Colorado State Olympians
Ram Recap from Tokyo Olympics
FORT COLLINS, Colo. – With Sunday’s closing ceremony, the 2020 Tokyo Olympics Games concluded, sending the current and former Rams back to their respective homes after competing on the biggest stage in athletics.FULL RELEASE
NBC Olympics will provide unprecedented coverage of the Opening Ceremony of the Tokyo Olympics on Friday, July 23, creating a full day of Olympic programming on NBC that culminates in what is always one of the most-watched nights in television with the primetime presentation of the Ceremony. The day will begin with the network’s first-ever live morning broadcast of an Opening Ceremony (LIVE STREAM LINK), followed by a special edition of TODAY with reaction and athlete interviews and then NBC’s first-ever Olympic Daytime show on the opening Friday of the Games.
SCHEDULE OF RAMS
**Times converted from Tokyo to Mountain Standard Time. Since Tokyo is 15 hours ahead, some dates will appear different than the all-sport schedule.
Women’s 4x400-Meter Relay (Lauren Gale | Team Canada) *Reserve
Finals | 4th Place
Women’s Discus Throw (Shadae Lawrence | Team Jamaica)
Finals | 7th Place
Men’s Shot Put (Mostafa Hassan | Team Egypt)
Finals | 8th Place
Women’s Basketball (Kim Mestdagh & Hanne Mestdagh | Team Belgium)
Quarterfinals Finish
Colorado State has a long and storied history participating in the Olympic Games, both on Team USA and representing other nations. Below are a list of athletes who have attended Colorado State University who participated in the Olympics. Data for athletes who represented the United States of America is pulled from the Team USA database which can be found HERE.
Name | Sport/ Year At CSU | Olympic Sport | Event | Year | Country | Location | Medals | ||
Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||||||
Glenn Morris | Football, Track & Field (CSU: 1931-34) |
Track and Field | Decathlon | 1936 | United States | Berlin, Germany | 1 | ||
Wendy Koenig Knudson | Track & Field (CSU: 1972-76) |
Track and Field | 800 Meters | 1972 | United States | Munich, West Germany | |||
800 Meters | 1976 | Montreal Quebec, Canada | |||||||
Pamela Greene | Track & Field (CSU: 1973-77) |
Track and Field | 200 Meters | 1972 | United States | Munich, West Germany | |||
200 Meters | 1976 | Moscow, Russia | 1 | ||||||
Greg DuHaime | Track & Field (CSU: 1973-77) |
Track and Field | 3000 Meter Steeplechase | 1984 | Canada | Los Angeles, California, United States | |||
Sherri Danielson* | Volleyball (CSU: 1982-85) |
Volleyball | Volleyball | 1988 | United States | Seoul, South Korea | |||
David Turcotte* | Basketball (CSU: 1973-77) |
Basketball | Basketball | 1988 | Canada | Seoul, South Korea | |||
Basketball | 1992 | Barcelona, Spain | |||||||
Scott Stoll | Track & Field (CSU: 1987-91) |
Bobsled | Bobsled | 1994 | United States | Lillehammer, Norway | |||
Amy Van Dyken | Swimming & Diving (CSU: 1993-94) |
Swimming | 100m Butterfly | 1996 | United States | Atlanta, Georgia, United States | 1 | ||
50m Freestyle | 1 | ||||||||
4x100m Medley | 1 | ||||||||
4x100 m Freestyle | 1 | ||||||||
Swimming | 4x100 m Medley | 2000 | Sydney, Australia | 1 | |||||
4x100 m Freestyle | 1 | ||||||||
Teri Klement Goldberg | Softball (CSU 1988-91) |
Softball | Softball | 2000 | United States | Sydney, Australia | |||
Libbie Hickman | Track & Field (CSU 1983-87) |
Track and Field | 10,000 Meters | 2000 | United States | Sydney, Australia | |||
Casey Malone | Track & Field (CSU: 1996-2000) |
Track and Field | Discus | 2004 | United States | Athens, Greece | |||
Discus | 2008 | Beijing, China | |||||||
Loree Smith | Track & Field (CSU: 2000-05) |
Track and Field | Hammer | 2008 | United States | Beijing, China | |||
Becky Hammon | Women's Basketball (CSU: 1996-99) |
Women's Basketball | Women's Basketball | 2008 | Russia | Beijing, China | 1 | ||
Women's Basketball | 2012 | London, United Kingdom | |||||||
Janay DeLoach | Track & Field (CSU: 2004-08) |
Track and Field | Long Jump | 2012 | United States | London, United Kingdom | |||
Long Jump | 2016 | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | 1 | ||||||
Andy Ogide | Basketball (CSU: 2008-11) |
Basketball | Basketball | 2016 | Nigeria | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | |||
Ben Pinkelman | Rugby^ | Rugby | Rugby | 2016 | United States | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | |||
Lauren Gale | Track & Field (CSU: 2019-Present) |
Track and Field | 4x400 Meter Relay | 2020 | Canada | Tokyo, Japan | |||
Mostafa Hassan | Track & Field (CSU: 2015-18) |
Track and Field | Shot Put | 2020 | Egypt | Tokyo, Japan | |||
Shadae Lawrence | Track & Field (CSU: 2018-19) |
Track and Field | Discus | 2020 | Jamaica | Tokyo, Japan | |||
Kim Mestdagh | Women's Basketball (CSU: 2008-12) |
Women's Basketball | Women's Basketball | 2020 | Belgium | Tokyo, Japan | |||
Hanne Mestdagh | Women's Basketball (CSU: 2011-15) |
Women's Basketball | Women's Basketball | 2020 | Belgium | Tokyo, Japan |
* Qualified for Olympic team as an alternate
^ Rugby is a club-level sport at Colorado State
# Ann Marie Flynn (1956, Track and Field) and Darius Young (1988, 1992, Shooting) attended Colorado State University but did not participate in collegiate sport.