Jeanne Vanoverloop was a member of the La Jeunesse du Blanc Seau club of Tourcoing that was selected to represent France in the women’s team gymnastics event at the 1928 Amsterdam Olympics. At the Games, her squad finished fifth and last. At the age of 15, Vanoverloop was the youngest member of her team, but she retired shortly after the Games, took a job at a spinning mill, and got married. She died only a few years later, at the age of 18, a couple of days after childbirth, giving her the sad distinction of being one the Olympians who died at the youngest age.
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