As of 2022, who is the youngest ever Winter Olympic gold medallist in the ski jump?
Toni Markus Nieminen (born 31 May 1975) is a Finnish former ski jumper who competed from 1991 to 2004, with a brief comeback in 2016. He is one of the most successful contemporary ski jumpers from Finland, having won both the World Cup overall title and the Four Hills Tournament in 1992, and three medals at the 1992 Winter Olympics.
He remains the youngest ever Winter Olympic gold medallist, at 16 years and 261 days. Additionally, he is known for being the first male ski jumper to land a jump surpassing 200 metres (660 ft), which he achieved in 1994 with a world record of 203 m (666 ft) on the ski flying hill in Planica.
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Anita Clark Morton
Leapy Lee, Did they win in the Ski Jump category though??
Leapy Lee
Leapy Lee, I stand corrected.
Louella Wilson
Bhavana Agarwal, so surely the gender is irrelevant!
Louella Wilson
Leapy Lee, most of us women can count much better than you can read!
Christopher J Voce
Gee, I thought it would have been Eddie the Eagle?
Bhavana Agarwal
Question doesn't ask whether it is a male or a female and still the answer is a male jumper
klmilles
Leapy Lee, but not in ski jumping. Women have only been participating in this sport (or folly, since it involves hurdling downhill and leaping into space, minus a parachute--remember the agony of defeat sequence from "The Wide World of Sports?") since 2014. All female gold medal winners have been in their early 20s, thus far.
But, yeah, as a rule, female athletes tend to get short shrift. Look at how cheerleading is classified, as an example.
Leapy Lee
I believe that there are at least two women who were younger than him who won Winter Olympic gold medals, but I guess women don't count.