TOKYO -- The Ivy League continued to build upon its storied success in the Olympic Games as 91 past, present and future Ivies competed in the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo, Japan.
 
2020 Tokyo Olympic Games
11,091 athletes, 205 countries, 339 events.
 
Ivies in Tokyo Bring Home 11 Medals
 
Harvard graduate Gabrielle Thomas led the charge with two medals. Representing the United States, Thomas first claimed bronze in the women’s 200m clocking a 21.87.
 
Three days later, she added a silver medal to her collection after running for Team USA in the 4x100m relay finals. Thomas is the first Harvard women’s track & field alumna to win an Olympic medal and is the first Harvard women to win two medals at an Olympic Games.
 
Ashleigh Johnson, former Princeton water polo goalkeeper, claimed her second consecutive gold medal and earned the final medal for the Ivies in Tokyo after making 11 saves against Spain to lead Team USA to a 14-5 win.
 
Dan Williamson, a current member of the Yale men’s heavyweight crew, won his first Olympic medal, claiming Gold in the men’s eight for Team New Zealand with a time of 5:24.64. Just a second behind Williamson was the Great Britain crew including Princeton’s Tom George and additional Yalies, Ollie-Wynne-Griffith and Charlie Elwes. The British secured bronze with a time of 5:25.74.
 
Cornell alumnae Taylor Knibbthe youngest U.S. female triathlete in history, won the first-ever silver medal in the Olympic debut of the triathlon mixed relay event. The mixed team relay is a mixed-gender event, consisting of two male and two female athletes on a team. Each athlete must complete a short-course race of 300-meter swim, 6.8km bike and 2km run.
 
Additionally for Cornell, Kyle Dake made Big Red wrestling history after he fought his way through the repechage bracket to a bronze medal by defeating Italy’s Frank Chamizo 5-0.
 
Janet Leung , the first Brown softball Olympian, assisted Team Canada in winning their first Olympic medal in softball after defeating Mexico 3-2 in the bronze medal game.
 
The Tokyo 2020 bronze medal is the best finish Canada has had in the Olympic games after placing fourth at Beijing 2008.
 
Former Tiger Fred Vystavel claimed a bronze medal for Denmark after he and his 2- partner Joachim Sutton crossed the line at 6:19.88. Vystavel earned Princeton’s 60^th Olympic medal.
 
 
Well Represented
 
Ivies in Tokyo had 91 participants, the largest number of representatives in Ivy League history. The 91 representatives were also sixth-most of any conference in collegiate athletics, just behind the SEC, ACC, Big Ten, Big 12 and PAC-12.  
 
Throughout the two weeks, the Ivy League continued its storied tradition of Olympic influence, adding 11 medals to the now 486 medals all-time.
 
The 2020 Ivy League footprint on Team USA was as follows:

• 34 Ivies competed on Team USA and was one of three conferences in the country to have all its schools represented on the 2020 U.S. Olympic Team (Ivy League, Big 12 and SEC).
• 10 Ivies were returning Olympians, including two medalists.
• Harvard was the only non-power Five school in the top-15 list of contributors to Team USA with nine U.S. Olympians.
• All eight institutions had representation on the U.S. Olympic Rowing Team, composing nearly 45% of Team USA's roster. The only other conference with this milestone is the SEC in athletics.
• One-third of Team USA Fencing competed at Columbia, Harvard or Princeton. 

 
Ivies in Tokyo represented 30 different countries and competed in 12 different sports.
 
Princeton led the way with 18 athletes, followed by Yale (17), Harvard (14), Columbia (9), Penn (9), Brown (6), Cornell (5) and Dartmouth (5). Moreover, the Yale fencing coach was appointed President of China Fencing for the Games and four Princeton coaches filled in coaching and team director roles Team USA. Three representatives from Columbia, Harvard and Princeton competed in the Paralympic Games.
 
Top 10 Finishes
Multiple of Ivies finished just outside of medal contention, but still cemented their status as some of the most elite athletes with top-10 finishes on the world stage.
 
