Houston sprinters Shaun Maswanganyi and junior Louie Hinchliffe successfully reached the podium in the 2024 Paris Olympics. On Friday, the duo took home silver and bronze in the men’s 4×100-meter relay inside Stade de France.
The pair is the first UH Olympians to medal since 2016 when Tania Cagnotto earned silver in the 3-meter synchronized diving and bronze in the 3-meter diving for Italy.
South Africa set a record time of 37.57 to take the silver. Maswanganyi ran the second leg and posted a time of 9.06.
Maswanganyi became the Cougar’s first track & field athlete to become a silver medalist since head coach Carl Lewis placed second in the 200-meter in 1988.