Meet the Bay Area athletes competing at the 2024 Paris Olympics

As the 2024 Olympic Games get under way in Paris on Friday, San Francisco and Bay Area residents will have plenty of representation.

Among the 600 athletes representing the United States this summer are four from The City and dozens more with ties to the broader region. Here’s a look at the San Francisco athletes competing for Team USA:

Kristen Faulkner — cycling

The reigning USA National Road Race champion, Faulkner will make her Olympic debut in the City of Lights. She won the women’s road time trial at the 2023 Pan American Games and finished second at the United States National Road Race Championship’s time trial.

Alex Massialas — fencing

Massialas will be competing in his fourth Olympics . He’s already won one silver and two bronze medals in previous games. A graduate of Stanford University, he’s a four-time NCAA All-American and two-time NCAA Champion.

Gerek Meinhardt — fencing

Meinhardt has even more Olympic experience than Massialas; this will be his fifth games, dating back to the 2008 Summer Games in Beijing, where, at 17, he was the youngest male athlete to ever compete for the U.S. Olympic team. He won bronze medals at the 2016 and 2020 events.

Hans Henken — sailing

A graduate of both Stanford’s undergraduate and graduate programs, Henken was a member of the university’s Varsity Sailing Team throughout his collegiate career. He was named team captain for the 2013-2014 campaign, the Cardinal’s most successful season. In 2018, he won the bronze medal at the Youth World Championships in 2018 and became a Under-23 International Moth World Champion the following year.

Other Bay Area athletes by sport

Artistic Swimming

Megumi Field — Stanford University Jacklynn Luu — Milpitas

Badminton

Vinson Chiu — Milpitas Jennie Gai — Fremont Annie Xu — San Jose Kerry Xu — San Jose Joshua Yuan — Foster City

Basketball

Chelsea Gray — Hayward Sabrina Ionescu — Walnut Creek

Diving

Kassidy Cook — Stanford University

Field Hockey

Kelsey Bing — Stanford University

Golfing

Collin Morikawa — UC Berkeley

Rowing

Azja Czajkowski — Stanford University Emily Delleman — Stanford University Peter Chatain — Stanford University

Rugby

Naima Fuala’au — Hayward

Sailing

David Liebenberg — Richmond Daniela Moroz — Berkeley

Skateboarding

Minna Stess — Petaluma

Soccer

Tierna Davidson — Menlo Park Naomi Girma — San Jose

Swimming

Katie Ledecky — Stanford University Simone Manuel — Stanford University Ryan Murphy — UC Berkeley

Table tennis

Kanak Jha — Milpitas Nikhil Kumar — San Jose Rachel Sung — Mountain View Lily Zhang — Palo Alto Xin Zhou — Milpitas

Track and Field

Valarie Allman — Stanford University Elise Cranny — Stanford University Fiona O’Keeffe — Stanford University Malcolm Clemons — Oakland Harrison Williams — Stanford University

Volleyball

Erik Shoji — Stanford University

Women’s water polo

Jenna Flynn — Stanford University Jordan Raney — Stanford University Jewel Roemer — Stanford University Maggie Steffens — Stanford University

Men’s water polo

Alex Bowen — Stanford University Ben Hallock — Stanford University Drew Holland — Stanford University Johnny Hooper — UC Berkeley Dylan Woodhead — Stanford University

Wrestling

Amit Elor — Walnut Creek