List of Pennsylvania State University Olympians

The list of Pennsylvania State University Olympians is a list of former or current Penn State University students (129) and coaches and faculty members (12) who have appeared as athletes at the Olympic Games, plus one athlete for the boycotted 1980 Summer Olympics. The university had its most representatives participating in the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro with 22 participants earning eight medals, the most ever by Penn State athletes in a single Olympic Games.

Appearances and medal winners by sport
Totals are through the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games.

† an athlete is considered to have appeared once in each sport entered each time the Games of an Olympiad or Winter Games were held, including attendance in the host city as alternates

♦ number of times that a person received an Olympic medal or honor for finishing among the top three in an event

‡ both on the 2020 gold medal-winning USA women's team


 * 1) both on the 2012 silver medal-winning USA women's team

¶ all on the 2016 bronze medal-winning USA men's and women's teams

§ all on the 1984 bronze medal-winning USA women's team

1904
🇺🇸 St. Louis

1908
🇬🇧 London

1920
🇧🇪 Antwerp

1924
🇫🇷 Paris

1928
Amsterdam

1932
🇺🇸 Los Angeles



1948
🇬🇧 London

1952
🇫🇮 Helsinki

1952 Winter Olympic Games

🇳🇴 Oslo

1956
🇦🇺 Melbourne

1956 Winter Olympic Games

🇮🇹 Cortina d'Ampezzo

1960
🇮🇹 Rome

1964
🇯🇵 Tokyo

1968
🇲🇽 Mexico City

1972
🇩🇪 Munich

1976
🇨🇦 Montreal

1980
Moscow

Jana Angelakis, Greg Fredericks, Charlene Morett, Christine Larson-Mason, Knut Hjeltnes (Norway) and Romel Raffin (Canada) were all named to their respective Olympic teams but did not participate due to the 1980 Summer Olympics boycott.

1984
🇺🇸 Los Angeles

1988
🇰🇷 Seoul

1992
🇪🇸 Barcelona

1996
🇺🇸 Atlanta

2000
🇦🇺 Sydney

2002
🇺🇸 Salt Lake City

2004
Athens

2006
🇮🇹 Torino

2008
🇨🇳 Beijing

2010
🇨🇦 Vancouver

2012
🇬🇧 London

2016
🇧🇷 Rio de Janeiro

2020
🇯🇵 Tokyo

2022
🇨🇳 Beijing

2004
Athens

2008
🇨🇳 Beijing

2016
🇧🇷 Rio de Janeiro

2020
🇯🇵 Tokyo