PARIS (WYMT) – Eleven Kentucky Wildcats won 13 medals at the 2024 Paris Olympic Games including nine gold, two silver and two bronze medals to set a new school record. The previous school record was 12 individual medals during the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
In Paris, American Wildcats contributed nine medals to Team USA’s world-leading medal count (40 golds, 126 total medals).
Kentucky ranked second on the Southeastern Conference Medal Table (the SEC Medal Table ranking does not include UK College of Medicine student Lee Kiefer’s two golds because she competed collegiately for Notre Dame in fencing, a sport that SEC schools don’t compete in at the varsity level).
A school-record 24 UK student-athletes, alumni and coaches represented nine countries across six sports at the Paris Olympic Games.
2024 Kentucky Wildcats Olympic Medalists
GOLD
Bam Adebayo (Men’s Basketball)
Gold– 5×5 Basketball – Team USA
Devin Booker (Men’s Basketball)
Gold– 5×5 Basketball – Team USA
Anthony Davis (Men’s Basketball)
Gold– 5×5 Basketball – Team USA
Alexis Holmes (Track and Field)
Gold 4x400m Relay – Team USA
Lee Kiefer (Fencing), UK College of Medicine (competed collegiately for Notre Dame)
Gold – Women’s Individual Foil – Team USA
Gold – Women’s Team Foil – Team USA
Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone (Track and Field)
Gold – 400m hurdles – Team USA
Gold – 4x400m Relay – Team USA
Masai Russell (Track and Field)
Gold 100m hurdles – Team USA
SILVER
Daniel Roberts (Track and Field)
Silver – 110m hurdles – Team USA
Avery Skinner (Volleyball)
Silver – Volleyball – Team USA
BRONZE
Jasmine Camacho-Quinn (Track and Field)
Bronze 100m hurdles – Team Puerto Rico
Rhyne Howard (Basketball)
Bronze – 3×3 Basketball – Team USA
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