Trivia: Ten-year-old Dimitrios Loundras won an Olympic medal in 1896 in what?
Gymnastics
Diving
Figure skating
Swimming
The correct answer is Gymnastics
So why is this answer correct? : As a pre-teen, gymnast Dimitrios Loundras competed in the parallel bars for the Greek athletic club that captured the team bronze in 1896, at the inaugural modern Olympics in Athens. It was Loundras’ only Olympics, but he later became a member of Greece’s Olympic Committee. The youngest Olympic gold medalist on record is Marjorie Gestring, who won the springboard diving event in 1936 at age 13.