UCLA owns one of the richest Olympic traditions of any University. Some of the all-time Olympic greats, such as - Jackie Joyner-Kersee, Karch Kiraly, Lisa Fernandez and Florenth Griffith Joyner - to name a few, competed as undergraduates at UCLA.

Overall, UCLA has won 230 medals - 110 gold, 64 silver and 56 bronze. The Bruins have had at least one competitor in every Olympics since 1920 with one exception (1924), and UCLA has won a gold medal in every Olympics since 1932 with the exception of 1980 (boycott).

Over the past nine decades, 443 men and women athletes, coaches and trainers have represented UCLA in the Summer Olympic Games. The first two Bruin Olympians participated in 1920, just one year after the founding of the university. Edward S. Butler competed in the long jump and Clyde A. Swendsen was a member of the water polo team.

In the 2008 Summer Olympic Games in Beijing, 41 Bruins participated as athletes or coaches and won 19 medals - 6 gold, 11 silver and 2 bronze (includes two golds and one silver for coaches).

In the 2004 Summer Olympic Games in Athens, Greece, UCLA ranked No. 1 among all universities in number of different medalists (19) and number of Olympians (57 representing the United States and 13 foreign countries). Current and former Bruins earned a total of 19 medals, including eight gold, to rank second in both categories. UCLA also claimed three silver medals and eight bronze medals.

If UCLA were a country, it would have placed 14th overall in the medal count.

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