USC OLYMPIC TIDBITS Most career medals: 9 (Allyson Felix) Most career gold medals: 6 (Allyson Felix) Most medals in one Olympics: 5 (John Naber, 1976) Most gold medals in one Olympics: 4 (John Naber, 1976) Most medals in individual events in one Olympics: 4 (Katinka Hosszu, 2016) Most Olympic appearances: 6 (Janice Lee York Romary) USC's first Olympian (and first medal winner) was Emil Breitkreutz, who won a bronze in the 800-meter run at the 1904 St. Louis Olympics. USC's first gold medalist was Fred Kelly in the 110-meter high hurdles in the 1912 Stockholm Games. High jumper Alma Richards also won a gold medal in those 1912 Games. USC’s oldest surviving Olympian is U.S. swimmer Iris Cummings Critchell (born Dec. 21, 1920) from the 1936 Berlin Games, followed by William Ross (born July 6, 1928), a U.S. water polo player in the 1956 Melbourne Games. USC's oldest surviving Olympic medalist is U.S. pole vaulter Ron Morris (born March 27, 1935), who won silver in the 1960 Games. USC's oldest surviving Olympic gold medalist is Australian swimmer Jon Henricks (born June 6, 1935), who won 2 golds in the 1956 Games. A number of Trojan relatives have competed in the Olympics, including father/daughter, brother/sister and brother/brother. Track sprinters Lennox (silver and bronze for Jamaica) and daughter Inger (gold for U.S.) Miller. William Sr. and daughter Joyce Horton, yachting in 1952 Helsinki Games. Swimmers Klete (5 medals, 2 golds) and sister Kalyn Keller. Swimmers and brothers Dan (gold, silver) and Lars Jorgensen. Brothers Byron and Wayne Black in the 1996 Olympics for Zimbabwe in tennis singles and doubles. Swimmers and brothers Joe and Mike Bottom (Mike was part of the U.S. team that boycotted the 1980 Games). Swimmers and brothers Bruce (2 golds in 1976) and Steve (a bronze in 1972) Furniss. Canadian swimming brothers Allen and Sandy Gilchrist, along with Sandy’s daughter, Kaleigh (water polo gold in 2016 for U.S.). Six Trojans appeared in the Olympics in 2 sports: Ira Courtney (track and baseball), Howard Drew (track and baseball), Conn Findlay (yachting and rowing), Robert Hughes (water polo and swimming), Fred Kelly (track and baseball) and Wallace Wolf (swimming and water polo). Findlay won 2 golds and a bronze in rowing and a bronze in yachting while appearing in 4 Olympics, Kelly won a gold (USC’s first ever) in track in the 1912 Stockholm Games and Wolf won a gold in swimming in the 1948 London Games. Courtney, Drew and Kelly played on the U.S. baseball team that finished first in the 1912 Olympics, but it was a demonstration sport and medals were not awarded. Three Trojans competed for 2 countries: volleyballer Terry Place Brandel (for the U.S. in 1980 and West Germany in 1984), swimmer Bjorn Zikarsky (for West Germany in 1988 and Germany in 1996, winning a bronze) and water poloist Aniko Pelle (for Hungary in 2004 and 2008 and Italy in 2012). USC’s first female Olympians were discus thrower Lillian Copeland (gold and silver for the U.S.) in the 1928 and 1932 Games and fencer Helene Mayer (gold for Germany) in 1928. Of USC’s 472 Olympians, 148 are female. USC’s first double gold medalist was Charles Paddock (100-meter dash and 400-meter relay) in the 1920 Games, when he also won a silver in the 200-meter dash. Clarence “Bud” Houser was the first Trojan to win double gold medals in individual events at a single Olympics (shot put and discus in 1924). Ous Mellouli of Tunisia became the first African male swimmer to win an Olympic gold medal in an individual swimming event when he captured gold in the 1500-meter freestyle in 2008 (it was just the second gold medal his country had ever earned). He got another gold, this time outdoors, when he won the open water 10K in 2012. Swimmer Jeff Float was the first legally deaf U.S. athlete to win an Olympic gold medal (1984 in the 800-meter freestyle relay). Sammy Lee was the first male to win back-to-back Olympic gold medals in platform diving (1948 and 1952) and the first Asian-American to win an Olympic gold medal for the U.S. In the 1960 Games, Paula Jean Myers Pope-Irwin became the first woman to attempt a double-twisting one-and-a-half somersault and an inward two-and-a-half somersault from the high platform in a diving competition (she won silver). Fifteen Trojans have carried their countries’ flag in the Olympics’ opening ceremonies, including 5 for the U.S. The Americans include 4 in the Summer Games—track thrower Clarence “Bud” Houser in 1928 (the first Trojan to ever carry a flag in an opening ceremony), shot putter Parry O’Brien in 1964, fencer Janice Lee York Romary in 1968 (she was the first woman to carry the U.S. flag in the opening ceremonies and the first Trojan female to carry a flag) and canoeist Cliff Meidl in 2000—and biathlete Lyle Barber