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Trojans in Tokyo Olympics

Trojans in Tokyo Olympics

USC Marshall students and alumni make big showing at the Summer Games 
07.23.21
Marshall student Anicka Delgado swims for Ecuador in the 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics
Marshall student Anicka Delgado swims for Ecuador in the 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics. 

A record 66 USC athletes — more than any U.S. university — will compete in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Eight of them are past, present, or future students of the USC Marshall School of Business.

Coming into the 2020 Games, USC has sent more athletes to the Summer and Winter Olympics, who have won more medals—and more gold medals—than any other U.S. university. From the 1904 Summer Games through the 2018 Winter Olympics, there have been 472 athletes who attended USC before, during or after their Olympic appearance. They have collected 305 medals (142 gold, 91 silver and 72 bronze), including at least one gold medal in every Summer Olympics since 1912. If USC competed separately, its 305 medals would rank 13th most in the world, while its 142 gold medals would be tied for 11th most. 

Here is the list of this year’s Marshall Olympians, representing five countries in addition to the United States in four sports: track, water polo, swimming and baseball.

Dalilah Muhammad (USA) BS ’12 Track (400m hurdles)

Kendall Ellis (USA) BS ’17 Track (1600m relay)

Lachlan Edwards (Australia) BS ’19 Water Polo

Louise Hansson (Sweden) BS ’20 Swimming (100m butterfly, 400m free relay)

Marko Vavic (USA) BS 21 Water Polo

Anicka Delgado (Ecuador) BS ’23 Swimming (100m freestyle)

Evangelos Makrygiannis (Greece) BS ’21 Swimming (400m medley relay)

Ben Wanger (Israel) MS 20 Baseball

Fans can go to olympics.usctrojans.com to follow USC’s Tokyo Olympians. The site will include a daily schedule of events and results involving Trojan Olympians, an updated USC medal count, a roster with biographical information on each Trojan in Tokyo, pertinent news releases and USC’s Olympic history. 

USC fans can also support and watch Trojan athletes on television and online from the July 23 Opening Ceremonies to Aug. 8’s Closing Ceremonies. Follow USC Athletics on TwitterFacebook and Instagram for the latest updates, as well as USC’s individual sports’ social accounts. 

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