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Former Ohio State athlete wins gold in Paris Summer Olympic games

In case you missed it, a little gold to go with the colors of Scarlet and Gray. #GoBucks

Former Ohio State swimmer Hunter Armstrong took home the United State’s first gold medal of the 2024 Paris Summer Olympic games on Saturday. He did it as a part of the Americans’ 4×100 meter freestyle relay team.

Not only did he participate, he put together the best split (46.75 seconds) of any of the four swimmers on the team during the third leg of the final to allow fellow teammate Caleb Dressel to cruise towards the victory.

The victory was the U.S.’s third victory in a row in the 4×100. Australia finished second with a time of 3:10.35, just ahead of Italy that clocked in at 3:10.7.

It’s the second time Armstrong has struck gold, adding to his gold medal in the Tokyo games in 2021, where he swam the backstroke in the preliminary rounds of the 4×100 medley relay winning team.

Armstrong still has one more opportunity for a medal when he swims the 100-meter backtroke. The qualifying heats and semifinals of that event will begin on Sunday.

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Photos of Notre Dame’s Chris Guiliano winning first Olympic gold

Congrats, Chris and the rest of the team!

Through the first full day of competition at the 2024 Olympics, the U.S. won only one gold medal. Fortunately for Notre Dame fans, one of their own was involved with that.

[autotag]Chris Guiliano[/autotag], who still swims for the Irish, won his first Olympic gold medal and the first gold medal for the U.S. in Paris. He did with the help of teammates Jack Alexy, Hunter Armstrong and Caeleb Dressel. Together, they won the 4×100-meter freestyle relay in 3 minutes, 9.28 seconds, missing the world record by a measly 1.04 seconds. Australia won the silver, and Italy took the bronze.

Guiliano swam the second leg of the relay and had to battle from behind. However, it was he who gave his team the lead, one it would not relinquish and only continue to build. It was the fourth time in five Olympics the U.S. has won gold in this event.

Here are some images from a memorable day for Guiliano:

Former Ohio State swimmer Hunter Armstrong clinches spot on U.S. Olympic team

Armstong is going back to the Olympics. #GoBucks

Ohio State swimmer Hunter Armstrong will be heading to his second Olympic games, but the atomatic qualification came in a discipline that isn’t the one you’d probably think.

Armstrong is the world record holder in the long course 50 meter backstroke, but finished in second place this year in the 100 backstroke and had to wait to see if that secured a spot as a top eight finisher. It took a furious rally to even get in that position after seemingly slipping off of the starting block.

The good news? It was indeed good enough. However, he did punch a ticket to Paris prior to that by finishing fourth in the 100 meter free at the U.S. trials to qualify for the men’s 4×100 free relay team.

Armstrong is the only current, former, or future Ohio State swimming and diving team member to make the U.S. team, but either way, we’ll be rooting for the Dover, Ohio native to be a great ambassador for the Scarlet and Gray.

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Notre Dame’s Chris Guiliano wins 100 freestyle at U.S. Olympic trials

Go for the gold in Paris, Chris!

Notre Dame’s [autotag]Chris Guiliano[/autotag] always will remember the 2024 U.S. Olympic Swimming Trials at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis. Largely overlooked going into the 100-meter freestyle, the reigning ACC Swimmer of the Year surprised everyone by dominating the event. It culminated with a win in the final with a time of 47.38 seconds. Here’s the final in its entirety:

A surprising number of Irish fans made the trip, and they made their feelings about Guiliano’s victory loud and clear:

This victory qualifies Guiliano for his first spot on the U.S. team for the Paris Olympics. The U.S. has won gold in this event in two of the past three Olympics. Caeleb Dressel took the gold in Tokyo, but his third-place finish in Giuliano’s triumph means he won’t get a chance to defend that medal.

Guiliano also qualified for the 4×100 relay team simply by finishing in the top four. His teammates will consist of Dressel, Jack Alexy and Hunter Armstrong.

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Ohio State swimmers help earn six medals at World Championships

Keep an eye on Hunter Armstrong as the next Summer Olympic Games get closer. He’s a budding star in USA Swimming. #GoBucks

Led by Hunter Armstrong, there was a distinct scarlet and gray hue to the 2022 FINA World Championships. All told six medals were awarded with a Buckeye taking some sort of responsibility.

The bulk of the hardware was by a budding star that you might want to keep tabs on before the 2024 Summer Olympic Games in Paris. Buckeye swimmer Hunter Armstong, the current world record holder in the 50m backstroke was a star for Team USA.

The other Buckeye that had a hand in bringing a medal home, this time for Team Canada, was Ruslan Gaziev. Here’s how the events that OSU swimmers had a hand in played out.

Revisiting the four Buckeyes that won Olympic medals in Tokyo

Here are all four Buckeyes that took home some hardware from Tokyo, including the results.

I can finally get some sleep.

If you’re like me, the Olympics come and you fascinate on it for two weeks, staying up way later than any human being should, go to bed, then get up for work, extremely sleep deprived then rinse and repeat. Then, as quickly as it changed your way of life for a couple weeks, it is gone. Welcome back to reality.

But hey, it’s time to take stock in how things went with former and current Ohio State athletes out in Tokyo now that all the gold, silver, and bronze dust has settled. All told, 26 Buckeyes took place in all the Olympic fun and a few of them walked away with some hardware around their neck.

We thought it’d be a good time to reflect upon the scarlet and gray hue of the 2020 Olympics and share it with you. All told, four former OSU athletes walked away with a medal and we’re sharing those with you.

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Ohio State swimmer Hunter Armstrong officially an olympian for Team USA

Ohio State backstroke specialist Hunter Armstrong has been officially announced as a representative for Team U.S.A. at the Summer Olympics.

Ohio State rising junior Hunter Armstrong has officially made the U.S. Olympic team that will be heading to Japan later in July. He did it by finishing second in the 100m backstroke with a personal-best swim of 52.48 seconds in the finals Tuesday evening. He finished second to 2016 100m and 200m backstroke gold medalist and world-record holder Ryan Murphy, who won with a time of 52.33 seconds.

“We are so incredibly thrilled for Hunter and the opportunity he now has to represent the United States at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics,” Bill Dorenkott, Ohio State director of swimming and diving said in a statement from the university. “He is swimming extremely well and is within striking distance of the world record (51.97 set by Murphy in 2016). I think he will have some terrific Olympic Games swims.”

Armstrong is the first Ohio State male swimmer to make the U.S. Olympic swimming team in 65 years when the 1956 Summer Olympics were held in Melbourne, Australia. Then, Ford Kono, George Onekea, Yoshi Oyakawa, and Albert Wiggins represented Ohio State for the U.S.A.

Next, it’s off to Hawaii for Hunter to train with the rest of the U.S.A. swimming squad before heading off to Tokyo for all of the Olympic festivities.

Congrats to Armstrong, and now you can add a little scarlet and gray to the red, white, and blue in the pool for the United States.