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5 Buckeyes medal in 2024 Paris Olympics

5 Buckeyes medal in 2024 Paris Olympics


Former Ohio State swimmer Hunter Armstrong (center) with teammates Jack Alexy (left) and Chris Giuliano (proper) through the 2024 Paris Olympics on July 27 in Paris, France. Credit score: Ohio State Athletics/Getty Photographs

After spending almost three weeks overseas, 5 Buckeye athletes are returning house with coveted Olympic medals. 

Through the 2024 Summer season Olympics in Paris, 5 former or present Ohio State athletes made it to their respective podiums. In whole, the Buckeyes completed with one gold, two silver and two bronze medals, in keeping with an Aug. 12 press launch from Ohio State Athletics. 

2020-22 Buckeye swimmer Hunter Armstrong earned Ohio State’s lone gold medal for Workforce USA within the 4×100-meter freestyle relay.

Armstrong was a catalyst for the freestyle group, swimming a vital third leg for america during which he touched the wall at a break up of 46.75, the very best leg by any of the People within the ultimate.  

Armstrong additionally helped the U.S. earn silver within the males’s 4×100-meter medley, falling to China by simply 0.55 seconds within the Aug. 4 race. 

Two Buckeye inventive swimmers, incoming freshman Keana Hunter and sophomore Ruby Remati, swam for the U.S. within the group occasion, serving to the group win a silver medal. 

The second place end marked the U.S.’ first medal within the group class since 2004 and its finest total outcome since profitable gold through the 1996 Summer season Olympics in Atlanta. 

Two former Buckeye fencers additionally shined on the Paris Olympic video games. 

Eleanor Harvey, a Buckeye from 2013-17, earned a bronze medal for Workforce Canada within the girls’s particular person foil occasion, defeating Italian fencer Alice Volpi 15-12. With this victory, Harvey turned the primary particular person medal winner in each Canadian and Ohio State fencing historical past. 

Moreover, Maximilien Chastanet, who competed at Ohio State from 2014-18, helped France win a bronze medal within the males’s group foil occasion alongside teammates Enzo Lefort and Maxime Pauty. 

Written by bourbiza mohamed

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