Record-Setting 2024 Paris Games (2024)

PARIS - Stanford concluded the 2024 Paris Olympic Games with a school-record 39 medals, shattering its previous best while cementing its reputation on the world’s biggest stage as the nation’s top collegiate program.

Boasting a school-record 59 Olympians with Cardinal ties, Stanford surpassed its all-time medals benchmark (27 overall at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Games) while winning at least 20 medals for the sixth time in school history (2020, 2016, 2008, 1996, 1924). Additionally, Stanford has won 128 medals combined over the last five Summer Games.

Stanford’s haul of 39 medals (12 gold, 14 silver, 13 bronze) is the most by any school at one Olympics. Counting medals won as part of the same relay, boat or team as one collective medal, Cardinal athletes accounted for 27 event medals at the 2024 Paris Games. If Stanford was a country, it would have finished tied with Canada for 11th place.

For the third consecutive edition of the Games, Stanford also totaled more Team USA selections (37) than any other school, accumulating 36 Team USA medals and reinforcing its status as the preeminent training ground for national team competition.

Stanford’s affiliates have captured 335 overall medals (162 gold, 93 silver, 80 bronze) from 196 medalists. The Cardinal has produced at least one medalist in every Olympics in which the U.S. has competed since 1912.

Cardinal student-athletes medaled in 14 of the department’s 36 varsity sports: artistic swimming, women’s basketball, women’s fencing, men’s gymnastics, sailing, men’s rowing, women’s soccer, women’s swimming and diving, men’s track and field, women's track & field, men’s volleyball, women’s volleyball, men’s water polo, women’s water polo.

Of Stanford’s 39 overall medals, 17 came from the women’s swimming and diving program, highlighted by Katie Ledecky winning four (2 gold, 1 silver, 1 bronze) to become the most decorated American female Olympian of all time in any sport with 14 overall. Ledecky, who joined Michael Phelps as the only swimmers to win the same event at four straight Games, now owns nine career gold medals, tied for the most by any female Olympian.

Torri Huske, Stanford’s lone returning medalist among current student-athletes, enjoyed a breakthrough Olympics campaign with five medals (3 golds, 2 silver), while Regan Smith also contributed five (2 golds, 3 silver).

Stanford’s team-sport success was equally impressive, with 11 current and former student-athletes fueling their respective countries to medals in women’s basketball (bronze), women’s soccer (gold), men’s volleyball (bronze), women’s volleyball (silver), men’s water polo (bronze) and women’s water polo (silver). The Cardinal also contributed to team-event medals in artistic swimming (silver) and men’s gymnastics (bronze).

Meanwhile, 19 Cardinal athletes secured their first career medal, a total that ranks second in school history behind the 21 first-time medalists at the 2008 Beijing Games. Perhaps the most impressive debut was turned in by track and field’s Grant Fisher, who became the first male distance runner in U.S. history to medal in both the 5,000 meters and 10,000 meters.

The Cardinal’s 59 Olympians (20 male, 39 female) represented 14 countries across 20 varsity sports. Included among Stanford’s contingent were 14 current student-athletes, 44 former student-athletes and one other institutional affiliate.

In addition to the 59 qualifiers, Stanford’s Olympic representation also included five alternates, one national team head coach and three national team assistant coaches. Cameron Brink (3x3 women’s basketball), Catarina Macario (women’s soccer), and Ali Riley (women's soccer) were originally named to their respective teams but withdrew due to injury. Non-varsity sport student Nayel Nassar (equestrian) withdrew from competition after his horse, Coronado, sustained an injury.

Stanford is the all-time leader with 136 NCAA team championships (71 men, 65 women), and 167 national championships overall. The Cardinal owns the most recognizable streak in college athletics, having won at least one NCAA team title during each of the last 48 seasons, dating back to the 1976-77 campaign.