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On 8/29/2022 at 2:20 PM, hckošice said:

Is a chance to find who was the tallest and who was the shortest Olympic champion between men and women in all modern-Olympic era history ? Likewise, who was also the heaviest and who was the lightest in both men and women in the history?

 

I can not find the answer anywhere.

I'll take a stab at this.  For men, the shortest gold medalist I'm sure is Joseph DePietro :USA  WL 1948 gold medal in bantamweight.  He was 1.40 metes tall.  The tallest is Arvydas Sabonis :URS  BB 1988 then bronze 1992 for :LTU  listed at 2.21 m.  

For Women, the tallest I'm sure is Uljana Semjonova :URS (  :LAT  nationality) BB 1976 and 1980 listed between 2.10 and 2.16.  The shortest is Mariya Filatova :URS Gymnastics 1976 and 1980, 1.36 meters tall.  Filatova is also likely the lightest listed at 30 kg.  

 

For men, the heaviest gold medalist is probably Leonid Zhabotynsky  :URS 1964 and 1968 WL listed at 163 kg.  The heaviest woman is Zhou Lulu   :CHN 2012 WL at 133 kg.

 

 

Actually, the shortest and lightest men's gold medalist may be the unknow cox of the 1900 pairs event, thought to be around 11 years old. 

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4 hours ago, Triplecast said:

I'll take a stab at this.  For men, the shortest gold medalist I'm sure is Joseph DePietro :USA  WL 1948 gold medal in bantamweight.  He was 1.40 metes tall.  The tallest is Arvydas Sabonis :URS  BB 1988 then bronze 1992 for :LTU  listed at 2.21 m.  

For Women, the tallest I'm sure is Uljana Semjonova :URS (  :LAT  nationality) BB 1976 and 1980 listed between 2.10 and 2.16.  The shortest is Mariya Filatova :URS Gymnastics 1976 and 1980, 1.36 meters tall.  Filatova is also likely the lightest listed at 30 kg.  

 

For men, the heaviest gold medalist is probably Leonid Zhabotynsky  :URS 1964 and 1968 WL listed at 163 kg.  The heaviest woman is Zhou Lulu   :CHN 2012 WL at 133 kg.

 

 

Actually, the shortest and lightest men's gold medalist may be the unknow cox of the 1900 pairs event, thought to be around 11 years old. 

Oh Thank you very very much my dear sir :hatoff:

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7 hours ago, Triplecast said:

I'll take a stab at this.  For men, the shortest gold medalist I'm sure is Joseph DePietro :USA  WL 1948 gold medal in bantamweight.  He was 1.40 metes tall.  The tallest is Arvydas Sabonis :URS  BB 1988 then bronze 1992 for :LTU  listed at 2.21 m.  

For Women, the tallest I'm sure is Uljana Semjonova :URS (  :LAT  nationality) BB 1976 and 1980 listed between 2.10 and 2.16.  The shortest is Mariya Filatova :URS Gymnastics 1976 and 1980, 1.36 meters tall.  Filatova is also likely the lightest listed at 30 kg.  

 

For men, the heaviest gold medalist is probably Leonid Zhabotynsky  :URS 1964 and 1968 WL listed at 163 kg.  The heaviest woman is Zhou Lulu   :CHN 2012 WL at 133 kg.

 

 

Actually, the shortest and lightest men's gold medalist may be the unknow cox of the 1900 pairs event, thought to be around 11 years old. 

:IRI Behdad Salimi (WL, men's +105kg) at the London 2012 Games was listed in competition at 168.19kg :evil: ;)

 

p.s. also :RUS Andrei Chemerkin in 1996 was listed as heavier than Zhabotnysky (165+ kg)

 

among the women, :CHN Li Wenwen in Tokyo 2021 was listed at 150.10kg :yikes:

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Tallest gold medallists

 

Arvydas    Sabonis    M        URS    BKB 1988 223cm
Viktor    Pankrashkin    M       URS    BKB 1988  220
Dmitry    Musersky    M        RUS    VVO 2012  219
David    Robinson    M        USA    BKB 1992/6 216
Tyson    Chandler    M        USA    BKB 2012 216
Sergey    Kovalenko    M        URS    BKB 1972 216
Shaquille    O'Neal    M        USA    BKB 1996 216
 

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Tallest medallists

 

Arvydas    Sabonis    M        URS    BKB 1988 223cm

Tommy Burleson       M        USA    BKB 1972 223cm

Viktor Pankrashkin    M         URS  BKB 1988 220cm

Vladimir Tkachenko  M         URS  BKB 1980 220cm

Dmitry    Musersky    M        RUS    VVO 2012  219

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Heaviest medalists

Chris    Taylor    M        USA    WRE 1972 183kg
Dmitry    Nosov    M        RUS    JUD 2004 175
Ali    Davoudi    M      IRI    WLF 2020 168

Leonid Zhabotinsky M URS WLF 1964 163kg

Lasha Talakhadze M  GEO WLF 2016 160

Behdad Salimi M IRI WLF 2012 160

Vasily Alekseyev M URS WLF 1976 160

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Shortest gold medal winners

Li    Lu    F       CHN    GAR 92 136cm
Mariya    Filatova    F        URS    GAR 76 136
Xin    Wang    F        CHN    DIV 80 137
Oana    Ban    F        ROU    GAR 04 139
Dominique    Moceanu    F        USA    GAR 96 139
Loredana    Boboc    F        ROU    GAR 2000 139


Joe    DePietro    M        USA    WLF 84 140
 

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