Athletes as young as 12 have won medals at the Tokyo Olympics. Who are the youngest to ever win?

While the Olympics originally was meant for just amateur athletes to compete, the youth movement has never been more present than this year's Tokyo Olympics.

At age 17, Lydia Jacoby, one of 11 teenagers on the U.S. swimming team, won the 100-meter breaststroke in a race she wouldn't have been in had the pandemic not postponed the Games by a year.

Youth dominated the women's skateboarding competition as the gold, silver and bronze medalists were all under 19 in the park and street finals, led by street gold medal winner and 13-year-old Momiji Nishiya.

At age 12, park silver medalist Kokona Hiraki was already one of the youngest competitors in Tokyo. Had she won gold, she would've been the youngest gold medal winner in Games history.

Here are the youngest medal winners in the history of the Summer Olympics, along with what sport they won and in what Games:

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Dimitros Loundras, 10 years, 216 days: Loundras set the bar high at the inaugural Olympic Games in 1896. While in Athens, he not only became the youngest confirmed Olympian in history, but also the youngest medal winner being a part of the bronze-winning Ethnikos Gymnastikos Syllogos team.

Luigina Giavotti, 11 years, 301 days: Another gymnastics medalist, Giavotti won silver in the team all-around competition with Italy in the 1928 Amsterdam Games. However, she's not the only youngster from that team on this list.

Inge Sörensen, 12 years, 21 days: Sörensen won bronze in the 200-meter breaststroke in the 1936 Berlin Olympics. Her win makes her the youngest individual Olympic medalist since Loundras and Giavotti won on teams.

Ines Vercesi, 12 years, 216 days: Another youth that appeared alongside Giavotti in the 1928 Amsterdam Olympics, Vercesi also won silver for Italy.

Noël Vandernotte, 12 years, 230 days: Vandernotte claims the record as the youngest person to win multiple Olympic medals. He won bronze in rowing for coxed pairs and coxed fours in the 1936 Berlin Olympics for France. He served as the coxswain, the person responsible for steering the boat and instructing fellow rowers.

Carla Marangoni, 12 years, 269 days: The 1928 Italy gymnastics squad was full of youth. Marangoni was the third 12-year-old on the team in Amsterdam to win silver.

Kokona Hiraki, 12 years, 343 days: The youngest medal winner in Tokyo, she also became the youngest Japanese Olympic athlete ever.

Dorothy Poynton-Hill, 13 years, 23 days: The youngest American to ever win a medal. She won silver in 1928 in springboard diving, but her Olympic career didn't end there. She won gold in the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics in platform diving at 17-year-old and once again in the 1936 Berlin Olympics. In Berlin, she also won bronze in springboard diving.

Sky Brown, 13 years, 28 days: The youngest professional skater and youngest Nike-sponsored athlete in the world took bronze in the women's park final at the Tokyo Olympics, as she already was the youngest athlete to ever represent Great Britain in the Olympics.

Rayssa Leal, 13 years, 204 days: The youngest Olympic medal winner in more than 60 years with her silver medal in the Tokyo Olympics and the youngest Brazilian medalist. Had the Olympics not been postponed, she would have been the third-youngest medal winner ever.

Marjorie Gestring, 13 years, 268 days: Gestring holds the record for the youngest gold medal winner. She became the springboard diving champion in the 1936 Berlin Games, the same event Poynton-Hill won bronze in.

Klaus Zerta, 13 years, 280 days: Much like Vandernotte, Zerta was a coxswain, but he won gold, making him the youngest male gold medal winner. He won gold in the 1960 Rome Olympics ffor Germany in coxed pairs.

Momiji Nishiya, 13 years, 330 days: Nishiya's gold medal in Tokyo made her the youngest Japanese gold medalists, third youngest to ever win an event and first ever person to win the women's street skating event.

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This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Kokona Hiraki, Momiji Nishiya, Rayssa Leal, Sky Brown Olympic medals