Youngest Olympic mountain biking gold medallist
- Who
- Tom Pidcock
- What
- 21:361 year(s):day(s)
- Where
- Japan
- When
- 26 July 2021 BC
The youngest Olympic mountain biking gold medallist is Tom Pidcock (UK, b. 30 July 1999), who won the men’s cross-country aged 21 years 361 days on 26 July 2021 in Izu, Shizuoka, Japan.
Pidcock claimed Olympic gold aged 79 days younger than Jenny Rissveds, who won the women’s cross-country at Rio 2016. Pidcock, who also competes in cyclo-cross and road racing, had suffered a broken collarbone after a crash in May 2021.