PARIS, France – The 2024 Olympic Games came to a close in Paris yesterday, capping the two-week event. Elite athletes from across the globe demonstrated their sensational abilities in every discipline, including over 100 former Drake Relays participants representing more than 30 different nations in athletics. Former Blue Oval competitors earned 19 total medals, which would have tied with Hungary for 14th overall if the Drake Relays entered as its own nation.
 
Five-time Drake Relays champion Ryan Crouser was a highlight in the field events as the current world record holder defended his shot put crown and earned his third-straight Olympic gold. Fellow American and 2024 Relays champion Payton Otterdahl narrowly missed the podium with a fourth-place finish while Jamaica's Rajindra Campbell rounded out the Relays alumni in the men's shot put field with a solid third-place result, earning the first Olympic medal of his career.
 
Masai Russell earned another American gold, and the first Olympic medal of her career, with a time of 12.33 in the women's 100m hurdles. She outran a loaded field that also featured Relays alumni Jasmine Camacho-Quinn of Puerto Rico, the silver medalist, sixth-place finisher Devynne Charlton of The Bahamas, and seventh-place finisher Alaysha Johnson of Team USA.
 
The two other Drake Relays-related gold medals were fittingly won in relay races as Duan Asemota and Andre De Grasse helped lead Canada to the top spot on the podium in the men's 4x100. South Africa placed second with former Relays runner Shaun Maswanganyi adding to the silver medal squad.
 
Other relay medal winners include Lee Eppie of Botswana, a member of the silver-medal winning men's 4x400 team, and Nicole Yeargin of Great Britian, a silver medalist in the Mixed 4x400 and bronze medalist in the women's 4x400.
 
Former Drake Relays champion Anna Cockrell took silver in the women's 400 hurdles, only behind a dominant record-breaking performance from Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone. On the men's side, Brazil's Allison Dos Santos earned bronze in the 400 hurdles.
 
Kenny Bednarek, who competed collegiately at Indian Hills Community College, took silver in the 200m dash, with a sprint of 19.62, repeating as the second-place finisher after doing the same at the 2020 Tokyo games. Former University of Iowa sprinter and Olympic rookie Brittany Brown took third place in the women's 200m dash. Her time of 22.20 was good enough to earn her first-ever Olympic medal.
 
Other silver medalists included Jamaica's Shanika Ricketts in the triple jump and a foursome of Americans in Annette Echikunwoke (women's hammer throw), Sam Kendricks (men's pole vault), Katie Moon (women's pole vault), and Daniel Roberts (men's 110m hurdles).
 
Notable non-medalists include a pair of Nigerians Ese Brume (women's long jump) and Chuk Enekwechi (men's shot put), who finished fifth and sixth in their respective events. Susan Ejore of Kenya took sixth in the women's 1500m, and veteran Kirani James of Grenada earned fifth in the men's 400m dash. American hammer thrower Rudy Winkler came in sixth in the men's hammer throw.
 
Lastly, Urbandale native and Dowling Catholic graduate Karissa Schweizer competed in both the women's 5000m and 10000m. Schweizer became just the third American athlete ever, and first since 2008, to post two top 10 finishes in both of those races at the same Olympics. The former Missouri Tiger earned ninth in the 10k and 10th in the 5k.

A comprehensive list of 2024 Olympic results for Drake Relays alum is below.


 

