PARIS — If the University of Kentucky was a nation, its 10 total medals at the Paris 2024 Olympics would rank 21st on the Nations Medal Table and its six golds would rank 14th. 


What You Need To Know

  • Eleven athletes with University of Kentucky ties won 13 medals at the 2024 Paris Olympics: nine gold, two silver and one bronze, marking a new school record

  • Using the formula where team medals count as one medal, the school has 10 medals: six gold, two silver and two bronze 

  • Five Wildcats won medals in track and field, four in basketball, one in volleyball and one in fencing 

  • A total of 24 student-athletes, alumni and coaches with UK connections competed in Paris

A new school record, 11 Wildcats won 13 medals at the 2024 games: nine gold, two silver and one bronze. Using the formula where team medals count as one medal, the school has 10 medals: six gold, two silver and two bronze. 

American Wildcats led the way, contributing nine medals to Team USA's world-leading medal count of 126 medals, including 40 golds. Five Wildcats won medals in track and field, four in basketball, one in volleyball and one (Lee Kiefer) in fencing, who competed collegiately at Notre Dame but is a UK College of Medicine student. 

Here's a full look at Kentucky's 2024 Olympic medalists:

Gold:

  • Bam Adebayo (Men's Basketball) — 5x5 Basketball, Team USA
  • Devin Booker (Men's Basketball) — 5x5 Basketball, Team USA
  • Anthony Davis (Men's Basketball) — 5x5 Basketball, Team USA
  • Alexis Holmes (Track and Field) — 4x400m Relay, Team USA
  • Lee Kiefer (Fencing), UK College of Medicine (competed collegiately for Notre Dame) — Women's Individual Foil and Women's Team Foil, Team USA
  • Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone (Track and Field) — 400m hurdles and 4x400m Relay, Team USA
  • Masai Russell (Track and Field) — 100m hurdles, Team USA 

Silver:

  • Daniel Roberts (Track and Field) — 110m hurdles, Team USA
  • Avery Skinner (Volleyball) — Team USA

Bronze: 

  • Jasmine Camacho-Quinn (Track and Field) — 100m hurdles, Team Puerto Rico
  • Rhyne Howard (Basketball) — 3x3 Basketball, Team USA 
United States' Lee Kiefer, right, reacts as she competes with Italy's Martina Favaretto in the women's team foil final match during the 2024 Summer Olympics at the Grand Palais, Thursday, Aug. 1, 2024, in Paris, France. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

Ashley Kovacs, former UK track and field thrower (2007-10), coached two medalists as the USA Athletics/Track and Field team's women's throws coach: Valerie Allman (gold, discus) and Annette Echikunwoke (silver, hammer throw). She also coached her husband, Joe Kovacs, to a third straight Olympic silver in the shot put.  

A total of 24 student-athletes, alumni and coaches with UK connections competed in Paris. Of those 24, 12 of them have won a combined 22 medals in their collective Olympics experience dating back to the 2008 Beijing Olympics. 

UK athletes have represented 16 countries over the years. This year's games marked the first time it had an athlete represent South Sudan: Wenyen Gabriel, who competed in 5x5 Basketball.

Kentucky's 11 athletes with medals ties the school with Florida for second on the Southeastern Conference Medal Table, only behind Texas, who finished with 16. 

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