Similar to the results of the Tokyo Olympics, women on the U.S. team will win more than half of the Olympic gold medals at the 2024 Paris Summer Olympics.
The U.S. soccer team’s win over Brazil on Saturday, August 10, added excitement to what was already a great Olympics for the U.S. women.
In a post-game interview with NBC Mike TiricoUS Coach Emma Hayes The coach praised her players’ tenacity. “As the game went on we got more aggressive and I was encouraging that,” she said. “The heart, the determination, the grit, everything about these players is unbelievable. I’m so proud.”
This will be the fourth consecutive Summer Olympics in which the U.S. women have won more medals than the U.S. men. As of Saturday evening, the U.S. women had won 58 percent of the U.S. medal total. Even midway through the Paris Games, Christine Brennan USA Today predicted that U.S. female athletes are “on pace to win more medals than U.S. male athletes” at a fourth consecutive Summer Olympics.
Coming into the final Olympic event, the US team was trailing China by one point in the gold medal race.
China won its 40th gold medal in the women’s 81kg category on Sunday. Li Wenwen She defended her title at the Tokyo Olympics, giving the U.S. 39 gold medals heading into the women’s basketball gold medal game between the U.S. team and France.
The U.S. team won the match in dramatic fashion, tying the teams for the gold medal.
“I saw the medal count beforehand and I thought, ‘We need more pressure,'” the U.S. coach said. Cheryl Reeve He said this after the game.
Of the 40 gold medals won by the U.S. team, 26 were won by women, and women accounted for 65% of the U.S. team’s gold medals at the Paris Olympics.
The result means half of the U.S. team outshone all other teams from nearly 200 countries, including 85 that won at least one medal. The top gold medal winners were Japan with 20, Australia with 18 and France with 16.
In comparison to the last Olympics, of the 39 gold medals won by the U.S. in Tokyo, 23 were won by women.
In Tokyo 2020, female participation reached 47.8%, the closest to gender balance in the Games’ history, but the Paris Games were the first to achieve full gender parity, with the International Olympic Committee allocating 50% of the spots to female athletes and 50% to male athletes.