The list of Pennsylvania State University Olympians is a list of former or current Penn State University students (154) and coaches and faculty members (13) (through 2026) 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 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris with 36 participants earning fourteen medals, the most ever by Penn State athletes in a single Olympic Games.
Totals are through the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic Games.
<sup>â </sup> 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 athletes who were alternates<br /> <sup>â¦</sup> number of times that a person received an Olympic medal or honor for finishing among the top three in an event<br /> <sup>â¡</sup> both on the 2020 gold medal-winning USA women's team<br /> <sup>#</sup> both on the 2012 silver medal-winning USA women's team<br /> <sup>ö</sup> all on the 2016 bronze medal-winning USA men's and women's teams<br /> <sup>ç</sup> all on the 1984 bronze medal-winning USA women's team
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.
/ Long Island (USA)/Stoke Mandeville (UK)