Who is the oldest sportsman who won gold(s)at the Olympics?
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Oscar Swahn of Sweden was a shooter who competed at three Olympic games, and won several medals. When the 1912 Summer Olympics came to his native country Sweden, he was a member of the single shot running deer team, which won the gold medal. He also won bronze again at the individual double shot running deer event, but he came fifth in the individual single shot event, which was won by his son Alfred Swahn. At 64 years, he became the oldest golden medalist ever, which he still remains up to today.
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Teddy Sheringham of West Ham is the oldest player playing in top class soccer. He will be 40 this year and West Ham have just given him another years contract.
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The oldest player in the world is impossible to find with millions playing all over the world.\n\nBut;\nThe Oldest Player In A Soccer World Cup Match\nThe oldest is Albert Roger Milla (b. 20 May 1952) for Cameroon v. Russia on 28 June 1994, aged 42yr 39days. During this match he also scored making him the oldest scorer in the finals. Africans are very proud of Albert Roger Milla. The people of Cameroon voted him best player of all time and he was awarded African footballer of the year in 1976 and in 1990. In his many years playing soccer, Albert Milla has seen big changes in the soccer scene - some of which he's not very happy about. "In our time you played with great individuals who could handle the ball, but now many players, if not all, think initially of their pocket before football," he says
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Eddie Eagan, who had been an Olympic champion in boxing in 1920, won the gold in the men's bobsled event during the 1932 Lake Placid Games to become the first and so far only Olympian to have won gold medals in both the Summer and Winter Olympics.
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the oldest ever was qb/kicker george blanda at 48. the oldest player currently playing who hasn't retired is eagles punter sean landeta, who is currently 44. he was born in january 1962\nSource: www.faqfarm.com/Q/Who_is_the\n_oldest_active_NFL_player\n\nwww.nfl.com/teams/story/\nMIN/5741932
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The oldest player ever to play was Roger Milla of Cameroon in the year 1994.  He is also the oldest to score a goal.  He was 42 years and 39 days old.  Please go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIFA_World_Cup for more details.  When you are there on the page, scroll almost all the way down.
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The best site is Sportline. you can have the medal by date, by sport, by country. You have a list with multiple medal winner (which is top by Cindy Klassen) plus a review of each winner of each olympics since 1924. So you can know that Johan Gröttumsbraaten from Norway has won a bronze medal in 1924.
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Very difficult to break it down to one single event so, I'll give you my top 10 in order of peference:\n\n10.  Edwin Moses, who won gold medals in the 400-meter hurdles at the 1976 and 1984 Summer Olympics. Between 1977 and 1987, Moses won 107 consecutive finals (122 consecutive races) and set the world record  four times.\n\n9. Javier Sotomayor, who is the only man to exceed 8 foot in the (8'-½ in,2.45 meters ) in the High Jump, when  he set the world record on July 23, 1993 in Salamanca, Spain.\n\n8. Carl Lewis, matching Jesse Owens mark of 4 gold medals in a single Olympiad, the '84 Los Angeles Games.\n\n7. Carl Lewis, matching Al Oerter's feat of winning 4 gold medals for the same event in 4 consecutive Olympiads, when he won the long jump in the '96 Atlanta Games, matching his efforts in '84, '88 and '92.\n\n6. Michael Johnson winning both the 200m and 400m races in a single Olympics, during the 1996 Atlanta Games.  He easily captured the 400m Olympic title with a time of 43.49 beating Roger Black of Great Britain by almost one second. At the 200m final, Johnson achieved a peak speed of over 40 km/h (25 mph), and finished the race in 19.32 shattering the world record by a third of a second.\n\n5.  Al Oerter became the first track and field athlete to win consecutive gold medals for the same event over the period of FOUR Olympiads. Oerter, won the Discus thow at the '56, '60, '64 & '68 Olmpics.