Who is skateboarder Zheng Haohao, youngest athlete at the Paris 2024 Olympics, biography, age and skateboarding career?

11-year-old Zheng Haohao is a young skateboarder from China who is all set to compete in the 2024 Paris Olympics as the youngest Olympian to compete this year. Read more about her below

Interestingly, Greek gymnast Dimitrios Loundras holds the record for the youngest participant in the Olympic Games ever. He was 10 years and 218 days old, dating back to 1896.

Who is Chinese skateboarder Zheng Haohao, the youngest athlete at the 2024 Paris Olympics, biography, age and skateboarding career?

Besides Zheng, other notable teenage athletes at the upcoming Olympics include 16-year-olds Quincy Wilson and Hezly Rivera from the US, and Lola Tambling and Sky Brown from Great Britain.

Zheng Haohao bio and age

Zheng Haohao is a young and rising skateboarder from China who is all set to become the youngest Olympian for China and the youngest at the upcoming Paris 2024 Olympic Games. She is currently only 11 years old but has already gained quite a bit of experience. Haohao started skateboarding at the young age of seven and has since participated in various events.

Zheng Haohao skateboarding trip

Zheng initially took up the sport purely for ‘fun’ after someone suggested it. Two years later, at the age of nine, she represented Guangdong at the 2021 National Games and finished 14^e.

She started practicing at a club run by Chen Wanqin, the father of Chen Ye, an Asian Games champion. According to her former coach Wei Naizhang, Zheng was a quick learner and never gave up easily. Despite her young age, she was extremely focused on skateboarding and often worked on correcting and improving herself.

Zheng rose to prominence in 2022 when she won the women’s park skateboarding event at the Guangdong Provincial Games. She earned her qualification for the upcoming quadrennial event after qualifying series in Budapest and Shanghai. Zheng took a big risk by finishing with 72.6 points in the final round, well past the minimum qualifying cutoff of 67.34 points.

Zheng has the chance to set a major record and become the youngest Olympic champion. If she does, Zheng Haohao will break an 86-year-old record currently held by Denmark’s Inge Sorensen. Sorensen won gold in the 200m breaststroke when she was 12 years and 24 days old, in 1938.

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