![]() ![]() For Germany it's the same, and the Danish team has an average of 28. ![]() The French team average is 27 – a year above the overall figure. The youngest Olympian is a Togan women's 50m freestyle competitor, Adzo Kpossi, who is just 13, one of 33 Olympians aged 15 and under.Īnd it varies by country too – with the caveat that this probably reflects the sports they are entering. But within that there are still some surprises: mountain bike cycling for instance, has an average age of 33 and for beach volleyball it's 29. ![]() Look at each sport and there's a lot of variation too: rhythmic gymnastics has an average age of 19 – while for the equestrian events it's 38. Most over-50s are competing in equestrian and shooting but there is a 52 female rower, Canadian Lesley Thompson-Willie who has won silver in the women's eight – and Britain's oldest gold medal winner, 54-year-old Nick Skelton. ![]() There are two 65 year-olds: Afanasijs Kuzmins is a Latvian shooter and Ian Millar, a Canadian show jumper. If you imagine that all Olympic athletes are young, then you would be wrong – while the average is 26, there are 187 athletes over 40 at this year's games, including the eldest, Hiroshi Hoketsu, 71 years old, who competed in the dressage for Japan. Olympic athletes interactive by height, age and weight. And if you think you know what it takes to compete in the Games, you may find some of the results surprising. We analysed the 10,383 Olympians taking part in the London 2012 Games to see the spread of ages, heights and weights across the sports for men and women. Thanks to the first comprehensive scrape of every London 2012 Olympic athlete we can create a real picture of what kinds of people compete in the games. Do you look like an Olympic athlete? If you are aged 26, weigh 72.8kg and are 176.9cm tall then the answer is yes. ![]()
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