Blake Pieroni, Anna Peplowski and Lilly King — three names that will forever be linked as the Indiana University representatives with medals from the 2024 Paris Olympic Games.
Pieroni achieved the honor first, securing the silver medal for Team USA in the men’s 4x200-meter freestyle relay. In the women’s edition of the event, rising senior Anna Peplowski earned the silver medal with Team USA.
In King’s first two events of Paris 2024, she finished fourth in the 100-meter breaststroke and failed to qualify for the finals of the 200-meter breaststroke. But in her final event of the Games and her Olympic career, King won gold for Team USA in the 4x100-meter medley relay.
Elsewhere in the Olympics, past and present IU athletes participated in their respective events. Besides the medal winners, Indiana sent five swimming and diving members to Team USA.
Rising senior Carson Tyler competed in both the men’s 3-meter springboard and the 10-meter platform events, finishing fourth in the 3-meter and failing to advance past the preliminary round in the 10-meter.
Indiana alum Andrew Capobianco competed alongside Tyler in the 3-meter, but he failed to make it out of the semifinals. Fellow alum Jessica Parratto competed in the women’s synchronized 10-meter platform with Delaney Schnell, finishing sixth with a score of 287.52, 16.86 points behind the bronze medalists.
Rising senior Mariah Denigan made history as the first Indiana athlete to ever compete in an open water swimming event and only the fourth American to compete in the event in USA Olympic history. She finished 16th in the women’s marathon swimming event.
In the men’s 200-meter breaststroke, rising senior Josh Matheny finished sixth in the medal race.
Beyond Team USA, Indiana had many athletes competing for nations around the globe.
Rising senior Rafael Miroslaw featured in three different events for Germany, his best being the men’s 4x100-meter freestyle relay in which he helped his group finish seventh in the medal race. He also finished eighth in the 4x100-meter freestyle relay final and reached the semifinals of the 200-meter freestyle.
Another rising senior competing at the Olympics was Tomer Frankel, who swam in four events for Israel. His best finish was in the men’s 4x200-meter freestyle relay, where Israel finished ninth and .66 seconds behind Miroslaw and Germany. In his other three events, Frankel failed to make it out of the preliminary heats.
Former Hoosier Marwan Elkamash swam the men’s 800-meter freestyle for Egypt, finishing eighth in the preliminaries. Kotryna Teterevkova, who spent the year training with Indiana, finished fifth in the medal race for Lithuania in the women’s 200-meter breaststroke.
Rising senior Ching Hwee Gan competed for Singapore in the women's 800-meter freestyle, 1500-meter freestyle and 4x100-meter medley.
With the three podium finishes, Indiana University raises its medal count to 127, including 62 gold, 27 silver and 38 bronze.
