Kansas Olympians

The 2016 Summer Olympics will be held in Rio de Janeiro, and this year, several Kansas natives and residents will compete, representing 10 countries. Some of these athletes are from none other than Wichita! Here’s a list of Kansans competing in this year’s games.

Nico Hernandez
Nico Hernandez, 20, is a boxer from Wichita. He will represent team USA in the light flyweight division in Rio.

Miles Ukaoma
Miles Ukaoma of Wichita will represent Nigeria in the 400 meter hurdles. Ukaoma has previously won two state championships for Maize High School.

Florian Skilang Temengil
Freestyle wrestler Florian Skilang Temengil, 29, returns to the Olympics for the second time this year after competing in Beijing 2008. Temengil, who has wrestled for Newman University, represents Palau and will compete in the heavyweight division.

Tyson Gay
After a fifth-place finish in the trials, 33-year-old Gay will represent the United States as a member of the 400 meter relay team. The track and field athlete has also competed for Barton Community college.

Veronica Campbell Brown
Veronica Campbell Brown will compete in her fifth Olympic games this year, representing Jamaica in the 200 meter. Brown, who has competed for Barton Community College, has won two gold medals in the event and a total of seven Olympic medals in her career.

Antanas Kavaliauskas
Also a former Barton Community College athlete, 31-year-old Kavaliauskas is a professional basketball player in Lithuania. He will represent the country in this year’s Olympics.

Erik Kynard
Erik Kynard was awarded the Olympic gold medal in the high jump in the 2012 summer games in London. Kynard has previously been a member of the Kansas State University track and field team.

Balazs Baji
Representing Hungary in the 2016 games, Baji competes in the 110 hurdles at the Olympics for the second time this year. Baji has also competed for K-State.

Akela Jones
Jones will compete in two events in Rio, representing Barbados in both high jump and the heptathalon. She won NCAA titles for both of these events while competing at Kansas State University.

Jeffrey Julmis
The Fort Lauderdale, Florida native has competed on the track and field team at Kansas State University, and will represent Haiti in the 110 hurdles in 2016. This is his second time competing in the Olympics.  

Shadae Lawrence
Lawrence, a track and field athlete who has competed for Kansas State University, will represent Jamaica at Rio in the discus throw at this year’s summer games.

Beverly Ramos
Ramos will represent Puerto Rico at the games, competing in the marathon. This is Ramos’s second Olympic competition, having competed in the 3,000 meter steeplechase in 2012.

Alyx Treasure
Competing for Canada, Treasure is a high jumper, and she met the qualifying standard at K-State.

Andre De Grasse
De Grasse will compete in three events in Rio, representing Canada in the 100 meter, 200 meter, and the 400 relay. He attended Coffeyville Community College in 2013 and 2014 where he won five NJCAA titles.

Kyle Clemmons
Kyle Clemons competed for the University of Kansas from 2009 to 2013. He will compete in the 1600 meter relay.

Mason Finley
A former discus and shot put competitor for KU, Finley will compete in the after placing first in discus at the Olympic trials.

Andrea Geubelle
Geubelle competed in both the triple jump and long jump at the University of Kansas. She finished third in the Olympic trials for triple jump, qualifying to compete in Rio.

Daina Levy
Daina Levy is a former KU athlete. The hammer thrower will represent Jamaica in the games.

Liana Salazar
Salazar was a member of the KU soccer team, and will compete for Columbia in Rio.  

Zainab Sanni
Sanni, who will be a senior at the University of Kansas this fall, will compete for Nigeria in the 400 meter relay team.

Ingrid Vidal
Vidal is a former KU soccer player. She competes for Columbia alongside Salazar.

Lydia Paterson
Paterson, of Kansas City, Kansas, will compete in the 10-meter air pistol competition in the 2016 summer games.

Jack Sock
Ranked one of the top 25 men’s tennis players in the world, Jack Sock of Kansas City, Kansas will also compete in Rio.

Amy Cragg
Amy Cragg of Leavenworth, Kansas returns to the Olympics this year after running the 10,000 meter in 2012. She’ll compete in the women’s marathon in Rio.

Antwon Hicks
Antwon Hicks, assistant coach for Kansas’s Neosho County Community College’s track team, will represent Nigeria in the110 meter hurdles in the Rio de Janeiro games.