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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.
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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.