FAYETTEVILLE - The Arkansas track and field program will see 18 of its athletes compete in the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janiero next month.
Sixteen of the athletes are former Razorbacks. The two current are Lexi Weeks, from Cabot, in the pole vault and Clive Pullen in the triple jump. Two former Olympic medal winners, Tyson Gay (whose medal was later stripped) and Veronica Campbell-Brown, will also compete in their third and fifth Olympics, respectively.
Seven Arkansas-connected athletes are from the United States. Jamaica has the second most with four Razorbacks. All of the qualifiers are track and field participants except for three: David Lingmerth, Stacy Lewis and Gabriela Lopez in golf.