In the summer Olympics, who was the shortest male gold medal winner in any sport and what was his height?
All Summer Olympics or just the last one?
I would take a look at the lightweight judo competitors. The bronze winner in 2016 was 5’3”. Naohisa Takato - Wikipedia
Could have been an unknown boy who coxed the Dutch rowing team in 1900. Estimates say he was between 7 and 10 years old.
You’d think this would be easier to Google…
Joe DiPietro is often mentioned for this, though I don’t know if he’s actually the shortest ever. He won gold in weightlifting in the 1948 Summer Olympics, and he was 4 foot, 7 inches. Joseph DePietro - Wikipedia
IIRC, an edition of the Guinness Book mentioned an unnamed coxswain in, I want to say, the 1936 Summer Olympics, as possibly the youngest and shortest Olympian ever. EDIT, TriPolar already mentioned the case I was thinking of.
The Light Flyweight boxing division has some pretty small guys also.
I would guess men’s gymnastics would have someone the smallest guys. I was able to find the heights of all of the olympic all around champions and it seems that the shortest was Li Xiaoshuang of China who was 5’ 1.5". I’m sure there was a single event winner who was shorter.
Another weightlifter was “Pocket Hercules”, he stood 4’10", and was a 3 time Olympic Gold Medalist (1988, 1992, 1996).
I came here to mention him. Didn’t know he died in 2017. 