Joseph Savage who, at 52 years and 267 days, competed in pairs figure skating at the 1932 Winter Games in Lake Placid. He and his partner, 39 year old Gertrude Meredith, finished 7th.
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there was no 2008 winter Olympics. There was a 2008 SUMMER Olympics but not winter. There were a bunch of different people that won different medals in different sports in the summer '08 Olympics, not just one person winning the whole thing.
Bjørn Dæhlie
Carl August Kronlund of Sweden. Carl was 58 years, 155 days old when he competed with the Swedish team in curling at the 1924 Winter Games in Chamonix. He and the team won a silver medal.
Sports that were competed at the first Winter Olympics (1924) that are still being competed today (2010) are bobsleigh, figure skating, ice hockey, ski jumping, speed skating, nordic combined, and cross country skiing. Curling was also competed at the 1924 Winter Olympics but did not return until the 1998 Winter Olympics.
The Winter Olympics were first held in 1924 in the French resort of Chamonix and were imagined by Eugene Brunettea d'Usseaux (ITA) in 1911
Winter Olympics , summer Olympics and Para Olympics .
In the winter olympics.
There were no Winter Olympics in 2009.
There were no Winter Olympics in 2009.
There were no Winter Olympics in 1987.
There were no Winter Olympics in 2007.