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Hokies In The Olympics

2016 - Summer - Games of the XXXI Olympiad
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - August 5 - August 21

Kristi Castlin ¹ (USA) - 100m Hurdles
Bronze Medal
Qualifying Round: 12.68 (1^st in Heat 1, auto-qualifier for semifinals)
Semifinal Round: 12.63 (1^st in Semifinal group 3, auto-qualifier for finals)
Finals: 12.61 (3^rd Place)

Carmen Farmer ¹ (USA) - Rugby Sevens
Competed in softball at Virginia Tech
Fifth Place

Pool Play - Pool A
USA 7 - Fiji 12
USA 48 - Columbia 0
USA 12 - Australia 12

Bracket Play
USA 0 - New Zealand 5
USA 12 - Fiji 7
USA 19 - France 5

Marcel Lomnicky ¹ (Slovakia) - Hammer Throw
Qualifying: 74.16 meters (243 feet, 4 inches) (2^nd in Group A, 10^th overall)
Finals: 75.97 meters (249 feet, 3 inches) (5^th overall)

Darrell Wesh ¹ (Haiti) - 100 meter
Round 1: 10.39 (8^th in Heat 3, t-54^th overall, did not advance)

Cleopatra Borel ⁴ (Trinidad & Tobago) - Shot Put
Qualification: 18.20 (4^th in Group A, 8^th overall)
Finals: 18.37 (7^th overall)

Norbert Szabo ^VT (Hungary) - 4x200 Freestyle Relay
Qualified for the Olympics and traveled to the games but did not compete

2012 - Summer - Games of the XXX Olympiad
London, England - July 27 - August 12

Marcel Lomnicky ¹ (Slovakia) - Hammer Throw
Qualifying Round: 74.00 (5^th in Group B, 15^th overall, did not advance)

Katarina Filova ^VT (Slovakia) - Swimming
100m Freestyle
Heats: 56.58 (6^th in Heat 4, 31^st overall, did not advance)

200m Freestyle
Heats: 2:02.03 (5^th in Heat 2, 28^th overall, did not advance)

Cleopatra Borel ⁴ (Trinidad & Tobago) - Shot Put
Qualification: 18.36 (13^th overall, did not advance)

2008 - Summer - Games of the XXIX Olympiad
Beijing, China - August 8 - August 24

Queen Harrison ^VT (USA) - 400m-Hurdles
Heats: 55.96 (13^th overall, advances to semifinals)
Semifinals: 55.88 (did not advance)

Kaan Tayla ¹ (Turkey) - 50m Freestyle
Heats: 22.66 (37^th overall, did not advance)

Nare Diawara ¹ (Mali) - Women's Basketball
Member of the Mali Team, but will not be able to compete due to injury.

Ieva Kublina ¹ (Latvia) - Women's Basketball
Games Played
Russia: 62 - Latvia: 57
Belarus: 79 - Latvia: 57
Latvia: 79 - Brazil: 78
Australia: 96 - Latvia: 73
South Korea: 72 - Latvia: 68
Latvia Eliminated

Stats

		FG		3PT		FT		REBOUNDS
GS/GP	MIN	M/A	FG %	M/A	%	M/A	%	OR	DR	TOT	AS	PF	ST	TO	BS	PTS
3/5	114:05	17/41	0.415	7/14	0.500	6/8	0.750	10	15	25	1	8	3	10	1	47

Cleopatra Borel-Brown ² (Trinidad & Tobago) - Shot Put
Qualification: 17.96 (17^th overall, did not advance)

2004 - Summer - Games of the XXVIII Olympiad
Athens, Greece - August 13 - August 29

Cleopatra Borel-Brown ² (Trinidad & Tobago) - Shot Put
Qualifing Round (Group B) - 18.90
Finals - 18.35 (10^th Place)

Kaan Tayla ³ (Turkey) - Swimming
50m Freestyle - Heat - 23.26s (39^th overall, did not advance)
100m Freestyle - Heat - 51.52s (42^nd overall, did not advance)

1988 - Summer - Games of the XXIV Olympiad
Seoul, South Korea - September 17 - October 2

Bimbo Coles ^VT (USA) - Men's Basketball
Bronze Medal
Games Played
USA: 97 - Spain: 53
USA: 76 - Canada: 70
USA: 102 - Brazil: 87
USA: 108 - China: 57
USA: 102 - Egypt: 35
USA: 94 - Puerto Rico: 57
USSR: 82 - USA: 76
USA: 78 - Australia: 49

Stats

G	FGM-FGA	PCT	3PM-3PA	PCT	FTM-FTA	PCT	REB/AVG	PTS/AVG	AT	BK	ST
8	23- 44	.523	0- 0	.000	11- 13	.846	14/ 1.8	57/ 7.1	7	0	11

1980 - Summer - Games of the XXII Olympiad
Moscow - July 19 - August 3

Todd Scully ² (USA) - Men's 20K Racewalk
Member of the US Team that boycotted the Games to protest the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.

1976 - Summer - Games of the XXI Olympiad
Montreal - July 17 - August 1

Todd Scully ² (USA) - Men's 20K Racewalk
Finals - 1:36:37 (29^th Place)

^VT - Current student-athlete during the olympics
¹ - Former student-athlete during the olympics
² - Current Virginia Tech Athletics employee during the olympics
³ - Prior to becoming a student-athlete at Virginia Tech ⁴ - Former Virginia Tech Athletics employee during the olympics