Zheng Hao Hao, Canadian Irving, skateboarder, first time equestrian
“I want to show that I can skateboard well even though I am young. I also want to achieve my dream of winning a medal.”
Chinese skateboarding national team member Zheng Haohao, the youngest (11 years old) among the 2024 Paris Olympics participants.
China’s national skateboarding team “girl” Zheng Haohao shared her thoughts on competing in the 2024 Paris Olympics in an interview with Hong Kong media outlet the South China Morning Post. At 11 years and 11 months old, Zheng Haohao is the youngest athlete competing in the Paris Olympics. Zheng Haohao, who started skateboarding at the age of 7, emerged as a prodigy by winning domestic skateboarding competitions at the age of 10. Baidu, China’s largest portal site, lists Zheng Haohao as a Korean. Skateboarding, which was first
adopted as an official event at the 2021 Tokyo Olympics, is mainly participated by athletes in their teens. The youngest participants in the Paris Olympics, Fay Evert (14 years and 8 months, Canada) and Sky Brown (16 years old, England), who came in second and third, are also skateboarders.
If Zheng Haohao wins, she will become the youngest individual gold medalist in the history of the Summer Olympics. The current record is held by Marjorie Gasling (USA), who won the 3m springboard diving event at the 1936 Berlin Olympics at 13 years and 9 months.
The oldest athlete at the Paris Olympics is expected to be Canadian equestrian national team member Jill Irving, who is 61 years and 3 months old. Irving, who is about to participate in her first Olympics, said, “I don’t feel 61 years old, I feel like I’m 31.” According to Spanish media outlet AS, among the athletes aiming to participate in the Olympics, Australian equestrian national team member Mary Hannah (69 years and 7 months old) is older than Irving, but Hannah is registered as a reserve athlete, so she will have to have an athlete from the Australian team suffer an injury or withdraw in order to participate in the Olympics. On the
Korean team, the youngest and oldest athletes, respectively, are high school student Ban Hyo-jin (16 years and 10 months old), a shooter in the women’s 10m air rifle event, and Lee Bo-na (43 years old), a shooter in the women’s trap event. 파워볼사이트
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