Chinese skateboarder Zheng Haohao, 11, set for Paris 2024: who are the youngest athletes to take part in the Olympic Games in history?

The Paris 2024 Olympic Games will bring together great sports legends who will continue seeking great success in their careers with other young people who want to make a place for themselves, some of them still at a very young age.

Zheng Haohao to delve into her bag of tricks at Place de La Concorde

One of these young stars who will try to break out in the Tokyo Olympic Games will be Chinese skateboarder Zheng Haohao, who will be one of the youngest participants in history in the Olympic event at only 11 years old.

Haohao, who is China’s youngest Olympian, sealed her ticket for the Games in the Skating Pre-Olympic that took place in Shanghai and Budapest and will participate in a discipline that at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games already brought together the youngest podium in history with the Japan’s Nishiya Momiji, claiming gold at 13 years old, Brazil’s Rayssa Leal, who took home the silver medal also at 13 years old, and Japan’s bronze medal winner Nakayama Funa, the oldest of three at 16 years old.

The youngest Olympians and medal winners in history

Haohao starts with options of becoming the youngest champion at a summer Olympics in history. An honor that, for the moment, belongs to North American Marjorie Gestring, who won gold in springboard jumping at the age of 13 years and 268 days at the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games.

During the Tokyo 2020 Games, 12-year-old Kokona Hiraki became the youngest Olympic medalist in 85 years, winning the silver medal in the women’s park final.

Whatever happens in Paris, Haohao won’t become the youngest competitor and medalist in Olympic history as that record remains with Greece’s Dimitrios Loundras, who was a sprightly 10 years 218 days when he picked up a bronze in the team event at the 1896 Games in Athens.