USC Track & Field Has Record-Setting Group Competing At Paris Olympics

Track & Field | July 26, 2024

The USC track and field program boasts a record-setting 20 current, former and incoming athletes with Trojan ties competing for 10 different countries around the world at the 2024 Paris Olympics.  The track and field contingent is part of the Athletic Department’s record 66 past, present and future Trojans in Paris for the Games.  

Troy’s 66 competitors is more than 160 of the 203 National Olympic Committee delegations competing in Paris.  This will be the seventh consecutive Summer Games with at least 40 Trojan Olympians and the second in-a-row with 60 or more USC athletes competing.

At the 2020 Tokyo Olympics (contested in 2021), USC track and field athletes earned a record 13 medals: 6 golds, 2 silver and 5 bronze.  USC has had a track and field athlete earn at least one medal in every Summer Olympics since 1912.  At least one Trojan track and field athlete has earned a gold medal in seven of the last eight Olympics, combining for 19 gold medals in that time.

Fans can go to https://olympics.usctrojans.com to follow USC’s Paris Olympians. In addition to a full roster of USC Olympians, the site will include a daily schedule of events and results involving Trojan Olympians, an updated USC medal count, biographical information on each Trojan in Paris, pertinent news releases and USC’s Olympic history. 

USC expects to also have several Paralympians competing in the 2024 Paris Games, which will include incoming track and field athlete Ezra Frech. The https://olympics.usctrojans.com web site will be updated with Paralympic information prior to that event, beginning August 28.

USC track and field athletes begin action at the Paris Games on August 2.  Andre De Grasse (USC, 2015) was one of Canada’s flag bearers during the Olympic Opening Ceremony today (July 26).

The 20 track and field Olympians, the countries they are representing and the events they are currently scheduled to compete in are listed below:

Rai Benjamin (USA – 400m hurdles)

Chris Borzor (Haiti – 100m)

Aaron Brown (Canada – 100m, 200m)

Anna Cockrell (USA – 400m hurdles)

Kyra Constantine (Canada – 4x400m)

Andre De Grasse (Canada – 100m, 200m)

Kendall Ellis (USA – 400m)

Ashley Erasmus (South Africa – shot put)

Lorea Ibarzabal (Spain – 800m)

Amalie Iuel (Norway – 400m hurdles)

Yemi John (Great Britain -…