<Tr> <Th_colspan="3"> Olympic Games </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> 1936 Berlin </Td> <Td> 3 m springboard </Td> </Tr> <P> Marjorie Gestring (November 18, 1922--April 20, 1992) was a competitive springboard diver from the United States . At the age of 13 years and 268 days, she won the gold medal in 3 - meter springboard diving at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, making her, at the time, the youngest person ever to win an Olympic gold medal . (She remains the second - youngest winner .) A multi-time national diving champion in the United States, she was given a second Olympic gold medal by the United States Olympic Committee after the 1940 Summer Olympics were called off due to the advent of World War II . Gestring attempted to return to the Olympics at the 1948 Games, but failed to qualify for the US team . She has been inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame and the Stanford Athletic Hall of Fame . </P> <P> Gestring won her first major title at the Amateur Athletic Union meeting at Chicago in 1936 . </P>

The youngest person to win olympic gold medal