Olympics 2024: DMV Athletes To Look Out For

The DMV area has a river of DMV athletes with talent flowing from it, even to the 2024 Paris Olympics. Legend Kevin Durant has already done us proud in the basketball team’s first match against Serbia by amassing 23 points. His next match is tomorrow, July 31.  

Nevertheless, there are more talents in this river to follow as they flow seamlessly and skillfully at the 34th Summer Games. 

We have Nineteen DMV athletes who are competing in this year’s games, which continue until August 11

In Swimming, we have four: Bethesda’s gold-winning Katie Ledecky, Phoebe Bacon from Chevy Chase, Erin Gemmell from Potomac, and Torri Huske from Arlington.

In the U.S. national team soccer, we have three: Emily Fox from Ashburn, Virginia in the women’s team. And though they lost their first match,  we are still behind Kevin Paredes from South Riding, Virginia and Griffin Yow Clifton, Virginia playing in the men’s squad.

In Wrestling, Helen Maroulis of Rockville is flying the flag for Maryland in what is her third Olympics after becoming the first American woman to win gold in freestyle wrestling in 2016.

Speaking of breaking records, we have Sixteen-year-old Qunicy Wilson from Potomac, Maryland who is the youngest American male to join the Olympics track team where we also have the fastest man, Noah Lyles from Alexandria. 

Tatiana Nazlymov is another young talent who started fencing at nine. The Nineteen-year-old had her first Paris Olympics match yesterday, July 29 and the next is on Saturday, August 3. 

The DMV area has produced many talents and here is a full list of those currently at the Olympic Village in Paris:  

Swimming

Torri Huske (Arlington): Women’s 100m Freestyle, Women’s 100m Butterfly.

Phoebe Bacon (Chevy Chase): Women’s 200m Backstroke.

Erin Gemmell (Potomac): Women’s 200m Freestyle.

Katie Ledecky (Bethesda): Women’s 1500m Freestyle, Women’s 800m Freestyle, Women’s 400m Freestyle.

Fencing

Hadley Husisian (Oakton): Women’s Épée Individual, Women’s Épée Team.

Kat Holmes (D.C.): Women’s Team Épée.

Tatiana Nazlymov (Bethesda): Women’s Sabre Individual, Women’s Sabre Team.

Track and Field

 Quincy Wilson (Potomac): Men’s 4 x 100m Relay.

 Noah Lyles (Alexandria): Men’s 100m, Men’s 200m, Men’s 4 x 100m Relay.

 Masai Russell (Upper Marlboro, MD): Women’s 100m Hurdles.

Soccer

 Emily Fox (Ashburn): Women’s soccer.

 Kevin Paredes (South Riding): Men’s soccer.

 Griffin Yow (Clifton): Men’s soccer.

Rowing

 Claire Collins (McLean, Virginia): Women’s Eight.

 Christian Tabash (Alexandria): Men’s Eight.

Diving

 Greg Duncan (Oakton, Virginia): Synchronized 3m Springboard.

Basketball

 Kevin Durant (Prince George’s County, Maryland): Men’s basketball (5×5).

Boxing

 Jahmal Harvey (Oxon Hill, Maryland): Men’s 57kg.

Wrestling

– Helen Maroulis (Rockville): Women’s Freestyle 57kg.