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.
Dimitrios Loundras was 10 years, 216 days old when he competed for Greece in team parallel bars gymnastics at the 1896 Games in Athens.
I think 15 is the youngest. (figure skating)
francesco raso
14
12, he is the youngest athlete to compete in olympics history.
Tom Daley is the youngest British olympiad at 14.hes a diver
He Kexin
The youngest male participant in the Beijing 2008 Olympics probably is English diver Thomas Dalay, born in 1994. Francoise Pardos
Bob Marley your welcome
It would be one of the girl gymnasts.
Inge Sørensen of Denmark was the youngest girl to ever take part in the Olympics. She was 12 yrs, 24 days old when she won a bronze medal in the 200m Breaststroke in 1936.
A girl from Hungary thats all i know
13... she competed in the athens olympics