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.