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TIL the oldest Olympic gold medalist was Swedish shooter Oscar Swahn at the 1912 Olympic Games in Stockholm, aged 64 years 258 days, and eight years later, he won a silver medal to become the oldest Olympic medalist—a title he still holds.

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