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The oldest Olympic medalist
Steven LynchSeptember 14, 2013
Who is the oldest track and field Olympic medallist? asked Graham Foster
This record is held by Britain's Terence "Tebbs" Lloyd Johnson, who won the bronze medal in the 50-kilometre walk at the 1948 London Olympics when he was 48.
The oldest gold medallist in the athletics events is Pat McDonald, who was 42 when he won the 56-pound weight throw at Antwerp in 1920: before the Great War McDonald had also taken gold in the shot putt in Stockholm in 1912.
The oldest woman to win a medal is the Jamaican sprinter Merlene Ottey, who took the bronze - her ninth Olympic medal, none of them gold - in the 100m at Sydney in 2000, when she was 40.
The oldest female gold medallist was also from those Sydney Games: 39-year-old Ellina Zvereva from Belarus won the discus.
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