The Pack’s medal total in Paris is up to four.
Sunday was a good one for former NC State athletes, as Katharine Berkoff received a gold as a member of the US 4x100m medley relay team, while Diana Shnaider took home a silver medal in the women’s doubles tennis event.
Berkoff didn’t swim in the medley relay final but helped the US team get there by participating in the semifinals yesterday. The US won gold in dominant fashion this afternoon, setting a new world record in the process.
TEAM USA JUST CRUSHED THE WOMEN’S 400 MEDLEY RELAY WORLD RECORD!!!!!! pic.twitter.com/P68aMG8Zg4
— Kyle Sockwell (@kylesockwell) August 4, 2024
Shnaider and her partner, meanwhile, came up short in the women’s doubles gold medal match, but a silver medal isn’t a bad consolation prize. That is the first medal won by Russian athletes in Paris—all Russian representatives are competing as unaffiliated neutral athletes in these Games.
It’s also the first medal won by a former NC State tennis player, what with her being the first State tennis player ever to compete at the Olympics.
NC State alums have now accounted for four medals (Berkoff has two), so if NC State were its own country—a “Wolfpack nation,” if you will—it would be tied for 24th in the medal count.