Very cool. It would be interesting to also have the ages of the medal winners.
Yes, the average equestrian rider is older than the average Olympian in other competitions.
But how old were their *horses*?
Why tf is shooting a gun an Olympic sport.
The top three are all ones that make sense, but I am floored that a 50 year old skater can compete on an Olympic level!
Where is the long distance type runners?… mostly marathon runners I was looking for… they’re known to be pretty ‘old’ too.
I’m surprised that surfing does not go older, perhaps it’s because the style of riding?
An 11 year old made the olympics?
A lot of these I get, because it might suit a small person benefiting youth or it might not be very physically demanding allowing older people to keep going. I don’t understand the swimming though. How the hell does a 14 year old compete in that? I’d have thought being tall helps have longer strokes and it’s extremely demanding
Break Dancing having a 41 yr old athlete feels so funny to me.
only people over 35 can afford houses and horses
For the first graph, it could have been interesting if you plotted the IQR, to give a sense of the variance in the data.
![[OC] The oldest and youngest athletes in each Olympic sport](https://www.europesays.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/p09w376fn1pe1-1080x1024.png)
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This data looks at the ages of Athletes competing at the Paris Olympics in 2024.Â
Made in R with ggplot2 and the wider Tidyverse, with a bit of cleanup in Adobe Illustrator.
It was collected by Petro (Piterfm) on Kaggle, originally pulled from Olympics.com.
Data sources:
* Petro (Kaggle) [[1](https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/piterfm/paris-2024-olympic-summer-games)]
* [Olympics.com](http://Olympics.com) (Original data source) [[2](https://www.olympics.com/en/olympic-games/paris-2024)]
Very cool. It would be interesting to also have the ages of the medal winners.
Yes, the average equestrian rider is older than the average Olympian in other competitions.
But how old were their *horses*?
Why tf is shooting a gun an Olympic sport.
The top three are all ones that make sense, but I am floored that a 50 year old skater can compete on an Olympic level!
Where is the long distance type runners?… mostly marathon runners I was looking for… they’re known to be pretty ‘old’ too.
I’m surprised that surfing does not go older, perhaps it’s because the style of riding?
An 11 year old made the olympics?
A lot of these I get, because it might suit a small person benefiting youth or it might not be very physically demanding allowing older people to keep going. I don’t understand the swimming though. How the hell does a 14 year old compete in that? I’d have thought being tall helps have longer strokes and it’s extremely demanding
Break Dancing having a 41 yr old athlete feels so funny to me.
only people over 35 can afford houses and horses
For the first graph, it could have been interesting if you plotted the IQR, to give a sense of the variance in the data.
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