Oldest X Games medallist

Oldest X Games medallist
Who
Chris Devlin-Young
Where
United States (Aspen)
When
22 January 2015

The oldest X Games medallist is Chris Devlin-Young (USA, b. 26 December 1961), who won the Mono Skier X event aged 53 years 27 days at X Games Aspen 2015 on 22 January 2015.

Paralysed in a plane crash while serving in the United States Coast Guard, Devlin-Young went on to become a two-time Paralympic skiing gold medallist. He beat the previous record for the oldest X Games gold medallist – Angelika Casteneda in the 1996 X Venture Race – by a matter of days.