More than 40 athletes with ties to Austin are competing in the Paris Olympics this summer. Here’s who's brought home a medal, so far:
Swimming
Carson Foster
Foster attended UT Austin from 2020-2024 — and he’s got a Texas Longhorn tattoo on his ribs to prove it. He won a bronze medal in the 400-meter individual medley race with a time of 4:08.66. (Michael Phelps holds the Olympic record for that race with a time of 4:03.84.)
Foster also won a silver medal in the men's 4 x 200-meter freestyle relay.
Luke Hobson
Hobson just finished his junior year at UT Austin where he’s won five NCAA Championships. He won a bronze medal for the 200-meter freestyle race — and it was extremely close. He finished with a time of 1:44.79. The first and second-place winners finished in 1.44.72 and 1:44.74, respectively.
Hobson also won a silver medal in the men's 4 x 200-meter freestyle relay.
Drew Kibler
Kibler — who graduated from UT Austin in 2022 — raced with Foster, Hobson and Connecticut-born swimmer Kieran Smith to win silver in the men's 4 x 200-meter freestyle relay with a time of 7:00.78. Great Britain took home gold with a time of 6:59.43.
Hubert Kós
Kós won gold for Hungary in the 200-meter backstroke with a time of 1:54.26. The Hungarian-born swimmer just wrapped up his sophomore year at Arizona State University, but he will be starting his next school year as a Longhorn.
Caspar Corbeau
Corbeau was a Texas Longhorn from 2019-2023. He earned a bronze medal for The Netherlands in the 200-meter breaststroke with a time of 2:07.90.
Erin Gemmell
Gemmell — a rising sophomore at UT — raced with Katie Ledecky, Claire Weinstein and Paige Madden in the women's 4 x 200-meter relay to win silver with a time of 7:40.86. Team Australia took gold with a time of 7:38.08.
Track and Field
Julien Alfred
Alfred won gold for Saint Lucia in the 100-meter race with a time of 10.72, making her Saint Lucia's first-ever Olympic champion. Dallas-born runner Sha'Carri Richardson won silver with a time of 10.87.
Alfred also won silver in the women's 200-meter race with a time of 22.08 seconds.
Alfred was a Texas Longhorn from 2018 to 2023, where she became the fastest female collegian ever in the 60m indoor race.
Ryan Crouser
Crouser won his third Olympic gold medal for Team USA in men's shot put — throwing the 16-pound ball almost 23 meters.
But Crouser didn't beat the Olympic or world records for shot put— both of which are his own throws. He set the world record, 23.56 meters, in May 2023, and the Olympic record, 23.30 meters, in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
Crouser was a Longhorn from 2011-2016.
Fred Kerley
Kerley won bronze for Team USA in the men's 100-meter dash with a time of 9.81 seconds. (Usain Bolt still holds both the world and Olympic records for the 100-meter dash at 9.58 seconds and 9.63 seconds, respectively.)
Kerley went to Taylor High School before attending South Plaines College in Lubbock and Texas A&M.
Leo Neugebauer
Neugebauer won silver for Germany in the decathlon, scoring 8,748 points. (A decathlon consists of a little bit of everything: long jump, high jump, shot put, javelin, pole vault, discus, hurdles and lots of running.)
Neugebauer graduated from UT Austin in 2024.
Valarie Allman
Allman won gold for Team USA in the women's discus throw with a distance of 69.50 meters. Allman lives in Austin and has been a volunteer assistant coach at UT Austin.
Gabby Thomas
Thomas won gold for Team USA in the women's 200-meter run with a time of 21.83 seconds. Former Longhorn Julien Alfred took second place in the race for Saint Lucia.
After graduating from Harvard, Thomas moved to Austin to be coached by former Olympian Tonja Buford-Bailey.
Tara Davis-Woodhall
Davis-Woodhall won her first gold medal in the women's long jump with a winning jump of 7.10 meters. Jasmine Moore, a native of Grand Prairie, Texas, won bronze in the event with a 6.96-meter jump.
Davis-Woodhall attended UT from 2018-2021. She celebrated after the event holding a U.S. flag and donning a cowboy hat.
Golf
Scottie Scheffler
Scheffler won gold for Team USA in men's individual stroke play. He's also won six PGA Tour events and his second Master's Tournament this year.
Scheffler went to UT Austin from 2014 to 2018 and now lives in Dallas, where he grew up.
Medal tally*
Gold: 7
Silver: 6
Bronze: 4
*A tally is counted for each Austin-area athlete participating in a relay.
This is a developing story. Check back in for updates as the games continue.
