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Here are all the athletes with New England ties who won medals at the 2024 Olympics
A total of 22 athletes with New England ties helped Team USA bring home 17 medals.
The 2024 Summer Olympics have come to an end.
After 16 days of high-level competition featuring the world’s greatest athletes, Team USA is at the top of the medal table again. It won 40 gold medals, which was tied for the most with China, and won 126 medals total, 35 more than anyone else. The 126 total medals are the most won by Team USA since the 1984 Summer Olympics.
Plenty of athletes with New England ties played a role in Team USA’s successes. In total, 22 athletes with New England ties accounted for 17 of the medals that Team USA won, including 10 gold medals.
Jayson Tatum, Jrue Holiday, and Derrick White
There might have been a lot of headlines around Tatum’s playing time throughout the Olympic Games, but the Celtics’ star trio brought home gold for the United States men’s basketball team. It defeated host nation France, 98-87, on Saturday for the gold.
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Holiday got the most run in the title game, scoring six points with four assists in 19 minutes. All three Celtics stars made a bit of a history, though. Holiday became the second player to ever win an NBA title and a gold medal in the same year twice, joining Scottie Pippen. Tatum, who also won his second gold, became the third player to win an Olympic gold medal after winning an NBA title and being named first-team All-NBA.
Finally, with White’s late addition, Saturday’s win marked the first time that a team had three players win the gold medal after winning the NBA title in the previous season.
Kristen Faulkner
The Harvard alum was one of the biggest American surprises at the Paris Games. Faulkner, a 31-year-old from Alaska, won the gold medal in women’s road cycling, becoming the first American rider in 40 years to win a medal in the event.
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Faulkner added a second gold medal on Wednesday, helping the United States win the women’s team pursuit. Not too bad of a summer for someone who made Team USA as a replacement and started their cycling career after college.
Lauren Scruggs
Scruggs, a Harvard alum from Queens, New York, picked up a pair of medals in fencing. First, she won the silver medal in the individual foil event on July 28. Four days later, Scruggs helped the USA win gold in the team event against Italy.
The 21-year-old made history with her win in the individual foil event, becoming the first Black woman to ever medal in an Olympic fencing event.
Stephen Nedoroscik and Frederick Richard
A pair of Massachusetts natives teamed up to get Team USA back on the podium in men’s gymnastics. The men’s team won bronze in the team event, marking the first time since 2008 that it had medaled in the Olympics.
Nedoroscik, a 25-year-old from Worcester, became one of the breakout stars of the Olympics. His demeanor ahead of his pommel horse routine that clinched the USA a medal won over many fans online. He followed that up by winning the bronze medal in his specialty later on in the first week of the Summer Games, further cementing his status as the “pommel horse guy.”
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Richard, a 20-year-old from Stoughton, performed in the floor, rings, parallel bars, and horizontal bar disciplines during the team event. He also competed in the individual all-around event, finishing 10th, and the horizontal bar event, finishing 11th.
Richard currently competes for Michigan’s men’s gymnastics team and is expected to continue to participate at the college level.
Liam Corrigan
The former Harvard rowing captain and 26-year-old native of Old Lyme, Connecticut, gave the United States its first gold medal in the men’s fours rowing in 64 years.
“It literally felt like a dream,” Corrigan told reporters after winning the race. “I thought I’d have some insane celebration, start jumping, but it was just utter disbelief.”
Henry Hollingsworth, Chris Carlson, Clark Dean, Peter Quinton
Corrigan wasn’t the only person with New England ties to bring home a medal in rowing for Team USA. Hollingsworth, Carlson, Dean, and Quinton teamed up to win the bronze in the men’s eight event.
Hollingsworth is a native of Dover and Carlson hails from Bedford, New Hampshire. Dean (of Sarasota, Florida) and Quinton (of Portland, Oregon) are Harvard alums.
Kristi Kirshe and Ilona Maher
Kirshe, a Franklin native, and Maher, a Quinnipiac University alum from Vermont, both helped the United States win its first medal in women’s rugby sevens. Its win over New Zealand in the bronze medal match provided one of the more thrilling moments of the Olympics,with the game-winning try scored just as time expired.
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Similar to Nedoroscik, Maher has become a social media darling. She gained millions of followers on her social media platforms since the start of the Games, having four million followers on Instagram when the Games officially concluded.
Alyssa Naeher
The Stratford, Connecticut native was a major part in helping the United States women’s national soccer team win gold for the first since 2012. Naeher, the starting goalkeeper, made a diving save in stoppage time of the gold medal match against Brazil to keep the United States’ one-goal lead.
As the U.S. went on to win 1-0, Naeher became the first goalkeeper in women’s soccer history to record a shutout in a World Cup final and an Olympic final.
Kieran Smith
Smith, a native of Ridgefield, Connecticut, was the only swimmer with New England ties to participate for Team USA in swimming. She won the silver medal in the women’s 4×200-meter freestyle relay.
Ruby Remati
Remati’s Olympic debut nearly went as well as she could’ve hoped for. The Andover native was a part of the United States team that won silver in the team acrobatic routine.
Gabby Thomas
The Northampton native and Harvard alum was one of the biggest track starers in Paris. She won gold in all three events she participated in, wining the women’s 200-meter sprint, the women’s 4×100 meter relay, and the women’s 4×400 meter relay.
Alexis Holmes
Holmes, a native of Cheshire, Connecticut, was a part of the United States women’s team that won the 4×400 meter relay on Saturday, winning her first gold medal. She finished sixth in the 400-meter event.
Breanna Stewart, Napheesa Collier, and Diana Taurasi
Finally, a few UConn alums helped Team USA win gold in the final event at the 2024 Summer Olympics. Stewart, Collier, and Taurasi helped the women’s basketball team win gold for the eighth straight Summer Games with its one-point win over France on Sunday.
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Stewart and Collier were starters on the team while Taurasi was at the end of the bench. But Taurasi won her sixth gold medal with Sunday’s win.
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