How the Ivy League shaped olympians

The Ivy League contingent consists of 82 Olympians, three Paralympians, and five coaches from all eight Ivy League institutions—Brown (6), Columbia (10), Cornell (5), Dartmouth (5), Harvard (15), Penn (8), Princeton (23) and Yale (18)—as well as 30-of-205 participating countries—the United States (34), American Samoa (1), Australia (5), Bermuda (1), Canada (3), Chile (1), China (1), Chinese Taipei (1), Denmark (1).

The Ivy League has a long history of Olympic influence, consistently ranking as the top NCAA conference in terms of Olympic participation. The League has 475 medals in total, including six in Rio 2016 and nine in PyeongChang 2018.

The following is the 2020 Ivy League footprint on Team USA:

The Ivy League will field 34 athletes on Team USA, making it one of only three conferences in the country to have all of its schools represented on the 2020 U.S. Olympic Team (Ivy League, Big 12 and SEC).

Ten Ivy Leaguers will return to the Olympics, including two medalists.

With nine US Olympians, Harvard is the only non-power Five school in the top-15 list of Team USA contributors.

All eight institutions had representation on the U.S. Olympic Rowing Team, composing nearly 45% of Team USA's roster. The only other conference with this milestone is the SEC in athletics. One-third of Team USA Fencing competed at Columbia, Harvard or Princeton. Three-hundred thirty-nine medals will be distributed in 33 disciplines during Tokyo, with Ivies competing in 12 of 33 sports: athletics, baseball/softball, basketball, equestrian, fencing, rowing, rugby, sailing, swimming, triathlon and wrestling.

Which Ivy League university had the most representatives? Princeton University has 23 students. Yale has 18, Harvard has 15, Columbia has 10, University of Pennsylvania has 8, Brown University has 6, Dartmouth College has 6, and Cornell University has 5. They represented 30 of the 205 countries represented at the Games.