Teresa Edwards of the United States who won gold with the 1984 U.S. women's Basketball team at 20 years, 29 days old.
Teresa Edwards
It is quite impossible to always get a gold Olympic medalist. A world record holder is able to achieve unless there are groups of people that is co-operating together. That is team work.
He broke the Triple Jump World Record and currently still holds it. He was also the Olympic Triple Jump gold medalist in 2000 and 1996 Olympic Triple Jump silver medalist.
Teresa Edwards, USA
they get in the record book
That was 11.0 seconds, a new Olympic and World Record, by Wyomia Tyus of the United States.
Brendan Hansen who was born on August 15, 1981 is a swimmer who specializes in the breaststroke kind of swimming. He is a former world record holder and is a six-time Olympic medalist.
An Olympic record is the greatest achieved in the Olympic games. A world record is the greatest achieved anywhere, ever. In some instances an Olympic record is also the world record.
31 points...US men's record
No they are not the same. A World Record can be broken at any time. Whereas an Olympic Record can only be broken at the Olympic Games (it's a glorified Meet Record.) Keep in mind that a World Record CAN be set at the Olympic Games (which would in turn, automatically break the Olympic Record as well.) A World Record outranks an Olympic Record.
Tom was the youngest ever Olympic competitor outside of Swimming when he competed in the diving contests at age 14 in Beijing 2008.
Yes. The new record becomes both the Olympic Record and the World Record. You will notice this is the case for several events.