Oscar Swahn the Olympics at the age of 72. His best results were in the team competitions: a fourth place in the single shot running deer event, and a second place in the double shot running deer contest. With this silver medal, he is also the oldest medallist of all time (not counting the art competitions). Swahn did not compete in the 1924 Games because of illness. In all of the Swedish shooting teams competitions that Oscar Swahn competed with at Olympic games of 1908, 1912, and 1920, he competed alongside his son, Alfred Swahn. Oscar Swahn Oscar Gomer Swahn (20 October
Athletics at the 1930 Far Eastern Championship Games he would won the 1932 Olympics triple jump. Shuhei Nishida—pole vault and decathlon champion here—was an Olympic silver medallist at the same games. This success also extended globally for Japan, as Oda and Nishida were gold medallist at the 1930 International University Games. Two of the Filipino medallists in Tokyo, high jumper Toribio and Miguel White, later won Olympic medals (as of 2015, they are the only athletics medallists for the Philippines at the Olympics). Athletics at the 1930 Far Eastern Championship Games At the 1930 Far Eastern Championship Games, the athletics events were held in Tokyo, Japan in May.