- Julien Alfred (Saint Lucia) received 100m dash gold (College of Texas)
- Armand ‘Mondo’ Duplantis (Sweden) received gold within the males’s pole vault (College of Louisiana)
- Cassandre Beaugrand (France) received gold within the ladies’s particular person triathlon (Loughborough College)
There have been over 11,000 athletes competing on the Olympic Video games, a lot of whom are both enrolled or not too long ago graduated from universities and faculties all over the world.
Such is the extent of sports activities growth at fashionable HE establishments that some universities rank alongside the highest 20 international locations when it comes to medals achieved.
Griffith College despatched a mixture of 38 college students and alumni to compete in Paris and may be linked to 34% of Australia’s complete medal haul (18/53 medals).
Within the US, athletes linked to the College of California, Berkley amassed 23 medals, the College of Texas achieved 16 medals, the College of Southern California 15 medals and Harvard College 13 medals.
Within the UK, athletes linked to Loughborough College completed with 16 medals.
Worldwide college students’ success
There have been some notable worldwide scholar success tales, albeit twin citizenship allowed some athletes to decide on which nation to symbolize.
US-Swedish star Armand ‘Mondo’ Duplantis, a graduate of Louisiana State College, smashed his personal world file to win gold within the males’s pole vault.
An image of Duplantis with American sprinter Sha’Carri Richardson taken in 2018 on their first day at LSU has gone viral on social media, after each athletes triumphed on the 2024 Olympics.
Julien Alfred, a former scholar on the College of Texas, received gold within the ladies’s 100m dash, incomes Saint Lucia its first ever Olympic medal.
Hungarian scholar Hubert Kos from the College of Texas claimed the gold medal within the 200m backstroke alongside alumnus Caspar Corbeau, who earned bronze within the 200m breaststroke for the Netherlands.
The College of Texas additionally had alumnus Leo Neugebauer competing for Germany to take silver within the males’s decathlon.
The College of Washington scholar Jacob Dawson scored victory over fellow UW alumnus Gert-Jan van Doorn, because the British rowing crew took gold forward of the Netherlands within the males’s eight regatta.
UW alum Holly Dunford additionally earned a bronze medal for Nice Britain within the ladies’s equal last, together with crew mate Heidi Lengthy, who graduated from the College of Virginia.
The College of Arkansas celebrated Rojé Stona competing for Jamaica, who broke the Olympic file for discus with a gold-medal profitable throw of 229 toes, eight inches (70m).
Alumnus Wayne Pinnock, additionally competing for Jamaica, received the silver medal within the males’s Olympic lengthy bounce with a leap of 27 toes, 5.25 inches (8.36m).
British sprinter Amber Anning graduated from the College of Arkansas this yr with a level in promoting and public relations with minors in journalism, strategic media and psychology.
Anning picked up two bronze medals as a relay crew member for Nice Britain’s blended 4x400m relay and its ladies’s 4x400m relay crew.
The College of Tennessee celebrated males’s basketball participant Uroš Plavšić, who received an Olympic bronze medal for Serbia, and Indiana College Notre Dame celebrated Hungarian scholar Eszter Muarhi, who received bronze in epee (fencing).
Carlos Yulo, a scholar within the college of medical know-how at Teikyo College in Japan, received gold medals within the males’s gymnastics ground train and vault representing the Philippines.
Within the UK, Loughborough School scholar Cassandre Beaugrand took gold for France in Ladies’s particular person triathlon, whereas Loughborough College scholar Paige Madden took silver within the ladies’s 4x200m swimming relay and bronze within the ladies’s 800m freestyle.
College of Tub graduate Prisca Awiti-Alcaraz received a silver medal for Mexico within the ladies’s 63kg judo competitors and St Mary’s College alumnus and former sport scholar Aaron Grandidier received gold for France within the rugby sevens.
There will probably be extra medals to observe when the Paralympics begins on August 28 2024.
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