Amir Khan. He won the Olympic Silver medal for Boxing in the 2004 Athens Olympics aged 17.
Sandra Morgan (later Beavis) was the youngest Australian to win an Olympic Gold Medal. She was 14 years old at the time and won it at the 1956 Melbourne Olympics.
Tara Lipinski was the youngest. thx
World-wide? Not sure. But the youngest BRITISH MALE Olympian was Kenneth Lester, a coxswain in the 1960 Rome Olympics. He was 13 years, 144 days old, and was eliminated early. I wonder who is the youngest Olympian to win a medal... Now, exactly what is a coxswain? PS My spell check says the word coxwain needed an s.
If you cheat in the Olympics you are stripped of your medal.
Sonja henie is a famous figure skater she is now dead but performed in the Olympics and got a gold medal
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Figure skater Peggy Fleming won the only gold medal for the US in the 1968 Winter Olympics.
in 1992 kristi yamaguchi won a gold medal in the olympics
Figure skater Tara Lipinski who won gold in ladies singles, at age 15 years and 254 days, at the 1998 Winter Games in Nagano.
Ice Skater Debbie Thomas was the first African American to win a medal at a Winter Olympics, winning the bronze medal in ladies figure skating at the 1988 winter Olympics. She is now an orthopedic surgeon..
Figure skater Peggy Fleming won the only gold medal for the US in the 1968 Winter Olympics.
Michelle Kwan was a figure skater for the USA. She has been to the Olympics and has won every medal except for the Olympic Gold
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.
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The first woman figure skater in the Olympics was Madge Syers from Great Britain. She participated in the 1908 Games winning the Gold Medal.