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Best photos from Texas A&M medalists at the 2024 Paris Olympics

View some of the best photos from the Aggie medalist at from the 2024 Paris Olympics

The 2024 Paris Olympics has concluded, and the USA team ran away with 126 total medals tying China with 40 gold medals. In those 126 earned medals former Texas A&M athletes and staff captured eight medals for one of the Aggie’s best showing in Olympic history.

Joni Taylor – Women’s Basketball – Gold

Bryce Deadmon – Men’s 4x400m Relay – Gold

Shamier Little – Women’s 4x400m Relay – Gold

Austin Krajicek – Men’s Tennis Doubles – Silver

Bryce Deadmon – Mixed 4x400m Relay – Silver

Shamier Little – Mixed 4x400m Relay – Silver

Fred Kerley – Men’s 100m Dash – Bronze

Lindon Victor – Men’s Decathlon – Bronze

While the list above only includes the medalist there were a total of 22 former Aggie athletes who participated in the event representing Texas A&M well. With that being acknowledged below are some of the best photos from the Aggie medalist at the 2024 Paris Olympics.

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Texas A&M alumni duo set record to qualify for mixed 4×400 relay finals at Summer Olympics

A new world record was set in the mixed 4×400 meter relay at the Olympics and half of the history making team ran collegiately at Texas A&M.

A new world record was set in the mixed 4×400 meter relay on Friday at the 2024 Summer Olympic Games in Paris and half of the history making team ran collegiately at Texas A&M.

Former Aggies Bryce Deadmon and Shamier Little were joined by Vernon Norwood and Kaylyn Brown in finishing the race in 3:07.41.

“I always knew we were going to run fast,” Little said afterwards. “We talked about, you know it’s going to take a record to get a medal, but it took a record to win our prelim.”

The previous record was 3:08.80, set in 2023 by another group of Americans. Deadmon ran fastest among the bunch, doing so in a jaw-dropping 44.17 seconds.

“I guess we’ve got a lot left,” Deadmon said. “I didn’t think we were going to do that today, so I’m excited for tomorrow for sure.”

The quartet will go for the gold on Saturday at 1:55 p.m. CT.

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Two Aggie Olympians advance to the 4x400m world athletics championships finals

Two Aggie Olympians advance to the 4x400m world athletics championships finals

Two former Texas A&M track & field standouts, now Olympians, Bryce Deadmon and Charokee Young, have advanced to their respective men’s and women’s 4x400m finals in the 2022 World Athletics Championships, representing Team USA and Team Jamaica, respectively.

Deadmon ran the third, 400m leg for Team USA in heat one and handed the baton off with the second-fastest split of the day (44.48 seconds). Only Team USA teammate, Elija Godwin, ran a faster split (44.46 seconds). Both of these top split times propelled Team USA to run the fastest qualifying time of 2:58.96.

Young helped propel Team Jamaica to win heat two in their qualifying race, and finish third overall with a time of 3:24.23, as the anchor with a 50.22 second split. Young’s split was registered as the third-fastest split on the day.

The men’s and women’s 4x400m finals will be run tonight at 9:35PM CT and 9:50PM CT, respectively.