Cal and Stanford combined to win more medals than South Korea, Italy and Germany.
Torri Huske, of the United States, waves as she stands on the podium to receive her silver medal for the women’s 100-meter freestyle final at the 2024 Summer Olympics, Wednesday, July 31, 2024, in Nanterre, France. If Stanford and Cal merged as a country – only slightly less likely than them joining the Atlantic Coast Conference – the two eternal rivals would have been the seventh-most successful country in the 2024 Paris Olympic Games.
Not counting medals won by multiple athletes from single team events, Stanford won 27 medals and Cal took home 16. The 43 combined medals put the schools just behind Japan and slightly ahead of Italy . Stanford and Cal consistently have elite programs in Olympic sports, an investment that paid off during the past two weeks as alumni and current students won medal after medal.
Counting multiple medal winners from a single event — like Torri Huske and Simone Manuel on the 4×100 freestyle relay — the Cardinal claimed 39 medals in all, which the school says broke its previous record of 27 set at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Games.Olympics |Huske captured three gold medals in the pool and was one of 14 Stanford undergrads to qualify for the Olympics.In track and field, Camryn Rogers captured Cal’s only individual gold when she placed first in the hammer throw.
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