Kentucky Sports

Here are the current and former Kentucky Wildcats who won Olympic medals in Tokyo

Athletes with ties to the University of Kentucky secured 12 medals during the Tokyo Olympics the past two weeks.

Former Wildcats such as Sydney McLaughlin and Devin Booker, current Cats like Mary Tucker and Will Shaner and even a couple UK medical school students in Lee Kiefer and Gerek Meinhardt will be bringing home hardware from the Summer Games.

In all, UK athletes totaled eight gold medals, three silvers and one bronze.

Here is a breakdown of the winners:

Gold medals (8)

Bam Adebayo: Men’s basketball.

Devin Booker: Men’s basketball.

Jasmine Camacho-Quinn: Women’s 100-meter hurdles.

Lee Kiefer: Women’s individual foil fencing.

Keldon Johnson: Men’s basketball.

Sydney McLaughlin: Women’s 400-meter hurdles, Women’s 4-by-400-meter sprint relay.

Will Shaner: Men’s 10-meter air rifle.

Silver medals (3)

Kendra Harrison: Women’s 100-meter hurdles.

Javianne Oliver: Women’s 4-by-100-meter sprint relay.

Mary Tucker: Mixed air rifle.

Bronze medals (1)

Gerek Meinhardt: Team foil fencing.

This story was originally published August 7, 2021 at 11:55 AM.

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