Jamaica's youngest Olympic medallist

VCB still Ja's youngest Olympic medallist

Veteran sprint queen Veronica Campbell Brown reigns as Jamaica's youngest Olympic medallist, winning a silver in the 4x100m relay at the 2000 Sydney Olympics. She was 18 years 136 days old.
The now seven-time Olympic medallist eclisped Greg Meghoo by 229 days when he earned a silver in the 4x100m relay at the 1984 Games in Los Angeles.
Campbell-Brown, 33, is hoping to compete in her fifth consecutive Olympic Games this summer in Rio.
The speedster from Clarks Town, Trelawny have three gold, two silver and two bronze medals in the Games and is not planning to hang up her spikes any time soon.
Jamaica boast two other Olympic teen medallist, as Ray Stewart was 19 years and 145 days when he grabbed silver in the 4x100m relay, also in 1984, while Bobby-Gaye Wilkins was 19 years 347 days for a bronze in Beijing in 2008 in the 4x400m relay.
The Olympic Games have a proud history of enormous talented teens excelling at the quadrennial event, predominantly gymnasts, swimmers, divers, and rowers especially in the early 1920s and 1930s.
Few exceptions would include a South Korean taking part in Speed Track Speed Skating in 1994 and an American swimmer competing in 1960 in the freestyle relay.
The youngest Olympian to win a medal, 10-year-old Greek gymnast Dimitrios Loundras, won bronze at the first Olympic Games in 1896 in the men's parallel bars.
For gold, the youngest Olympian was the legendary Donna De Varona, who later became the first female sportscaster in the United States. She set 18 world records in the early 1960s, strongest in the 100m butterfly and 400m medley.
However at 13 she won a gold for the United States as a member of the 4x100m freestyle relay at the 1960 Games in Rome.
The youngest to win an individual gold was American diver Marjorie Gestring, who triumphed in the women's springboard at the 1936 Games in Berlin. She was 13 years 268 days old.
In gymnastics is found the most outstanding teen ever in the Games. The legend from Romania and God's gift to gymnastics, Nadia Comaneci, was the first to achieve a perfect ten in the competition.
She competed in only two Olympic Games, in Montreal in 1976 and Moscow in 1980, at the age of 14 and 18 respectively.
Comaneci won nine Olympic medals over the period -- five gold, four silver and one bronze.
She outdid American swimmer Shirley Babashoff who at 15 and 19 featured at the 1972 and 1976 Games, winning three gold and six silver medals all told.
Babashoff was the most successful US Olympians before the 1990s, despite not winning an individual gold.