Nelson in the 1988 Winter Games (the only Trojan to do so in a Winter Olympics). Other Trojan flag bearers (all in the Summer Olympics) were high jumper Simeon Toribio for the Philippines in 1936, hurdler Peter Ronson for Iceland in 1960, track thrower Les Mills for New Zealand in 1960 and 1972 (the first Trojan to carry a flag twice), sprinter Lennox Miller for Jamaica in 1972, sprinter Don Quarrie for Jamaica in 1976, sprinter James Gilkes for Guyana in 1980, hurdler Sau Ying Chan for Hong Kong in 1996, sprinter Natasha Mayers for St. Vincent and the Grenadines in 2004, hurdler Felix Sanchez for the Dominican Republic in 2008, swimmer Orn Arnarson for Iceland in 2008 and swimmer Ous Mellouli for Tunisia in 2016. Four Trojans were bearers of the ceremonial Olympic Flag at opening ceremonies: Sammy Lee, John Naber and Parry O’Brien in 1984 and Murray Rose in 2000. Four Trojans have carried their countries’ flag in the closing ceremonies of the Olympic Games. Sprinter Bryshon Nellum was chosen by the U.S. athlete delegation to carry the American flag in the 2012 Summer Games’ closing ceremony after winning a silver medal just 4 years removed from being shot in the leg and told he would never run again. Other Trojans who carried their country’s flag in closing Summer Games ceremonies were Dominican Republic hurdler Felix Sanchez in 2004 and 2012, Tunisian swimmer Ous Mellouli in 2012 and Hungarian swimmer Katinka Hosszu in 2016. Five Trojans were Winter Olympians (Lyle Nelson, Randy Gardner, Mike Gonzales, Jung-Hwa Seo, Don Young). Swimmer Ian Silverman, who has mild cerebral palsy, won a gold medal in the 400-meter freestyle in the 2012 Paralympic Games in London. 4-10-21 USC OLYMPIANS: 1904-2018 NAME (COUNTRY) YEAR (LOC.) SPORT EVENT MEDAL/PLACE Ablowich, Edgar (U.S.) '32 (Los Angeles) Track 1600m Relay Gold Abrahams, Guy (Panama) '76 (Montreal) Track 100m 5th 200m -- Akins, Sid (U.S.) '84 (Los Angeles) Baseball 2nd # Alade'fa, Kehinde (Nigeria) '96 (Atlanta) Track 400m Hurdles -- Al-Kudmani, Ahmad ‘00 (Sydney) Swimming 100m Breaststroke 56th (Saudi Arabia) ‘04 (Athens) Swimming 100m Breaststroke 47th tie Ali, Nia (U.S.) ‘16 (Rio de Janeiro) Track 100m Hurdles Silver Allan, Scott (U.S.) '72 (Munich) Yachting Flying Dutchman 23rd Althin, Nils (Sweden) '32 (Los Angeles) Boxing Welterweight 9th tie Amend, Eric (U.S.) '84 (Los Angeles) Tennis Singles 9th tie Anae, Tumua (U.S.) ‘12 (London) Water Polo Gold Anderson, Gary (Canada) '88 (Seoul) Swimming 200m Indv'l Medley 8th '92 (Barcelona) Swimming 200m Indv'l Medley 8th Anderson, Haley (U.S.) ‘12 (London) Swimming Open Water 10K Silver ‘16 (Rio de Janeiro) Swimming Open Water 10K 5th Anderson, Marvin (Jamaica) ‘08 (Beijing) Track 200m Second Round Anderson, Norman (U.S.) '24 (Paris) Track Shotput 5th Anderson, Otto (U.S.) '24 (Paris) Track Decathlon -- Anderson, Wayne (U.S.) '64 (Tokyo) Swimming 200m Breaststroke 7th Arbelbide, Garrett (U.S.) ’32 (Los Angeles Football -- 1st # Argue, Clifford (U.S.) '24 (Paris) Track Pentathlon 10th Arnarson, Orn (Iceland) ‘00 (Sydney) Swimming 200m Backstroke 4th 200m Freestyle 15th ‘04 (Athens) 50m Freestyle 54 ‘08 (Beijing) 100m Freestyle 49 100m Backstroke 35 Ayuso, Elias (Puerto Rico) ‘04 (Athens) Basketball 6th Babka, Rink (U.S.) '60 (Rome) Track Discus Silver Barak, Ron (U.S.) '64 (Tokyo) Gymnastics Team 7th All Around 39th tie Floor Exercise 54th tie Vault 95th tie Parallel Bars 45th tie Horizontal Bar 31st tie Rings 25th tie Pommel Horse 67th tie Barakat, Mohammed (U.S.) '84 (Los Angeles) Field Hockey 12th Barber, Richard (U.S.) '32 (Los Angeles) Track Long Jump 5th Barberie, Bret (U.S.) '88 (Seoul) Baseball 1st # Barnard, Arthur (U.S.) '52 (Helsinki) Track 110m Hurdles Bronze Barnes, Lee (U.S.) '24 (Paris) Track Pole Vault Gold '28 (Amsterdam) Track Pole Vault 5th Baron, McQuin (U.S.) ‘16 (Rio de Janeiro) Water Polo 10th Barrett, Casey (Canada) '96 (Atlanta) Swimming 200m Butterfly 11th Barrett, Tim (Bahamas) ’68 (Mexico City) Track Triple Jump 20th ’72 (Munich) Track Triple Jump 27th NAME (COUNTRY) YEAR (LOC.) SPORT EVENT MEDAL/PLACE Bayer, Herwig (Austria) '80 (Moscow) Swimming 100m Freestyle 22nd 100m Backstroke 20th Beaton, Rayfield (Guyana) '76 (Montreal)*** Track 800m -- Beauregard, Robin (U.S.) ‘00 (Sydney) Water Polo Silver ‘04 (Athens) Water Polo Bronze Beck, Kenneth (U.S.) '36 (Berlin) Water Polo 9th tie '48 (London) Water Polo 9th tie Becker, Carolyn (U.S.) '80 (Moscow)* Volleyball -- '84 (Los Angeles) Volleyball Silver Becker, Nick (U.S.) '92 (Barcelona) Volleyball Bronze Beckner, John “Jack” (U.S.) '52 (Helsinki) Gymnastics Team 8th All Around 81st Floor Exercise 84th tie Vault 87th tie Parallel Bars 81st tie Horizontal Bar 59th Rings 160th Pommel Horse 88th tie '56 (Melbourne) Gymnastics Team 6th All Around