Brown:

• 4^th Place- Alex Miklasevich, Rowing, USA
• 5^th Place- Anders Weiss, Rowing, USA
• 10^th Place- Cicely Madden, Rowing, USA

 
Columbia:

• 4^th Place- Charlotte Buck, Rowing, USA
• 4^th Place- Jackie Dubrovich, Team Foil, USA
• 4^th Place- Nicole Ross, Team Foil, USA
• 5^th Place- Jake Hoyle, Team Épée, USA
• 8^th Place- Jake Buczek, Rowing, Canada

 
Cornell:

• 5^th Place- Michael Grady, Rowing, USA
• 7^th Place- Rudy Winkler, Athletics, USA
• 10^th Place- Tracey Eisser, Rowing, USA

 
 
Dartmouth:

• 5^th Place- Molly Reckford, Rowing, USA
• 6^th Place- Madison Hughes, Rugby, USA
• 6^th Place- Ariana Ramsey, Rugby, USA

 
Harvard:

• 4^th Place- Olivia Coffey, Rowing, USA
• 4^th Place- Liam Corrigan, Rowing, USA
• 4^th Place- Conor Harrity, Rowing, USA
• 4^th Place- Alexander Richards, Rowing, USA
• 5^th Place- Clark Dean, Rowing, USA
• 5^th Place- Andrew Reed, Rowing, USA
• 6^th Place- Cheta Emba, Rugby, USA
• 6^th Place- Juri-Mikk Udam, Rowing, Estonia

 
Penn:

• 4^th Place- Regina Salmons, Rowing, USA
• 8^th Place- Sam Mattis, Athletics, USA

 
Princeton:

• 4^th Place- Nick Mead, Rowing, USA
• 5^th Place- Gevvie Stone, Rowing, USA
• 6^th Place- Tim Masters, Rowing, Australia
• 6^th Place- Eliza Stone, Team Sabre, USA
• 7^th Place- Claire Collins, Rowing, USA
• 7^th Place- Hannah Scott, Rowing, Great Britain
• 8^th Place- Mohamed Hamza, Team Foil, Egypt
• 9^th Place- Lizzie Bird, Athletics, Great Britain
• 9^th Place- Julia Ratcliffe, Athletics, New Zealand

 
 
Yale:

• 4^th Place- Sholto Carnegie, Rowing, Great Britain
• 5^th Place- Christina Bourmpou, Rowing, Greece
• 5^th Place- Kristina Wagner, Rowing, USA
• 6^th Place- Simon Keenan, Rowing, Australia
• 8^th Place- Jack Lopas, Rowing, New Zealand
• 9^th Place, Andrin Gulich, Rowing, Switzerland
• 9^th Place, Paul Jacquot, Rowing, Switzerland

 

 

Olympians: 

