11-year-old Chinese skateboarder Zheng Haohao is heading to Paris 2024: who are the youngest athletes ever to compete at the Olympics?

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

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

One of these young stars who will try to break through at the Tokyo Olympics will be Chinese skateboarder Zheng Haohaowho will be one of the youngest participants in the history of the Olympic event, at just 11 years old.

Haohao, China’s youngest Olympian, secured her ticket to the Games in the Pre-Olympic Speed ​​Skating events that took place in Shanghai and Budapest and will compete in a discipline that already produced the youngest podium in history at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games with the Japanese Nishiya Momijiwho won gold at age 13, Brazil’s Rayssa Leal, who also took home silver at age 13, and Japanese bronze medalist Nakayama Funa, the eldest of three at age 16.

The Youngest Olympians and Medalists in History

Hao Ho starts with options to be the youngest champion at a Summer Olympics in historyAn honor that for the time being belongs to North America. Marjorie Gestringwho won gold in springboard jumping at the age of 13 years and 268 days during the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin.

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 will not become the youngest participant and medalist in Olympic history as that record remains with Greece Dimitrios Loundraswho was 10 years and 218 days old when he won bronze in the team event at the 1896 Games in Athens.