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-9 posts tagged "2020 Olympics"
Observer Sports Staff | Tuesday, August 31, 2021
Former Irish track and field athlete Sam Grewe ’21 took home the gold medal in the Men’s T63 Paralympic high jump in Tokyo on Tuesday. At 23, the American Paralympian has already won two world championships: a Pan American gold medal and a Paralympic silver medal. He also holds the world record for T63 high
Observer Sports Staff | Monday, August 9, 2021
Jewell Loyd and Skylar Diggins-Smith, along with the rest of the USA Women’s basketball team, brought home the gold medal in a 90-75 win over Japan in the finals of the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. Loyd and Diggins-Smith, 2015 and 2013 graduates from Notre Dame, now play for the Seattle Storm and the Phoenix
Observer Sports Staff | Friday, August 6, 2021
Notre Dame alumna Molly Seidel won the bronze medal in the women’s marathon Saturday at the Tokyo Olympics. Seidel is only the third American woman to win an Olympic medal in the women’s marathon. The most recent American medal in the event came in 2004 from Deena Kastor, who also took home the bronze medal.
Observer Sports Staff | Tuesday, August 3, 2021
Notre Dame graduate student Yared Nuguse — who was supposed to be in heat 3 of the 1500m race at the Tokyo Olympics — pulled out of the competition Monday due to a strained quadriceps. Nuguse qualified for the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games this year by hitting a personal best of 3:34.68 in the 1500m,
Observer Sports Staff | Wednesday, July 28, 2021
Former Irish basketball star Jackie Young will take home a gold medal from the Olympic Games after she and the rest of Team USA’s women’s 3×3 basketball squad defeated the Russian Olympic Committee 18-15 on Wednesday. This will be the first gold medal for the 23-year-old Princeton, Indiana, native. She will add this to her
Observer Sports Staff | Sunday, July 25, 2021
Fencer Lee Kiefer won a gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics Sunday, becoming the first American woman to win a gold medal for Team USA in an individual foil event. The Notre Dame ’17 alumna won 15-13 against Inna Deriglazova of Russia in the women’s individual foil final, thus earning her first Olympic medal. Kiefer
Nate Moller | Tuesday, July 6, 2021
Notre Dame will be well represented in Tokyo, Japan, this summer with 20 athletes competing in the 2020 Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games. Basketball Notre Dame women’s basketball has been very strong over the last decade, and three former players were selected to their national teams this year. Skylar Diggins-Smith (USA) Diggins-Smith currently plays for
Holden Perrelli | Wednesday, April 17, 2019
Irish fencer Nick Itkin has accomplished a lot in little time. With his eyes set on qualifying for the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo, the sophomore appears well on his way with NCAA and junior world championships on his resume. From Los Angeles, California, Nick Itkin said he chose to pursue a collegiate fencing career at
Colleen Fischer | Wednesday, March 20, 2019
The Olympics have long served as home to some of the most inspirational and unifying sporting events in history. This is why when they decided to create an event for the only sport that I had a legitimate working knowledge of for the upcoming the 2020 games in Tokyo, I was relatively excited. I would