Olympic Games 101

At the 1908 London Games, Oscar Swahn of Sweden won his first Olympic gold medal in the now-defunct running deer-shooting event. What made this feat notable was that Oscar was 60 years old at the time. But that's not all. Four years later in Stockholm, Oscar captured a gold in the running-deer team event, making him the oldest ever Olympic gold medalist at age 64. But that's not all. At the 1920 Antwerp Games, at age 72, Oscar won the silver in the team shooting event, thus becoming the oldest medalist in Olympic history. Oscar Swahn died in 1927 at age 99.