With 39 gold medals at the 2021 Tokyo Olympics, the United States led all nations for the third straight Summer Games since 2012.
Though the total was Team USA’s lowest gold medal count since 2008, make no mistake, it’s still the team to beat in many competitions entering the 2024 Paris Olympics. You need not look further than the returning medalists looking to defend their titles.
That doesn’t include gold medalists from previous Olympics (Simon Biles!), which we won’t get to here. But below is a look at the 2021 gold medalists back for more this summer.
Men’s basketball 5×5
- Bam Adebayo
- Devin Booker
- Kevin Durant
- Jrue Holiday
- Jayson Tatum
Women’s basketball 5×5
- Napheesa Collier
- Chelsea Gray
- Brittney Griner
- Jewell Loyd
- Breanna Stewart
- Diana Taurasi
- A’ja Wilson
Canoe/kayak
- Nevin Harrison (canoe sprint: women’s single 200m)
Cycling
- Jennifer Valente (cycling track: women’s omnium)
Fencing
- Lee Kiefer (women’s foil individual)
Golf
- Nelly Korda
- Xander Schauffele
Gymnastics
- Jade Carey (artistic gymnastics: floor exercise)
- Suni Lee (artistic gymnastics: women’s all-around)
Paratriathlon
- Kendall Gretsch
Shooting
- Vincent Hancock (men’s skeet)
Surfing
- Carissa Moore
Swimming
- Caeleb Dressel (men’s 100m butterfly, 4x100m freestyle relay, 4x100m medley relay, 50m freestyle)
- Bobby Finke (men’s 1500m freestyle, 800m freestyle)
- Chase Kalisz (men’s 400m individual medley)
- Katie Ledecky (women’s 1500m freestyle, 800m freestyle)
- Ryan Murphy (men’s 4x100m medley relay)
Track & Field
- Valarie Allman (women’s discus)
- Rai Benjamin (men’s 4x400m relay)
- Ryan Crouser (men’s shot put)
- Bryce Deadmon (men’s 4x400m relay)
- Kendall Ellis (women’s 4x400m relay)
- Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone (women’s 4x400m relay, 400m hurdles)
- Katie Moon (women’s pole vault)
- Michael Norman (men’s 4x400m relay)
- Vernon Norwood (men’s 4x400m relay)
Volleyball
- Annie Drews
- Jordan Larson
- Chiaka Ogbogu
- Jordyn Poulter
- Kelsey Robinson-Cook
- Jordan Thompson
- Haleigh Washington
- Justine Wong Orantes
Water Polo
- Rachel Fattal
- Kaleigh Gilchrist
- Ashleigh Johnson
- Amanda Longan
- Maddie Musselman
- Maggie Steffens
