Team LGBTQ is currently tied for 15th place in the 2024 Paris Olympics medal count. That’s currently tied with Canada.
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 would have finished seventh overall in the medal count, if they were their own country.
The medal count for Team LGBTQ is currently 1 silver medal and 1 bronze medal.
Currently with 175 out athletes, Team LGBTQ has the 15th most athletes of the “countries” competing at these Paris Olympics. Athletes are being added almost daily to the list of publicly out gay, lesbian, bi and trans athletes competing at these Olympics. So the size of Team LGBTQ’s contingent will increase as we learn of more athletes living their lives openly.
Get off the sidelines and into the game
With so many of the out athletes in team sports, many of the medals that Team LGBTQ will win will come in the second week of the Olympics. Team LGBTQ often starts off slowly.
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Team LGBTQ has no gold medals as of now.
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’ silver medal was a lovely turn of events. She competes at the college level for Harvard.
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 broke down in tears after winning the medal.
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Outsports will be tracking the medal count for Team LGBTQ, and seeing where the team ranks against the participating nations, every day during the 2024 Olympics in Paris.
