When including alternate athletes and coaching staffs, the size of the Pac-12 delegation grew to 373. The Conference had an Olympian on 57 of the 206 National Olympic Committees that had athletes entered in the Games (27.7 percent). The Pac-12 sent 326 total Olympic athletes to Tokyo, which included competitors from every Pac-12 institution. Of those 60 collective medals, 17 were gold, which would have tied Australia for sixth among all National Olympic Committees. If the Conference was a country, it would have finished fifth in the overall medal count behind the United States (113), China (88), Russian Olympic Committee (71) and Great Britain (65). Pac-12 medals came in 18 different sports and the Conference’s podium finishers represented 12 different National Olympic Committees – Australia, Bermuda, Canada, Chinese Taipei, Denmark, Great Britain, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Slovakia, Spain and the United States.Ĭounting medals won as part of the same relay, boat or team as one collective medal, athletes with Pac-12 ties helped their National Olympic Committees earn 60 medals at the 2020 Games. Ninety-one past, present and future students and current coaches combined to earn those 108 medals, which included 35 golds. SAN FRANCISCO – Pac-12-affiliated athletes took home 108 individual medals at the recently-concluded 2020 Tokyo Olympics, the most among all conferences. » FULL LIST OF PAC-12 TOKYO OLYMPIANS & MEDALISTS
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