Athlete	Country	Event(s) - Placing
Alex Rose	American Samoa	Discus
Morgan McDonald	Australia	5000m
Denisha Cartwright	Bahamas	100H
Devynne Charlton	Bahamas	100H – 6th
Rhema Otabor	Bahamas	Javelin
Donald Thomas	Bahamas	High Jump
Kemi Adekoya	Bahrain	400H
Tristan Evelyn	Barbados	100m
Jah-Nai Perinchief	Bermuda	Triple Jump
Lee Eppie	Botswana	4x400 – SILVER
Allison Dos Santos	Brazil	400H - BRONZE
Duan Asemota	Canada	100m 4x100 - GOLD
Kate Current	Canada	1500m
Andre DeGrasse	Canada	100m 200m 4x100 - GOLD
Ben Flanagan	Canada	5000m
Kieran Lamb	Canada	1500m
Anicka Newell	Canada	Pole Vault
Alysha Newman	Canada	Pole Vault
Simone Plourde	Canada	1500m
Ben Preisner	Canada	Marathon
Savannah Sutherland	Canada	400H – 7th
Craig Thorne	Canada	110H
Lizzie Bird	Great Britain	Steeplechase – 7th
Lina Nielsen	Great Britain	400H
Charles Philibert-Thiboutot	Great Britain	1500m
Nick Percy	Great Britain	Discus
Aimee Pratt	Great Britain	Steeplechase
Cindy Sember	Great Britain	100H
Nicole Yeargin	Great Britain	4x400 - BRONZE Mixed 4x400 - SILVER
Stamatia Scarvellis	Greece	Hammer Throw
Katerina Stefanidi	Greece	Pole Vault
Kirani James	Grenada	400m – 5th
Greta Kerekes	Hungary	100H
Erna Gunnarsdottir	Iceland	Shot Put
Rajindra Campbell	Jamaica	Shot Put - BRONZE
Jaheel Hyde	Jamaica	400H
Andrenette Knight	Jamaica	400H Mixed 4x400 – 6th
Shanika Ricketts	Jamaica	Triple Jump - SILVER
Janieye Russell	Jamaica	400H
Hansle Parchment	Jamaica	110H – 8th
Chanice Porter	Jamaica	Long Jump
Shiann Salmon	Jamaica	400H – 6th
Traves Smikle	Jamaica	Discus – 10th
Danniel Thomas-Dodd	Jamaica	Shot Put
Adelle Tracy	Jamaica	1500m
Danielle Williams	Jamaica	100H
Susan Ejore	Kenya	1500m – 6th
Edwin Kurgat	Kenya	5000m – 7th
Emmanuel Matadi	Liberia	100m 4x100
Vera Hoffman	Luxembourg	1500m
Gabija Galvydyte	Lithuania	800m
Ieva Gumbs	Lithuania	Discus
Alma Cortes	Mexico	5000m
Diego Del Real	Mexico	Hammer Throw
Laura Galvan	Mexico	5000m
Uziel Munoz	Mexico	Shot Put – 8th
Cecilia Tamayo-Garza	Mexico	100m 200m
Denzel Comenentia	Netherlands	Hammer Throw
Churandy Martina	Netherlands	4x100
Tobi Amusan	Nigeria	100H
Ese Brume	Nigeria	Long Jump – 5th
Chuk Enekwechi	Nigeria	Shot Put – 6th
Sade Olatoye	Nigeria	Hammer Throw
Beatrice Llano	Norway	Hammer Throw
Lauren Hoffman	Philippines	400H
Klaudia Kazimeierska	Poland	1500m – 10th
Alicja Konieczek	Poland	Steeplechase – 13th
Anita Konieczek	Poland	Steeplechase
Jasmine Camacho-Quinn	Puerto Rico	100H - BRONZE
Grace Claxton	Puerto Rico	400H
Gianna Woodruff	Puerto Rico	400H
Mine DeKlerk	South Africa	Shot Put
Shaun Maswanganyi	South Africa	100m 200m 4x100 - SILVER
Lorena Martin	Spain	800m
Axelina Johansson	Sweden	Shot Put – 10th
Tom Walsh	New Zealand	Shot Put - NM
Akilah Lewis	Trinidad & Tobago	4x100
Remy Quow	Trinidad & Tobago	4x400
Portius Warren	Trinidad & Tobago	Shot Put
CJ Allen	United States	400H
Kenny Bednarek	United States	100M – 7th
Taliyah Brooks	United States	Heptathlon
Brittany Brown	United States	200m - BRONZE
Anna Cockrell	United States	400H - SILVER
Freddie Crittenden	United States	110H – 6th
Ryan Crouser	United States	Shot Put - GOLD
Vashti Cunningham	United States	High Jump – 5th
Annette Echikunwoke	United States	Hammer Throw - SILVER
Nikki Hiltz	United States	1500m – 7th
Charity Hufnagel	United States	High Jump
Alysha Johnson	United States	100H – 7th
Sam Kendricks	United States	Pole Vault - SILVER
Brynn King	United States	Pole Vault
Maggie Malone-Hardin	United States	Javelin
Katie Moon	United States	Pole Vault - SILVER
Chris Nilsen	United States	Pole Vault
Abdihamed Nur	United States	5000m
Keturah Orji	United States	Triple Jump – 9th
Payton Otterdahl	United States	Shot Put – 4th
Erin Reese	United States	Hammer Throw
Daniel Roberts	United States	110H – SILVER
Masai Russell	United States	100H - GOLD
Donald Scott	United States	Triple Jump
Karissa Schweizer	United States	5000m – 10th 10000m – 9th
Curtis Thompson	United States	Javelin
Bridget Williams	United States	Pole Vault
Capers Williamson	United States	Javelin
Tyus Wilson	United States	High Jump
Allie Wilson	United States	800m
Madison Wiltrout	United States	Javelin
Kara Winger	United States	Javelin
Rudy Winkler	United States	Hammer Throw – 6th
Zach Ziemek	United States	Decathlon – 19th