\n\n4. Jim Thorpe's perfomance at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics. Along with the decathlon and pentathlon, Thorpe contested the long jump and high jump as well, but his first event scheduled was the pentathlon. Thorpe was the class of the field, winning four events. He placed only third in the javelin, an event he had never done before 1912. \n\nThe same day he won the pentathlon gold, Thorpe qualified for the high-jump final. In that final, he placed fourth, and took seventh place in the long jump. Thorpe's final event was the decathlon, where tough competition from local favorite Hugo Wieslander was expected. But Wieslander was no match for Thorpe either, finishing some 700 points behind. Thorpe placed in the top four of all ten events.\n\n3. Jessie Owens. But not for winning the 4 Olympic Gold Medals in the 36' Games, but for an extraordinary day that took place a year earlier. In a span of 45 minutes on May 25, 1935 at the Big Ten Championships in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Owns tied the record for the 100 yard dash, set world records in the long jump, 220 yard dash, and 220 yard low hurdles. With the 220 times bettering the records for 200 meter equivalents, Owns set or tied SIX World record in less thane ONE hour.\n\n2. On May 6, 1954 during a meet between British AAA and Oxford University, Roger Bannister broke the 4-minute barrier;  with a time of 3 min 59.4. \n\n1. Bob Beamon's World record jump at the 1968 Mexico City Olymipic Games. Although Beamon was a favorite, his jump was completely unexpected.  From 1935 to 1968, the long jump world record had increased only 8.25" from 26' 8'-1/2 to 27' 4-3/4. With a single jump, Beamon added nearly 22" to the record in a single day.
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The site listed below states:\n'According to legend, the ancient Olympic Games were founded by Heracles (the Roman Hercules), a son of Zeus. Yet the first Olympic Games for which we still have written records were held in 776 BCE (though it is generally believed that the Games had been going on for many years already). At this Olympic Games, a naked runner, Coroebus (a cook from Elis), won the sole event at the Olympics, the stade - a run of approximately 192 meters (210 yards). This made Coroebus the very first Olympic champion in history. \n\nThe ancient Olympic Games grew and continued to be played every four years for nearly 1200 years. In 393 CE, the Roman emperor Theodosius I, a Christian, abolished the Games because of their pagan influences.\nApproximately 1500 years later, a young Frenchmen named Pierre de Coubertin began their revival. Coubertin is now known as le Rénovateur. Coubertin was a French aristocrat born on January 1, 1863.'
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Lynn Davies had the meet of his life at the '64 Olympic Games where he won the long jump Gold Medal, with a leap of 26'-5.75" (8.07) over the favored and defending Gold Medalist and world record holder, American Ralph Boston. \n\nDavies also competed in the open 100m dash at the 1964 games. \n\nHe was also on hand when Bob Beamon jumped 29'-2.5" in the '68 Mexico City Games. He was reported to have said to Beamon, "You have ruined this event. I can't go on, we'll all look silly." I believe he was 9th in Mexico City.
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The goalkeeper Edwin Van der Sar is the oldest current Manchester United Player at 35 years old, 36 at the end of October this year.
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Roger Milla of Cameroon in USA'94 is the oldest player to compete. Italy's Dino Zoff who kept goal in the 1970 Final in Mexico, is the oldest captain at 40 in 1982 to lift the trophy.
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Mark Spitz - he won 7 gold medals at the 1972 Munich games and broke all 7 world records.
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Ive got a different answer from the one above.\nYoungest referee would be Juan Gardeazabal, from Spain, in 1958 World Cup. He was 24 years and 193 days old at the time.\n\nAs for the oldest, my source agrees with the one above for the person (George Reader) and World Cup, but not for the age, which would be 53 years and 23 days old.
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Yes. Australia is the Gold medallist of Athens 2004 Summer Olympic.
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Oldest player to have played in the World Cup is Cameroon's Roger Milla. He was 42 years and 39 days old when he played against Russia in 1994.
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International Olympics Committee 21yrs (1980-2001)\nHe actually stepped down in 2001. A day before he turned 81.