Through the 2008 Games in Beijing, that is Tracey Wickham who was 13 years, 239 days old when she competed in women's 400 meter freestyle at the 1976 Games in Montreal. She did not win a medal.
There are alot of athletes that went to the Beijing 2008 Olympics. 433 athletes went to the 2008 Olympics, which is the second most amount of Australian athletes that have gone to the Olympics Athens was first with 482 Australian athletes that went.
It's hard to answer this question. Not all swimmers attending the Olympics have to make the qualifying times. The Olympics awards wild card entries to countries without developed swimming programs. So there may be young swimmers competing who are not at the elite level. However, here is other trivia on young swimmers at the Olympic Games: The youngest swimmer ever to win a medal (as well as youngest to ever win a gold medal) is Kyoko Iwasaki of Japan who won the 200 meter breaststroke at the 1992 Barcelona Games. When she won, she was 14 years and six days old. She broke the previous record for youngest ever medalist, which was held by Krisztina Egerszegi of Hungary, who won the silver medal in the 100 meter backstroke at the 1988 Olympics in Seoul. The youngest male swimmer ever to win a gold medal was Kusuo Kitamura, who won the 1500 meter freestyle at the 1932 Olympics in Los Angeles at the age of 14 years and 309 days. Michael Phelps was the youngest Amercan male qualify for the U.S. Olympic team in 68 years when he went to the 2000 Games in Sydney at the age of 15.
There were 433 athletes that were in the Australian Olympic team went to the 2008 Beijing Olympics Games.
umm......... i am a swimmer i went to the finallys
The swimmer in question was nicknamed Eric the Eel. He competed in the 100m freestyle heats at the Sydney olympics. Although only 3 competitors were in the race, 2 of them were disqualified for false starts. Eric went on to win the race to much applause from the crowd. He set a national record for the event, but failed to cement a place in the semi-finals.
My great grandfather went.
Why is Michael Phelps famous?!?! Where were you during the 2008 Summer Olympics?!?! He is the most decorated Olympian because he won 8 gold medals and broke 7 world records in Beijing. He now has about 16 career medals.
he first went to the olympics in 2004
went to the toilet
she went to retire
there was a bomb
The Summer Olympics occur every 4 years, and the same goes for Winter Olympics; except Winter Olympics take place always 2 years after the Summer Olympics. For example, Summer Olympics went to Beijing in 2008, Winter Olympics went to Vancouver in 2010, and Summer Olympics will come back on in 2012 in London.