Youngest individual gold medallist at a Winter Olympic Games
- Who
- Tara Lipinski
- What
- 15, 255 year(s):day(s)
- Where
- Japan (Nagano)
- When
- 20 February 1998
The youngest individual gold medallist at a Winter Olympic Games is Tara Lipinski (USA, b.10 June 1982), who was aged just 15 years 255 days when she won the Ladies' singles figure-skating event in Nagano, Japan, on 20 February 1998.
Lipinski had already become the youngest figure skating World Champion a year before in Lausanne.
The gold in 1998 was her only Olympic medal.
She retired from competitive figure skating in 2002.