List of participation records in the Winter Olympics
The list of participation records in the Olympic Winter Games includes athletes who have shown particularly outstanding performance in the course of the Olympic Winter Games held since 1924 due to their age or the length of their active participation.
Age records
Carl August Kronlund is the oldest participant in the Winter Olympic Games. The curling player won the silver medal for Sweden at the 1924 Winter Games in Chamonix. He was 58 years and 155 days old when he took part in the Olympics. The oldest Olympic champion is Robin Welsh from Great Britain with his gold medal in curling in 1924, which he won at the age of 54 years and 102 days.
Age record | athlete | team | Winter games | competition | Age |
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youngest participant | Cecilia Colledge | Great Britain | 1932 | Figure skating (freestyle) 8th place | 11 years | 73 days
youngest participant | Jan Hoffmann | GDR | 1968 | Figure skating (freestyle) 26th place | 12 years 113 days |
oldest participant | Anne Abernathy | American Virgin Islands | 2006 | Luge fell during training | 52 years 307 days |
oldest participant | Carl August Kronlund | Sweden | 1924 | Curling | 58 years 155 days |
youngest medalist | Kim Yoon-mi | South Korea | 1994 | Short track (season) | 13 years | 83 days
youngest medalist | Scott Allen | United States | 1964 | Figure skating (freestyle) | 14 years 363 days |
oldest medalist | Cheryl Noble | Canada | 2002 | Curling | 45 years 148 days |
oldest medalist | Carl August Kronlund | Sweden | 1924 | Curling | 58 years 155 days |
youngest Olympic champion | Kim Yoon-mi | South Korea | 1994 | Short track (season) | 13 years | 83 days
youngest Olympic champion | Toni Nieminen | Finland | 1992 | Nordic skiing (ski jumping) | 16 years 259 days |
oldest Olympic champion | Raissa Smetanina | United team | 1992 | Nordic skiing (relay) | 39 years 354 days |
oldest Olympic champion | Robin Welsh | Great Britain | 1924 | Curling | 54 years 102 days |
Most frequent participations
So far, the ski jumper Noriaki Kasai is the only athlete to have participated in eight Olympic Winter Games, and another seven. With Noriaki Kasai and Claudia Pechstein these participations are spread over 26 years, with the others over 22 and 24 years respectively.
athlete | team | Participation | sport | comment | |||
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Noriaki Kasai | Japan | 92 94 98 02 06 10 14 18 | Ski jumping | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2014, 1994 in team competition, 2014 in team competition |
Albert Demchenko | Russia | 92 94 98 02 06 10 14 | Luge | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2006, 2014, 1992 for a united team |
Claudia Pechstein | Germany | 92 94 98 02 06 - 14 18 | Speed skating | 5 | 2 | 2 | Most successful speed skater and most successful German at winter games |
Janne Ahonen | Finland | 94 98 02 06 10 14 18 | Ski jumper | 0 | 2 | 0 | |
Syarhej Dalidowitsch | Belarus | 94 98 02 06 10 14 18 | Cross-country skier | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Officially, 24 athletes have so far managed to take part in six different Olympic Winter Games. Luge athlete Anne Abernathy is also listed in the table . The athlete from the US Virgin Islands was unable to take part in the competition when she last competed in Turin because she sustained a hand injury during the training run. At the opening ceremony, she carried her national flag.
Over a period of 30 years, Hubertus von Hohenlohe took part in six Olympic Winter Games. With Colain Victor Coates , Carl-Erik Eriksson and Ole Einar Bjørndalen , only three athletes managed to take part in six consecutive Winter Games over a period of 20 years. For the other athletes there is a period of 18 years because the games in Albertville and Lillehammer are only two years apart.
