the oldest person to win an olympic gold medal
Oscar Swahn Oscar Gomer Swahn (20 October 1847 â€“ 1 May 1927) was a Swedish shooter who competed at three Olympic games and won six medals, including three gold.[1] An elderly but successful competitor, Swahn remains to this day the oldest Olympian at the time of competition, the oldest person to win gold, and the oldest person to win an Olympic medal.[2]
Khashaba Dadasaheb Jadhav After Norman Pritchard who won two silver medals in athletics in 1900, Khashaba was the first individual athlete from India to win a medal at the Olympics.[6] In the years before Khashaba, India would only win gold medals in field hockey, a team sport. He is the only Indian Olympic medalist who never received a Padma Award. Khashaba was extremely nimble on his feet, which made him different from other wrestlers of his time. English coach Rees Gardner saw this trait in him and trained him prior to the 1948 Olympic games.