Team USA teammates, who also play together for the Phoenix Mercury in the WNBA: Brittney Griner, Diana Taurasi and Kahleah Copper. Together they, with their team, won gold at the Paris Olympics. | PAUL ELLIS/AFP via Getty Images

Team LGBTQ finished the 2024 Paris Olympics in 7th place in the total medal count with 43 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: 16 gold medals, 13 silver medals and 14 bronze medals.

If we measured with the traditional gold-silver-bronze method of ranking the medal count, Team LGBTQ in Paris would actually be in 6th place. That would, again, be Team LGBTQ’s best-ever finish — in Tokyo, they ranked 7th when golds were prioritized.

Outsports counts a team medal as one medal, just as other medal counts do. For example, there were at least four out women on the USA women’s rugby sevens team. That counts as one medal, for the entire team.

Currently with 195 out athletes and 42 overall medals, Team LGBTQ has the 14th most athletes of the “nations” competing at these Paris Olympics.

Athletes can still be added to the list of publicly out gay, lesbian, bi and trans athletes competing at these Olympics. So the size of Team LGBTQ’s contingent may still increase as we learn of more athletes living their lives openly.

The overall medal count is over 25% higher in Paris.

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Gold Medals

Breanna Stewart, Diana Taurasi, Alyssa Thomas, Brittney Griner, Jewell Loyd, Chelsea Gray, Kahleah Copper, USA, Basketball

This was one of the most publicly out teams of LGBTQ athletes and coaches at the Paris Olympics – over half of the Team USA women’s basketball team, and a couple coaches and staff, were publicly out. They beat host France in the gold medal match, 67-66.

Paola Egonu, Italy, Volleyball

Paola Egonu helped stop the United States from winning back-to-back Olympic gold medals, as Italy beat the USA in the final, 3-0.

Tierna Davidson, USA, Soccer

Tierna Davidson was the only publicly out LGBTQ athlete to play for the United States in the gold medal match against Brazil. USA topped Brazil and retiring legend Marta, 1-0.

Sha’Carri Richardson, USA, Track and Field

Sha’Carri Richardson followed up her 100-meter silver medal with gold in the women’s 4×100-meter relay, taking the baton in fourth place and lifting Team USA to gold on the final leg.

Ana Patricia, Brazil, Beach Volleyball

After winning gold and silver at the last two World Championships, Ana Patricia won gold with teammate Duda, beating the Canadian team, 2-1.

Anne Veenendaal and Marleen Jochems, Netherlands, Field Hockey

The Netherlands defeated China in a shootout in the final of the women’s field hockey competition, as goalie Anne Veenendaal stepped up big. The Dutch beat the Chinese in the shootout, 3-1.

Lara Vadlau, Austria, Sailing

Lara Vadlau and her mixed-gender dinghy partner, Lukas Maehr, won the first gold medal of the Paris Olympics for Austria.

Kellie Harrington, Ireland, Boxing

Champion again in the 60kg (lightweight) category, Kellie Harrington is a back-to-back gold medalist and the first woman to achieve this feat in Ireland’s Olympic history.

Maria Perez, Spain, Track and Field

Maria Perez won gold in the marathon race walk mixed relay, after earning a silver medal in the individual 20km event.

Svenja Brunckhorst, Germany, 3×3 Basketball

Svenja Brunckhorst is a professional basketball player in Germany and France who won gold for the German team.

Frederic Wandres, Germany, Equestrian

Frederic Wandres earned gold in the team dressage event.

Amandine Buchard, France, Judo

Amandine Buchard followed up her individual bronze medal with a mixed-team gold for France.

Alice Bellandi, Italy, Judo

Alice Bellandi won Italy’s first Olympic gold in judo since 2008. It was her second Olympic Games.

Lauren Scruggs, USA, Fencing

Lauren Scruggs followed up her individual silver medal in women’s foil with a team gold medal, along with the woman who beat her for gold, Lee Kiefer.

Portia Woodman-Wickliffe, New Zealand, Rugby Sevens

Portia Woodman-Wickliffe won her second straight Olympic gold, and third Olympic medal, in rugby for New Zealand.

Paula Camus, Spain, water polo

Camus was part of Spain’s first women’s water polo gold medal team, which beat Australia 11-9 in the final.

Silver Medals

Haleigh Washington, USA, Volleyball

Haleigh Washington and the United States women’s volleyball team followed up on their Tokyo Olympic gold with silver in Paris, losing in the final to Italy, 3-0.

Marta, Adriana, Tarciane, Tamires, Luciana, Lorena, Taina, Lauren Leal, Brazil, Soccer

The women’s soccer team of Brazil had the second most out LGBTQ athletes of any squad at the Paris Olympics, with at least eight (Australia had 12). The Brazilians lost to the USA in the gold medal match, 1-0.

