Marie Hoesly

{{short description|American gymnast}}

Marie Margaret Hoesly (November 5, 1916 – September 30, 2003) was an American artistic gymnast.[https://web.archive.org/web/20200418123339/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ho/marie-hoesly-1.html "Marie Hoesly"]. sports-reference.com. Retrieved July 13, 2013. She competed at the 1952 Summer Olympics when she was 35, making her the oldest female gymnast from the United States to compete at the Olympics as of the 2024 Olympics.{{Olympedia|29248}}{{Cite web |date=2024-07-17 |title=A Her-story of Women’s Gymnastics in the Olympic Games |url=https://www.nbc.com/nbc-insider/history-womens-olympic-gymnastics-artistic-rhythmic |access-date=2024-08-13 |website=NBC Insider Official Site |language=en-US}} Although it was officially recognized as rhythmic gymnastics, one of the seven female gymnastics events was the team portable apparatus event which resembles modern rhythmic gymnastics.