winter Olympics
The age minimum requirement for women's gymnastics is that a female must turn 16 by the end of the calendar year if she wants to compete in the Olympics.
It depends what you are asking, any age can go in a public swimming pool but in new zealand they have to be supervised to the age of eight.
There is no minimum in soccer. The maximum age is 23.A minimum age does not apply to all sports.For the 2016 Olympics, a Nepalese female swimmer was only 13. For the 2008 Olympics, a female swimmer from Cameroon was only 12.However, Olympics gymnasts must be at least 16, i.e. for the Rio games of 2016, gymnasts must have been born no earlier than January 1, 2001. Similar minimums are age 14 in bobsledding, and age 17 in boxing.