<Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> 1908 London </Td> <Td> Double - shot running deer </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> 1912 Stockholm </Td> <Td> 100 m running deer, double shots </Td> </Tr> <P> Oscar Gomer Swahn (20 October 1847--1 May 1927) was a Swedish shooter who competed at three Olympic games and won six medals, including three gold . An elderly but successful competitor, Swahn remains to this day the oldest Olympian at the time of competition, the oldest person to win gold, and the oldest person to win an Olympic medal . </P> <P> At the 1908 Summer Olympics, Oscar Swahn won two gold medals in the running deer, single shot events (individual and team), and a bronze medal in the running deer double shot individual event . He was 60 years old, only a year younger than Joshua Millner, the oldest gold medalist at that time . </P>

The oldest person to win an olympic gold medal