Let’s have a look at the top 10 youngest athletes in the Winter Olympics 2022 currently underway in Beijing
The 2022 Winter Olympics which is currently going on in China’s capital Beijing has already witnessed some great events and, most importantly some future stars who are already shining very brightly and are paving the paving for medals at the games for their team.
Full List Of Youngest Athletes In The Winter Beijing Olympics 2022
Kamila Valieva
Kamila at the young age of 15 is the youngest member of the Russian team. She is a prodigy as she holds up tons of records at this age only including the world record in the women’s short program, free skating, and total scores. S
he has nine world records to her name till now in her career. She became the first female skater who broke the 250-, 260- and 270-point lines in the total score that too in one season. Valieva is also the second woman who landed on the quadruple toe loop after training partner and teammate Alexandra Trusova
Alysa Liu
Alysa, the 16-year-old from Team U.S.A is another young teen to look forward to the Olympics along with Kamila Valieva. When she was just 13 years old, she became the youngest person ever to clinch the U.S. Figure Skating Championships. She won again in 2020 and also, in 2021 she secured the pewter medal.
Though this year unfortunately she had to withdraw from the national championships after she was tested positive for COVID-19 despite her being the highest-ranking U.S. woman in the figure skating world during this season.
Matej Svancer
The 17 year Matej is a part of the Austrian Freeski Team. Matej in 2019 secured the first position at the World Rookie Fest that took place in Livorno, Italy. Just at the tender age of 15 years, in the following year, Švancer clinched the Big Air gold medal during the Youth Games in Lausanne, Switzerland. During the 2021 Junior World Championship title he clinched the title in Slopestyle following competitions in Krasnoyarsk, Russia.
Matvei Michkov– The young talent, Matvei from Russia last year when he was 16 years old already etched his name into history by becoming the youngest national team player in the history of both Russia and the USSR.
The young ice hockey player is already being considered by National Hockey League (NHL) teams and, is eager to draft him in 2023 as soon as he turns 18 years of age. They are now looking towards him in the Olympics for paving the way to the medal.
Jordon Stolz
The young talent from the U.S. of the age of 17 became one of the three youngest participants to compete in long-track speed skating during the Winter Olympics. The young talent, Stolz came secured the first position at the U.S. Olympic Speed Skating Trials with an impressive time of 1:07:62. But Stolz impressed the board with the speed he displayed at trials.
Yuma Kagiyama
The 2022 Winter Olympics is the first Olympics for the young prodigy of an 18-year-old Japanese figure skater. Yuma secured a gold medal during the 2020 Youth Olympic Games which was held in Lausanne. The Japanese teen is also trained by his father, who is also a two-time Olympic figure skater Masakazu Kagiyama.
Eileen Gu
Eileen Gu, the Olympic freestyle skier in halfpipe, slopestyle who has represented China during the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics. She has taken part in big air events by representing China since2019. She is also very popular by her Chinese name Gu Ailin.
She etched her name into the records by being the youngest Olympic gold medalist at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics at the freestyle skiing at the young age of 18. Not only this, she is a fashion model as well.
Sofia Nadyrshina
Sofia, who is just 18 years old, has already a lot in her resume as the Russian snowboarder already has a world champion title and thrice junior world champion to her name. Last year, before turning 18, she clinched three gold medals at the International Ski Federation Snowboard and Freeski Junior World Championships. Even, last year she won the gold in the women’s parallel giant slalom event at the International Ski Federation Alpine Snowboard World Cup.
Tessa Maud
The young prodigy of 18 years old finally after a lot of hard work got included in the team U.S for the 2022 Winter Olympics. When she was 8 years, Maud became a member of the Mammoth Snowboard Team. She also clinched two silver medals at the Junior World Championships in 2020 and claimed the fourth position during the 2020 Youth Olympics at the Snowboarding Halfpipe event.
Courtney Rummel
The 18-year-old member of the U.S. Women’s Snowboarding Olympic team has been an x-factor for the team, as she has been shining bright in the 2022 Winter Olympics. The West Bend native first made her entry during the 2018 Junior World Championships in Cardrona where he ranked 15th at the Big Air. Following that year, she made her World Cup Debut in Modena where she ended up at 13th position at the Big Air event.
She finished her first top-10 World Cup top last month at the Mammoth Grand Prix in California with 9th position in the slopestyle event. She also clinched silver in slopestyle during the 2021 US national championships.
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