The youngest athlete

What you are given

Use athletes. ORDER BY birth_year descending and take the first row.

Starting point

SELECT name, birth_year
FROM athletes
ORDER BY birth_year DESC
LIMIT 1;

The reference solution is checked automatically when you run your query on the practice page — results are compared row by row, and order matters for this one.

Did you know

Mostafa Asal (b. 2001), nicknamed “The Raging Bull”, became world squash champion in 2024–25 without dropping a single game — the first to do so since Jahangir Khan in 1988. (PSA)

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