The belated 2020 Summer Olympics had its opening ceremony in Tokyo on July 23. Among the athletes who took part in the games over the next 16 days were 29 who had ties to the University of Texas, either as current or former athletes, incoming freshmen, or committed recruits. Some of them had disappointing finishes in Tokyo compared with their past performances, but the Longhorn contingent at the Olympics had a successful run, by any measure.
Those 29 athletes came home with 11 total medals (6 gold, 4 silver, and 1 bronze). If UT were its own country, those 11 medals would have tied it with the Czech Republic and Denmark for 23rd on the 2020 Olympics medal count, and only 14 countries won more than 6 gold medals.