Marianne Vos, Netherlands, Cycling

Marianne Vos won silver in the women’s road race. It’s her first Olympic medal since gold in 2012.

Cathrine Laudrup-Dufour, Denmark, Equestrian

Cathrine Laudrup-Dufour helped the Danes earn the silver medal in team dressage.

Michelle Kroppen, Germany, Archery

After a bronze women’s team medal in Tokyo, Michelle Kroppen earned silver in Paris in the mixed team event.

Sha’Carri Richardson, USA, Track & Field

Sha’Carri Richardson won a silver medal in the 100-meter dash, three years after her crushing removal from Team USA.

Emma Twigg, New Zealand, Rowing

Emma Twigg ended her Olympic career with a silver medal in single sculls.

Maria Perez, Spain, Track & Field

Maria Perez won a silver medal in the 20k race walk after finishing just off the medal podium in fourth at the Tokyo Olympics. She later won gold in the inaugural marathon race walk mixed relay.

Raz Hershko, Israel, Judo

Raz Hershko followed up her mixed-team bronze medal in Tokyo with an individual silver medal in Paris, in the +78kg category.

Perris Benegas, USA, BMX Freestyle

Perris Benegas hadn’t won a medal on the international stage until her silver medal in Paris. She celebrated by kissing her girlfriend.

Olivia Apps, Sophie de Goede, Maddy Grant, Canada, Rugby Sevens

Canada’s silver medal in women’s rugby sevens was a surprise to Australia, whom they beat in the semifinals.

Tom Daley, Great Britain, Diving

Tom Daley won his fifth medal at the Olympics — and his first silver — in the 10-meter platform synchro competition, with diving partner Noah Williams. It was a family affair for Daley.

Lauren Scruggs, USA, Fencing

Lauren Scruggs won a silver medal for the USA in what was the event’s first all-American final in women’s individual foil. Having entered the tournament ranked 11th in the world, Scruggs’ runner-up spot was a lovely turn of events. She would later help her team to gold as well.

Bronze Medals

Samantha Whitcomb, Amy Atwell, Australia, Basketball

Australia’s women’s basketball team returned to its Olympic form, winning a bronze medal for its first medal since 2012. Before the drought, the Aussies had won a medal in five straight Olympics.

Gabi Guimaraes, Ana Carolina Da Silva, Rosamaria Montibeller, Roberta, Brazil, Volleyball

Brazil beat Turkey, 3-1, in the bronze-medal match of the women’s indoor volleyball tournament. Brazil had been in three of the last four Summer Olympics finals.

Lea Schuller, Sara Doorsoun, Felicitas Rauch, Ann-Katrin Berger, Germany, Soccer

Germany, with at least four out LGBTQ players, beat Spain for the women’s soccer bronze medal, 1-0. Goalkeeper Ann-Katrin Berger had a late save on a penalty kick.

Laura Aarts, Netherlands, Water Polo

After winning the 2023 World Championship, Laura Aarts and her Netherlands team got bronze at the Paris Olympics, beating out the United States, 11-10.

Cindy Ngamba, Refugee Team, Boxing

Cindy Ngamba became the first athlete from the Refugee Olympic Team to ever win a medal at a Games, taking bronze in women’s 75kg (middleweight) boxing after a loss in the semifinal to Atheyna Bylon of Panama.

Nesthy Petecio, Philippines, Boxing

Nesthy Petecio won a 57kg (featherweight) bronze medal in what is likely her final Olympic Games.

Beatriz Ferreira, Brazil, Boxing

Beatriz Ferreira won her second Olympic medal, taking bronze after a loss to Kellie Harrington in the semifinal of the 60kg (lightweight) category.

Carl Hester, Great Britain, Equestrian

Carl Hester won his fourth Olympic medal, this time a bronze in team dressage.

Rafaela Silva, Brazil, Judo

Rafaela Silva didn’t earn an individual medal at these Olympics, but she was able to win a bronze in mixed-team judo.

Evy Leibfarth, USA, Canoe Slalom

Evy Leibfarth is the first American to compete in three canoe and kayak disciplines at an Olympic Games, coming away with a somewhat surprising bronze medal in the C1 canoe slalom.

Tabea Schendekehl, Germany, Rowing

Tabea Schendekehl had won two collegiate national titles in the United States before helping power the German quad sculls rowing team to a bronze.

Natalya Diehm, Australia, BMX Freestyle

Natalya Diehm won a bronze in BMX Freestyle, the first Olympic medal for Australia in the sport.

Lauren Doyle, Alev Kelter, Steph Rovetti, Kristi Kirshe, USA, Rugby Sevens

The United States earned its first-ever Olympic medal in rugby sevens, with some of the out athletes playing a major part.

Amandine Buchard, France, Judo

Amandine Buchard followed up her individual silver medal in the 52kg category in Tokyo with a bronze medal in front of her home crowd. She later took gold for the hosts in the mixed team event.

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