The Golden Bears earned 23 medals: Five gold, 10 silver and eight bronze
The Paris Olympic are in the books and only 11 countries claimed more Olympic hardware than the Bears’ total of 23 medals.
Swimmer Ryan Murphy, in his third Olympics, led the way. The 29-year-old added three medals to his collection, picking up a gold in the mixed 4x200 medley relay, a silver in the men’s 4x100 medley relay and a bronze in the 100 backstroke.Murphy, unlikely to return to the Games at Los Angeles in 2028, returns home with nine career Olympics medals, five of them gold.
Camryn Rogers won Cal’s only individual gold medal in Paris, capturing the women’s hammer throw to go with her world championship title of a year ago. Alekna, a junior at Cal, broke the 38-year-old world record in the discus last spring and at Paris broke the Olympic record held by his father, two-time gold medalist Virgijus Alekna, at the 2004 Games.
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