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.

As of February 25, 2018

Age record	athlete	team	Winter games	competition	Age
youngest participant	Cecilia Colledge	Great Britain	1932	Figure skating  (freestyle) 8th place	11 years 073 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 083 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 083 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.

Status: February 14, 2018

athlete	team	Participation	sport				comment
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.

Status: February 22, 2018

athlete	team	Participation	sport				comment
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.

Status: February 28, 2010

athlete	team	Participation	sport				comment
John Heaton	United States	28 32 36 - - 48	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 32 36 - - 48	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 36 - - 48 52	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 - - 48 52 56	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)

See also

• List of athletes with the most Olympics

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Olympic statistics on www.sports-reference.com

Web links

• Olympic Lexicon
• The Olympic wintergames