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  • gh
    Administrator
    • Oct 2005
    • 69706
    • west of Westeros

    Youngest U.S. Olympian?

    What U.S. Olympian is said to have been in junior high while competing in the Games?

    (Note: MAY have been in junior high while making the team but moved on to HS before the Games started)
  • gh
    Administrator
    • Oct 2005
    • 69706
    • west of Westeros

    #2
    Re: Youngest U.S. Olympian?

    And I am talking track of course.

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    • Tvarish
      Senior Member
      • Oct 2005
      • 282
      • Las Vegas

      #3
      Re: Youngest U.S. Olympian?

      Barbar Jones who won a relay gold in 52 or 56? Or is she just the youngest gold medalist ever?

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      • gh
        Administrator
        • Oct 2005
        • 69706
        • west of Westeros

        #4
        Re: Youngest U.S. Olympian?

        OK, that was too easy. Name another 15-year old (but who was a few months older than Jones at time of Games).

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        • jhc68
          Senior Member
          • Oct 2005
          • 3316

          #5
          Re: Youngest U.S. Olympian?

          I dunno... but here is an easier one. What MALE made the olympic team at age 17 by achieving a milestone mark that, among Americans, only his two team mates had ever done?

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          • lefterisp
            Senior Member
            • Oct 2005
            • 407

            #6
            Re: Youngest U.S. Olympian?

            Not him again... too much mile talk in this site

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            • gm
              Senior Member
              • Oct 2005
              • 13985

              #7
              Re: Youngest U.S. Olympian?

              How about Cindy Gilbert?
              Marjorie Larney?
              Esther Stroy?

              no, no, wait... Meredith Ellis!

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              • jhc68
                Senior Member
                • Oct 2005
                • 3316

                #8
                Re: Youngest U.S. Olympian?

                Naw, it is not him again. I don't know of any milers who fit the category I described... there may be one but I dunno who!

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                • hj197steve
                  Senior Member
                  • Oct 2005
                  • 856

                  #9
                  Re: Youngest U.S. Olympian?

                  How old is Sellers ? I's love to seem him make the Athens team.

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                  • malmo
                    Senior Member
                    • Oct 2005
                    • 4376

                    #10
                    Re: Youngest U.S. Olympian?

                    >I dunno... but here is an easier one. What MALE made the olympic team at age 17
                    >by achieving a milestone mark that, among Americans, only his two team mates
                    >had ever done?

                    How about Bob Mathias and the Sullivan award?

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                    • jhc68
                      Senior Member
                      • Oct 2005
                      • 3316

                      #11
                      Re: Youngest U.S. Olympian?

                      Old vaulter knows all, as always... anyone with his dating history has to be respected. As for Mathias, had both his teammates won the Sullivan Award? And were they the only Americans to have done so?

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                      • bf
                        Senior Member
                        • Oct 2005
                        • 596

                        #12
                        Re: Youngest U.S. Olympian?

                        In individual event, maybe Cathy Hamblin(b.1/53), Pentathlon at Mexico City? I remember watching her compete here in Albuquerque. She retired, apparently, after '68.

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                        • gh
                          Administrator
                          • Oct 2005
                          • 69706
                          • west of Westeros

                          #13
                          Re: Youngest U.S. Olympian?

                          That's the one.

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                          • Bruce Kritzler
                            Senior Member
                            • Oct 2005
                            • 4965

                            #14
                            Re: Youngest U.S. Olympian?

                            Casey Carrigan, pv, 68 or 72/ was recent hs grad.

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                            • gh
                              Administrator
                              • Oct 2005
                              • 69706
                              • west of Westeros

                              #15
                              Re: Youngest U.S. Olympian?

                              Carrigan (and Rey Brown) '68 were both in the first months of their senior years when they went to Mexico City

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