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When Trayvon Bromell<\/a>\u00a0(track and field), Brittney Griner (women’s basketball) and John Peers (tennis) compete this month at the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, they’ll\u00a0become the latest in a long line of Baylor athletes who have represented the green and gold on the world stage, symbolically receiving the torch from Baylor Olympians who came before them, dating as far back as 1904 (the third modern Olympics).<\/p>\n Most fans are aware of the accomplishments of iconic sprinter Michael Johnson<\/a>, BBA ’91, whose four gold medals earned him a spot amongst history\u2019s all-time greats, and more recent stars like three-time gold medalist Jeremy Wariner<\/a>. But did you know that legendary Baylor track and field coach Clyde Hart coached athletes who won gold medals in six straight Olympics<\/a>? Or that Baylor\u2019s first-ever gold medal was won by basketball player Jack Robinson, BA ’49, in 1948<\/a>?<\/p>\n The following Bears have represented Baylor in the Olympics across four\u00a0different sports and for five\u00a0other nations in addition to the U.S.A, winning 11\u00a0Olympic gold medals:<\/p>\n 1904 ST. LOUIS GAMES<\/strong> 1948 LONDON GAMES<\/strong> 1992 BARCELONA GAMES<\/strong> 1996 ATLANTA GAMES<\/strong> 2000 SYDNEY GAMES<\/strong> 2004 ATHENS GAMES<\/strong> 2008 BEIJING GAMES 2012 LONDON GAMES<\/strong> 2016 RIO GAMES<\/strong> In addition to those former student-athletes, head women\u2019s basketball coach Kim Mulkey was the point guard for the gold medal-winning USA women\u2019s basketball team at the 1984 games in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n The Baylor family can follow\u00a0Bromell and Griner in their\u00a0pursuit of the gold. Following tonight’s opening ceremonies, the USA women’s basketball team begins\u00a0preliminary play\u00a0Sunday, Aug. 7, while the men’s 100 meters first round is\u00a0Saturday, Aug. 13.<\/p>\n Sic \u2019em, Baylor Olympians!<\/p>\n [* De Souza competed in the 2016 Olympics shortly\u00a0before she enrolled at Baylor.]<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When Trayvon Bromell\u00a0(track and field), Brittney Griner (women’s basketball) and John Peers (tennis) compete this month at the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, they’ll\u00a0become the latest in a long line of Baylor athletes who have represented the green and gold on the world stage, symbolically receiving the torch from Baylor Olympians who came before […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni","category-athletics","category-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18867\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n* C.M. King, track and field – standing broad jump (silver)
\n* King, track and field – standing triple jump (silver)<\/p>\n
\n* Jack Robinson, basketball (gold)<\/p>\n
\n* Michael Johnson, track and field – 200 m
\n*\u00a0Johnson, track and field – 4 x 400 m relay (gold)<\/p>\n
\n* Johnson, track and field – 200 m (gold)
\n* Johnson, track and field – 400 m (gold)<\/p>\n
\n* Johnson, track and field – 400 m (gold)
\n* Johnson, track and field – 4 x 400 m relay
\n*\u00a0Barbara Petrahn, BBA ’03, track and field – 400 m (Hungary)<\/p>\n
\n* Bayano Kamani, BBA ’02, track and field – 400 m (Panama)
\n* Zsolt Szeglet, BSCS ’04, MBA ’06, track and field – 400 m (Hungary)
\n* Jared Theodorakos, BSED ’04, baseball (Greece)
\n* Jeremy Wariner, track and field – 400 m\u00a0(gold)
\n* Wariner, track and field – 4 x 400 m relay (gold)
\n* Darold Williamson, BSED ’11, track and field – 4 x 400 m relay \u00a0(gold)<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>* Kamani, track and field – 400 m (Panama)
\n* Petrahn, track and field – 400 m (Hungary)
\n* Wariner, track and field – 4 x 400 m relay (gold)
\n* Wariner, track and field – 400 m (silver)
\n* Reggie Witherspoon, BA ’14, track and field – 4 x 400 m relay (gold)<\/p>\n
\n* Wariner, track and field – 4 x 400 m relay (qualified, but missed games due to injury)<\/p>\n
\n* Trayvon Bromell, track and field – 100 m
\n* Bromell, track and field – 4 x 100 m relay
\n* Brittney Griner, women’s basketball (gold)
\n* John Peers, men’s tennis – doubles (Australia)
\n*\u00a0Leticia De Souza*, track and field – 4 x 400 m relay (Brazil)<\/p>\n