Hal Haig "Harry" Prieste (November 23, 1896 – April 19, 2001) was an American athlete who participated in the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp as a diver.

[1] He was born Haig Prieste in Fresno, California, to Armenian immigrant parents.

The flag was returned to the IOC by Prieste, by then 103 years old, in a special ceremony held at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney.

[4][5] At the handover, IOC president Juan Antonio Samaranch gave him a commemorative Olympic medal in a box, to which the hard-of-hearing Prieste responded, "What is it?

At the time of his death at 104, Prieste was the world's oldest former Olympic medalist,[7] and the first known Olympian whose lifespan covered three centuries (1896–2001).