PARIS (Michigan News Source) – Paul Juda, Fred Richard, and Siobhan Haughey all earned Bronze Medals at the 2024 Paris Olympic games for the University of Michigan. Juda and Richard were a part of the men’s gymnastics team and Haughey was one of the best in the 200-meter freestyle for swimming.
Juda and Richard guided the USA to their first medal in 16 years in men’s gymnastics competing in four events. Juda participated on the floor exercise (14.200), pommel horse (13.900), vault (14.666), and horizontal bar (13.366). Richard then scored on the floor (14.466), still rings (14.033), horizontal bar (14.833), and parallel bars (14.566).
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The USA head a 0.666 lead heading into the final rotation and came way with the Bronze with 257.793 points behind Gold Medalist Japan (259.594) and Silver Medalist China (259.062). The men’s team finished fifth in 2012, 2016, and 2020 and last won a Bronze Medal in 2008.
Juda says about winning the Bronze Medal, “The crowd chaning ‘U-S-A!’ is invigorating and you can’t ask for a better feeling. That gives you goose bumps. That tells you you’re doing the right things and after each routine when everybody’s gone, you have an idea it might happen but we really knew after the last set.”
The two will finish their Olympic competitions on Wednesday at 11:30 a.m. in the all-around finals as Richard begins on the pommel horse and Juda on the still rings.
Haughey is a three-time Olympian who swam for Michigan from 2015-2020 and is representing Hong Kong. She earned a Bronze Medal in the 200-meter freestyle at the Paris La Defense Arena. She finished with a time of 1:54.55 just behind Gold Medalist Mollie O’Callaghan (Australia) and Silver Medalist Ariarne Titmus (Australia). This is her first bronze of her career after two Silver Medals in Tokyo in the 100-meter and 200-meter freestyle. In her career at Michigan, she had 15 Big Ten Championships and earned 14 All-American accolades.
She will compete one more time in the 2024 Olympics in the 100-meter freestyle on Tuesday and Wednesday.
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