Name	Institution	Sport	Country
Cicely Madden	Brown	Rowing	USA
Alex Miklasevich	Brown	Rowing	USA
Anders Weiss	Brown	Rowing	USA
Janet Leung	Brown	Softball	Canada
Jagger Stephens	Brown	Swimming	Guam
Hanna Barakat	Brown	Athletics	Palestine
Robb Paller	Columbia	Baseball	Israel
Maodo Lo	Columbia	Basketball	Germany
Jackie Dubrovich	Columbia	Fencing	USA
Jake Hoyle	Columbia	Fencing	USA
Nicole Ross	Columbia	Fencing	USA
Nadia Eke	Columbia	Athletics	Ghana
Charlotte Buck	Columbia	Rowing	USA
Jake Buczek	Columbia	Rowing	Canada
Yasmeen Al Dabbagh	Columbia	Athletics	Saudi Arabia
Tracy Eisser	Cornell	Rowing	USA
Michael Grady	Cornell	Rowing	USA
Rudy Winkler	Cornell	Athletics	USA
Taylor Knibb	Cornell	Triathlon	USA
Kyle Dake	Cornell	Wrestling	USA
Isalys Quiñones	Dartmouth	Basketball	Puerto Rico
Dong Seon (Peter) Kim	Dartmouth	Equestrian	South Korea
Molly Reckford	Dartmouth	Rowing	USA
Ariana Ramsey	Dartmouth	Rugby	USA
Madison Hughes	Dartmouth	Rugby	USA
Eli Dershwitz	Harvard	Fencing	USA
Olivia Coffey	Harvard	Rowing	USA
Liam Corrigan	Harvard	Rowing	USA
Clark Dean	Harvard	Rowing	USA
Sam Hardy	Harvard	Rowing	Australia
Josh Hicks	Harvard	Rowing	Australia
Conor Harrity	Harvard	Rowing	USA
Andrew Reed	Harvard	Rowing	USA
Alexander Richards	Harvard	Rowing	USA
Juri-Mikk Udam	Harvard	Rowing	Estonia
Cheta Emba	Harvard	Rugby	USA
Umitcan Gures	Harvard	Swimming	Turkey
Gabrielle Thomas	Harvard	Athletics	USA
Kieran Tuntivate	Harvard	Athletics	Thailand
Jasmine Chen	Penn	Equestrian	Chinese Taipei
Shaul Gordon	Penn	Fencing	Canada
Katina Proestakis	Penn	Fencing	Chile
Blake Broszus	Penn	Fencing	Canada*
Dara Alizadeh	Penn	Rowing	Bermuda
Regina Salmons	Penn	Rowing	USA
Keanan Dols	Penn	Swimming	Jamaica
Sam Mattis	Penn	Athletics	USA
Connie Hsu	Penn	Tennis	Chinese Taipei
Kat Holmes	Princeton	Fencing	USA
Anna van Brummen	Princeton	Fencing	USA
Mohammed Hamza	Princeton	Fencing	Egypt
Eliza Stone	Princeton	Fencing	USA
Lizzie Bird	Princeton	Athletics	Great Britain
Nathan Crumpton	Princeton	Athletics	American Samoa
Sondre Guttormsen	Princeton	Athletics	Norway
Julia Ratcliffe	Princeton	Athletics	New Zealand
Ed Trippas	Princeton	Athletics	Australia
Claire Collins	Princeton	Rowing	USA
Tom George	Princeton	Rowing	Great Britain
Tim Masters	Princeton	Rowing	Australia
Nick Mead	Princeton	Rowing	USA
Kathleen Noble	Princeton	Rowing	Uganda
Hannah Scott	Princeton	Rowing	Great Britain
Gevvie Stone	Princeton	Rowing	USA
Fred Vystavel	Princeton	Rowing	Denmark
Ashleigh Johnson	Princeton	Water Polo	USA
Eric Brodkowitz	Yale	Baseball	Israel*
Ryan Lavarnway	Yale	Baseball	Israel
Ben Wanger	Yale	Baseball	Israel
Miye Oni	Yale	Basketball	Nigeria
Christina Bourmpou	Yale	Rowing	Greece
Charlie Elwes	Yale	Rowing	Great Britain
Sholto Carnegie	Yale	Rowing	Great Britain
Andrin Gulich	Yale	Rowing	Switzerland
Paul Jacquot	Yale	Rowing	Switzerland
Simon Keenan	Yale	Rowing	Australia
Jack Lopas	Yale	Rowing	New Zealand
Stephan Riemekasten	Yale	Rowing	Germany*
Dan Williamson	Yale	Rowing	New Zealand
Kristina Wagner	Yale	Rowing	USA
Ollie Wynne-Griffith	Yale	Rowing	Great Britain
Stu McNay	Yale	Sailing	USA
Aliya Boshnak	Yale	Athletics	Jordan

*Denotes alternate

 

Coaches: 

Kate Bertko	Princeton	Rowing- Coach	USA
Mike Zimmer	Princeton	Rowing-Team Director	USA
Zoltan Dudas	Princeton	Fencing- Coach	USA
Oleg Stetsiv	Princeton	Fencing-Coach	USA
Haibin Wang	Yale	Fencing- President	China

 

Paralympians:

John Tanguay	Columbia	Rowing- Mixed 4 w/ Coxswain	USA
David Abrahams	Harvard	Swimming- 100 Breast, 100 Fly, 200 IM	USA
Brad Snyder	Princeton	Men’s Triathlon	USA

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