athlete | team | Participation | sport | comment | |||
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Hannu Manninen | Finland | 98 02 06 10 14 18 | Nordic combination | 1 | 1 | 1 | |
Shiva Keshavan | India | 98 02 06 10 14 18 | Luge | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Anne Abernathy | American Virgin Islands | 88 92 94 98 02 06 | Luge | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2006 did not take part in the competition |
Jochen Behle | / Germany | 80 84 88 92 94 98 | Cross-country skiing | 0 | 0 | 0 | Flag bearer at the opening ceremony in 1998 |
Colin Victor Coates | Australia | 68 72 76 80 84 88 | Speed skating | 0 | 0 | 0 | Standard bearer at the opening ceremony in 1984 |
Michael Dixon | United Kingdom | 84 88 92 94 98 02 | biathlon | 0 | 0 | 0 | Started cross-country skiing in 1984 |
Alfred Eder | Austria | 76 80 84 88 92 94 | biathlon | 0 | 0 | 0 | Father of the biathlete Simon Eder |
Carl-Erik Eriksson | Sweden | 64 68 72 76 80 84 | Bobsleigh | 0 | 0 | 0 | first athlete with 6 participations |
Georg Hackl | / Germany | 88 92 94 98 02 06 | Luge | 3 | 2 | 0 | most successful luge athlete at the Olympic Games |
Raimo Helminen | Finland | 84 88 92 94 98 02 | ice Hockey | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1988 in Calgary |
Hubertus of Hohenlohe | Mexico | 84 88 92 94 - - - 10 14 | Alpine skiing | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Wilfried Huber | Italy | 88 92 94 98 02 06 | Luge | 1 | 0 | 0 | in a two-seater 1994 |
Emese Hunyady | Austria | 84 88 92 94 98 02 | Speed skating | 1 | 1 | 1 | started in 1984 for Hungary |
Marja-Liisa Kirvesniemi | Finland | 76 80 84 88 92 94 | Cross-country skiing | 3 | 0 | 4th | oldest medalist in 1994 |
Harri Kirvesniemi | Finland | 80 84 88 92 94 98 | Cross-country skiing | 0 | 0 | 6th | only individual medal in 1984 over 15 km |
Markus Prock | Austria | 84 88 92 94 98 02 | Luge | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1992 and 1994 |
Sergei Chepikov | Russia | 88 92 94 98 02 06 | biathlon | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1988 for the Soviet Union , 1992 for the United Team |
Gerda Weissensteiner | Italy | 88 92 94 98 02 06 | Bobsleigh | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1994 in luge |
Ilmārs Bricis | Latvia | 92 94 98 02 06 10 | biathlon | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Ole Einar Bjørndalen | Norway | 94 98 02 06 10 14 | biathlon | 8th | 4th | 1 | most successful participant in winter games |
Andrus Veerpalu | Estonia | 92 94 98 02 06 10 | Cross-country skiing | 2 | 1 | 0 | each 2002 and 2006 over 15 km |
Marco Büchel | Liechtenstein | 92 94 98 02 06 10 | Alpine skiing | 0 | 0 | 0 | Standard bearer at the opening ceremony in 2002 |
Mario Stecher | Austria | 94 98 02 06 10 14 | combination | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2006,2010 team, 2002, 2014 team |
Teemu Selänne | Finland | 92 - 98 02 06 10 14 | ice Hockey | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2006, 1998, 2010 |
Todd Lodwick | United States | 94 98 02 06 10 14 | combination | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2010 team |
Due to the war-related cancellation of the Games in 1940 and 1944, the seven athletes who followed succeeded in taking part in the Winter Olympics over a period of 20 years, despite fewer participants.
athlete | team | Participation | sport | comment | |||
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John Heaton | United States | 28 32 |
skeleton | 0 | 2 | 1 | in skeleton in 1928 and 1948, in bobsleigh in 1932 |
Max Houben | Belgium | 28 32 36 - - 48 | Bobsleigh | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1948 in the four-man bobsleigh |
Richard Torriani | Switzerland | 28 |
ice Hockey | 0 | 0 | 2 | |
Stanislaw Marusarz | Poland | 32 36 - - 48 52 | Ski jumping | 0 | 0 | 0 | also cross-country and combination |
Frank Stack | Canada | 32 |
Speed skating | 0 | 0 | 1 | won over 10,000 m in 1932 |
James Brickford | United States | 36 - - 48 52 56 | Bobsleigh | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1948 in the four-man bobsleigh |
Josef Bradl | Austria | 36 - - |
Ski jumping | 0 | 0 | 0 |
- For Greece , Athanasios Tsakiris took part in cross-country skiing in 1988 and in biathlon in 1992, 1994 and 1998 . At the age of 45, he competed in biathlon in his fifth game in 2010.
- Ice hockey player Chris Chelios took part in a total of four games in 1984, 1998, 2002 and 2006 over a period of 22 years. In 2002 he won the silver medal in the USA team.
- With the participation in 1988, 1992, 2002 and 2010 the luge rider Rubén Gonzáles also reached four participations for Argentina in 22 years.
More records
- So far, two athletes have managed to become Olympic champions in two sports at the Winter Games:
- This was first achieved by the Russian Anfissa Reszowa , who won a total of three gold medals in cross-country skiing ( Calgary 1988 , 4 × 5 km relay) and in biathlon ( Albertville 1992 , 20 km and Lillehammer 1994 , 4 × 7.5 km relay).
- the first in the same games and the first in individual disciplines was the Czech Ester Ledecká at the games in Pyeongchang 2018 with victories in alpine skiing (Super-G) and snowboarding (parallel giant slalom)