Team LGBTQ finishes in 7th place in the Paris Olympics total medal count, with by far their most-ever medals
By Cyd Zeigler for Outsports –
Team LGBTQ finished the 2024 Paris Olympics in 7th place in the total medal count with 42 total medals, by far the most ever won by the collective Team LGBTQ. That’s ahead of every single country that criminalizes being gay, and it’s not far behind Japan’s 45 medals.
Outsports tracks all of the publicly out LGBTQ athletes together as Team LGBTQ, as though the out athletes made up a country’s team of their own. At the Tokyo Olympics, the 186 out LGBTQ athletes won 33 medals and would have finished 10th overall in the total medal count, if they were their own country.
The medal count for Team LGBTQ at the Paris Olympics came in at: 15 gold medals, 13 silver medals and 14 bronze medals.
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HRC Introduced the LGBTQ Athletes Here
At least 29 openly LGBTQ+ athletes were on Team USA’s Olympic roster this year, with most either playing basketball or rowing. A record-setting 186 out LGBTQ+ athletes participated in the Tokyo Summer Olympics in 2021, and this year there were at least 144 competing. There were also a number of firsts when it comes to LGBTQ representation this year: Kayla Miracle is the first out LGBTQ Olympic wrestler, and Nico Young is the first out gay male U.S. track Olympian, to name a few.
READ MORE HERE FOR ALL THE DETAILS FROM HRC
https://www.hrc.org/news/meet-out-athletes-in-the-2024-olympics
