Here are the Georgia athletes who won medals at the Paris Olympics

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Which Georgians medaled at the Paris Olympics?

The 2024 Paris Olympics wrapped up on Sunday. Here is a look at athletes from Georgia who medaled during the two weeks of the Games. 

 

Vincent Hancock

Sport: Shooting

Georgia Connection: From Eatonton

Medal won: Hancock won gold in men’s skeet shooting, becoming only the sixth man to win four gold medals in the same event. He also claimed silver in mixed skeet shooting with student Austen Smith. 

 

Nic Fink

Sport: Swimming

Georgia Connection: UGA and Georgia Tech graduate

Medals won: Fink tied for silver in the men’s 100m breaststroke and won another silver in the men’s 4 x 400 medley relay. He also won gold in the 4 x 100m mixed relay which also set a new world record.

 

Brooks Curry

Sport: Swimming

Georgia Connection: From Dunwoody

Medals won: Silver in men’s 4 x 200m freestyle relay after swimming in the qualifying rounds for Team USA.

 

Brody Malone

Sport: Men’s gymnastics

Georgia Connection: Graduated from Trion High School

Medals won: Malone was part of the team that claimed the US’s first medal in men’s gymnastics in 16 years, taking home bronze. 

 

Alex “Spiff” Sedrick

Sport: Rugby Sevens

Georgia Connection: Graduated from Marietta’s Life University

Medals won: Sedrick was the hero of Team USA’s bronze medal match against Australia, running the ball all the way back on a last-minute try to put the US over the top and claim the US’s first-ever medal in rugby sevens. 

 

Hampton Morris

Sport: Weightlifting, 61kg

Georgia Connection: From Marietta

Medals won: Morris became the first US men’s weightlifter to medal at the Olympics since the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles. He clean-and-jerked a total of 298 pounds to claim bronze. Morris also made an attempt at the world record of 392 pounds but came up just short. 

 

Nevin Harrison 

Sport: Canoe Sprint

Georgia Connection: Trains in Lake Lanier

Medal: Harrison won silver in the women’s 200m canoe sprint in a photo finish with Canadian Katie Vincent. She is now a gold and silver medalist after winning gold in Tokyo three years ago. 

 

Júlia Bergmann

Sport: Volleyball

Georgia Connection: Georgia Tech alumnae

Medal: Bergmann won bronze with Brazil as they defeated Türkiye 3 sets to one. 

 

Rhyne Howard and Dearica Hamby

Sport: Women’s 3×3 basketball

Georgia Connection: Howard plays for the Atlanta Dream while Hamby attended Norcross High School 

Medals won: After a heartbreaking overtime loss to Spain in the semifinals, the US Women’s 3×3 basketball team defeated Canada to win bronze. Howard became the third Dream player on the current roster to win an Olympic medal. Hamby, who was selected as a replacement initially, put the US in the lead with 77 seconds remaining. 

 

Jasmine Moore

Sport: Long jump, triple jump

Georgia Connection: Spent two years at UGA 

Medals won: Moore won bronze in both the women’s triple jump and the women’s long jump, becoming the first American woman to ever medal in both after becoming the first American woman to compete in both. 

 

Tara Davis-Woodhall

Sport: Long Jump

Georgia Connection: Competed one season at UGA 

Medals won: Davis-Woodhall won gold in the long jump and celebrated with a sand angel. 

 

Katie Moon

Sport: Pole Vault

Georgia Connection: Lives in Powder Springs

Medals won: Moon failed to defend her gold medal from Tokyo in Paris, but still claimed silver after a series of excellent jumps from Australian Nina Kennedy. 

 

Gabby Thomas

Sport: Running

Georgia Connection: Attended Pace Academy in elementary school before her family moved to Massachusetts. 

Medals won: Thomas had a dream Olympics. First, the Harvard graduate claimed gold in the women’s 200m. She followed it up with a gold in the women’s 4 x 100m relay and ended with gold in the women’s 4 x 400m relay. 

 

Daniel Roberts

Sport: Running

Georgia Connection: Graduate of Hampton High School 

Medals won: Roberts won a surprise silver in the men’s 110m hurdles. The US went one-two in the race as Grant Holloway claimed gold. 

 

Chris Bailey

Sport: Running

Georgia Connection: Bailey is an Atlanta native and a Carver High School alumnae 

Medal: Bailey placed sixth in the men’s 400m final, but got his redemption in the men’s 4x400m final. He ran the first leg which set the US on a path to gold. 

 

Bogdan Bogdanović

Sport: Men’s 5×5 basketball

Georgia Connection: Plays for the Atlanta Hawks

Medals won: Bogdanović, a shooting guard for the Hawks, won bronze with Serbia in a 93-83 win over Germany. 

 

Anthony Edwards

Sport: Men’s 5×5 basketball

Georgia Connection: Atlanta native who attended Therrell High School, Holy Spirit Prep and UGA

Medals won: Edwards won gold with the US men’s baskeball team as they defeated France to claim Team USA’s fifth straight gold. 

 

 

Emily Sonnett, Jane Campbell and Croix Bethune

Sport: Women’s soccer

Georgia Connection: Sonnet is a Marietta native who attended Fellowship Christian. Campbell is from Kennesaw and attended the Darlington School and Bethune is a UGA All-American from Alpharetta.

Medals won: Sonnett came off the bench in the second half to help the US defend their one goal lead which eventually won them gold. Campbell was a reserve goalkeeper behind Alyssa Naeher and Bethune was there as an alternate on the veteran US team. The team won gold as they defeated Brazil 1-0. 

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