Sergey Karjakin:

Youngest chess grandmaster

Simple to learn, yet infinitely complex, chess is a game that has captured the hearts and minds of nerds across the world.

Because the rules are so simple, and because the game requires no more physical acuity than simple eye-hand coordination, the world of chess has for a long time fostered “chess prodigies” that became extremely skilled at the game at very young ages.

In terms of ranking playe3rs, grandmaster is the highest rank a player can achieve in the world of chess, and the youngest person to ever attain the title is Sergey Karjakin of the Ukraine. Karjakin was eligible for the title of grandmaster when he was merely 12 years old, only 7 days after his birthday. Now 21, Karjakin is currently ranked as the fifth best player in the world. Still, despite so many accomplishments at such a young age, Karjakin is still not a household name, probably because chess is totally for nerds.

Marjorie Gestring:

Youngest Olympic gold medallist

While the Olympics are always full of young athletic phenoms, Marjorie Gestring belongs to youngest category.

At the age of 13 years and 267 days, Gestring became the youngest ever gold medallist when she took home the gold for the United States in the diving competition during the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin.

It is an outstanding thing to be the best amateur athlete in the world at anything at the age of 13. Wile Gestring is the youngest gold medallist, the youngest medallist period has her beat by a good three years. Dimitros Loundras of Greece won a silver medal at 10 years, 218 days in the parallel bars team event during the 1896 Olympic Games in Athens.

With the cancellation of the Olympics in 1940 and 1944 due to World War II, Gestring did not get a chance to defend her title, and her comeback attempt for the 1948 Summer Olympics fell short.She was inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame in 1976, and is a member of the Stanford Athletic Hall of Fame.

Eleanor Gamble:

Youngest golfer to score a hole-in-one

Golf is the kind of sport that requires years of dedication, practice and hard work before you can even step foot on a course and play the game with any level of competency.

But like just about everything, some people just inherently “get it,” and are able to make this infuriating sport so beloved by the elderly look like mere child’s play.

Eleanor Gamble, of West Wratting, Cambs, made anyone who has spent hours at a driving range with nothing more to show for it than blistered hands look like chumps when she sunk an 86-yard hole-in-one at the tender age of 5. You could probably spend your whole life golfing and never get a hole-in-one!

The 3ft 5inches tall youngster managed to drive her ball 86 yards over a lake, round a bunker and straight into a cup on the par three hole - to rapturous applause from fellow golfers.

Eleanor was competing in an Easter Pairs competition with her 10-year-old brother Jacob, who represents the county at the under-12 level.