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… into what coun- tries Wolverines hail from, what sports they perform best in and how they stack up against their Big Ten rivals. Michigan students per- form in the highest arenas of college sports…
…, and alumni have competed at the Olympics. The num- ber of Wolverines at each Olympiad has grown over time, and 38% of them have medaled. While the majority of those competitors hail from the…
… of them. The only non-American gold medal winner was Austra- lian John Davies in the 1952 200-meter breaststroke. Davies set an Olympic record in the event, some- thing Wolverine athletes…
… rest com- peted for Team USA. While the athletes head- ed to Tokyo might not challenge for such acclaim just yet, some Wolverines headed to the games domi- nated in their sports while on campus…
… track and field have been the bread and butter of Michigan Olympians. Eighty Wolverines have competed in swimming, 20 have dived and 67 have performed in track and field events…
… swimming. From Asia, two of three Wolverine Olympians competed in swimming or diving. The other was Ban- gladeshi gymnast Syque Caesar. This year, Siobhan Haughey and Jamie Yeung will add Hong…
… to breaking those records again on a much more intense stage in Tokyo. Some Wolverines will appear in their first Olym- piad this month. Michi- gan’s record for most Olympics belongs…