Who was the oldest athlete to win an olympic gold medal ?
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64 years old Oscar Swahn
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Gold medalist Roman Sebrle of the Czech Republic.\nSebrle's wining point total of 8,893 set an Olympic record but was short of his world record of 9,026. \n Bryan Clay USA finished with a lifetime best of 8,820, 160 points more than the 8,660 he scored to win the U.S. trials. \nDmitriy Karpov of Kazakhstan, , 23, won the bronze, with 8,725 points.
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Sheik Ahmed Al Maktoum of the United Arab Emirates has won the first ever Olympic medal for the gulf nation in winning the double trap shooting event.\n\nMaktoum finished tied for 18th in the same event at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney, and earlier in the Athens Games had finished 4th in the single trap shooting event.\n\nThe forty year-old Maktoum, is a member of Dubai's ruling family, and was educated in the United States, at Western States University in Phoenix, Arizona.\n\nNewspapers in Australia after the 2000 Sydney games reported that as the Sheik went through the airport in Sydney, he was asked for his flight number by Australian customs. His short answer was reportedly "No number, no airline, my plane." Customs then asked for the registration number of his plane which he didn't have. He then told customs officials that he had five planes, and he just phoned for one of them to come pick him. A 747 showed up to take him home.\n\nUnited Arab Emirates medal history in various games.
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Emil Zatopek from Czechoslovakia won the gold medal with Reinaldo Gorno (Argentina) and Gustaf Jansson (Sweden) came in taking the silver and bronze medals respectively.
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Duncan won the gold medal in the 200 meter freestyle and established a world record time of  1:47.25.\n\nHe also won the silver medal in the 400 meter freestyle with a time of 3:47.15. Uve Dassler won the gold medal with a world record time of 3:46.95
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Four athletes have won 9 gold medals:\n\nPaavo Nurmi (Finland), athletics, 1920-1928.\nLarisa Latynina (USSR), artistic gymnastics, 1956-1964.\nMark Spitz (USA), swimming, 1968 and 1972.\nCarl Lewis (USA), athletics, 1984-1996.\n\n\nMost total medals -- 18 by Larisa Latynina (USSR), artistic gymnastics. 9 gold, 5 silver, 4 bronze
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You didn't specify medalist or competitor...so...\n\nYoungest Individual Olympic Champion\n\nUSA's Marjorie Gestring is the youngest winner of an individual Olympic event. She won the springboard diving title aged 13 years and 268 days ...\n\nYoungest Olympic Athletics Gold Medalist\n\nThe youngest Olympic track-and-field gold medalist was Barbara Pearl Jones (USA, b. March 26, 1937) who, at 15 yr. 123 days, was a member of the ..
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Thorpe is the best between those 3. Look at what he have accomplished. The world records he broke. The gold Medal and everything else... Thorpe is the BEST
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Oldest player: Roger Milla (Flag of Cameroon Cameroon), 42 years and 39 days, Cameroon vs Russia, 1994 World Cup.
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There have been 7 Egyptian Olympic Gold Medalists\n\n1928 ~ El Sayed Mohammed Nosseir - Weightlifting\n\n1928 ~ Ibrahim Moustafa - Weightlifting  \n\n1936 ~ Khidr El-Touni - Weightlifting \n\n1936 ~ Anwar Ahmed - Weightlifting\n\n1948 ~ Mahmoud Fayyad - Weightlifting\n\n1948 ~ Ibrahim Shams - Weightlifting\n\n2004 ~ Karam Ibrahim Gaber, 96 kg (211 lb) Greco-Roman wrestler
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As a pro Cus D Amato, as an amateur I don't know.  He was very talented even at a young age when he won the Olympic gold medal in 1952 Helsinki Olympics.
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Eddie Eagan, who had been an Olympic champion in boxing in 1920, won the gold in the men's bobsled event during the 1932 Lake Placid Games to become the first and so far only Olympian to have won gold medals in both the Summer and Winter Olympics.
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The site listed below states:\n'According to legend, the ancient Olympic Games were founded by Heracles (the Roman Hercules), a son of Zeus. Yet the first Olympic Games for which we still have written records were held in 776 BCE (though it is generally believed that the Games had been going on for many years already). At this Olympic Games, a naked runner, Coroebus (a cook from Elis), won the sole event at the Olympics, the stade - a run of approximately 192 meters (210 yards). This made Coroebus the very first Olympic champion in history. \n\nThe ancient Olympic Games grew and continued to be played every four years for nearly 1200 years. In 393 CE, the Roman emperor Theodosius I, a Christian, abolished the Games because of their pagan influences.\nApproximately 1500 years later, a young Frenchmen named Pierre de Coubertin began their revival. Coubertin is now known as le Rénovateur. Coubertin was a French aristocrat born on January 1, 1863.'
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She did retire shortly after the 2004 Athens Olympics, after playing in some of the games of the farewell tour or whatever it was called.  She would have been 32 years old.  That was a sad day when Mia Hamm retired :(
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You can find information on all the Olympic medalists here:\n\nhttp://www.olympic.org/uk/athletes/results/search_r_uk.asp
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I guess Jacque Jones -- went 15 for 38, with 5 HRs and 13 RBIs in the Olympics.\nBest pitcher was R.A. Dickey -- 2-0 with 3.00 ERA in 2 games.
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The oldest player to play in the World Cup was Roger Milla of Cameroon. During the game against Russia in 1994 he was 42 years and 39 days old. He hit a goal in that match too.