10 youngest Olympic medal winners

By Anuradha Santhanam

Modified May 08, 2016 12:06 IST

Dimitros Loundras Olympics — Loundras (C) was 10 when he won a team medal

Kim Yun-Mi

Korea speed skating olympics — South Korea’s speed-skating team won gold in 1994

Short-track speed skater Kim Yun-Mi of South Korea took part in the 1994 Winter Olympic Games in Lillehammer, Norway at the age of thirteen. She was immensely successful, winning gold in the 3000m relay event that year.

In doing so, Kim became the youngest ever female Olympic Gold medal winner – and the youngest ever winner of a medal at the Winter Olympic Games. Both records still stand, and are yet to be broken two decades on.

Kim followed up that 1994 performance with gold in the same event at the 1998 Olympics in Nagano, Japan.

The 35-year-old now teaches speed skating in the United States of America.

Edited by Staff Editor