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Here's how many medals athletes with Arizona ties brought home from the Olympics

It was medals galore for Arizona's Olympians in Paris! Here's how many athletes are bringing gold, silver and/or bronze back to Arizona.

PHOENIX — The 2024 Olympics are over and the Arizona athletes are bringing home some hard-earned hardware.

Here's a roundup of athletes with Arizona ties that brought home a medal from the Games. 

U.S. men's basketball- Gold

Phoenix Suns stars Kevin Durant and Devin Booker, along with Team USA, brought home the gold in men's basketball. 

Durant — the first four-time men’s gold medalist in Olympic basketball history — scored 15 points for the Americans, as did Booker. 

This was Booker's second Olympic gold medal. 

U.S. women's basketball- Gold

Phoenix Mercury stars Brittney Griner, Diana Taurasi and Kahleah Copper helped Team USA bring home the gold in a nail-biter gold medal match. 

The U.S. women's basketball team had never been challenged during its 32-year run in the Olympics like the Americans were Sunday by France. They met the moment and made history, winning an eighth consecutive Olympic gold medal.

It was the closest — and maybe sweetest win — of any during the streak.

It came down to the final seconds of the game. 

The Americans were up 67-64 with 3.8 seconds left after Copper hit two free throws. France's Marine Johannes brought the ball up the court and passed it to Williams, who caught the ball and banked in a shot over the outstretched arms of Breanna Stewart at the buzzer -- but it was just inside the 3-point line, failing to tie the game to send it into overtime. The U.S. won by one point: 67-66.

This was the sixth gold medal for Taurasi, third for Griner and first for Copper. 

U.S. women's soccer- Gold

The U.S. women's soccer team are Olympic gold champions once again after beating Brazil 1-0 in the gold medal match Saturday. 

Sydney Smith, the fiancee of Arizona Cardinals wide receiver Michael Wilson, plays for Team USA. Smith played 84 minutes before being taken off for a substitute. She did not score. 

This was Smith's first gold medal. 

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Jade Carey, Team USA Gymnastics- Gold, bronze

Arizonan Jade Carey won bronze for her first Olympic vault medal and also helped Team USA win gold in the all-around team final. 

"It feels really, really, really special," Carey said when asked how it felt to win gold. "Just to be part of the team and contribute last night and have so much fun doing what we love out there, so taking home a gold medal feels really special."

She added that it was amazing performing in front of such an energetic crowd.

Carey's medal haul from Paris adds to her gold medal in the floor exercise in the Tokyo Olympics three years ago. 

Léon Marchand- Four gold, one bronze

If there were a face to the 2024 Paris Olympics, it would be Léon Marchand's. The former ASU and current Team France swimmer earned five medals-- four gold and one bronze. 

The 22-year-old French phenomenon left no doubt he'll be remembered as one of the biggest stars of the Summer Games in his home country. He finished the 200-meter individual medley in an Olympic record of 1 minute, 54.06 seconds, just missing Ryan Lochte's 13-year-old world mark.

That was about the only thing he didn't accomplish in six magical days at La Defense Arena, previously winning the 400 IM, 200 butterfly and 200 backstroke — the latter two about two hours apart in the same session.

Marchand became only the fourth swimmer in Olympic history to win four individual golds in a single games.

The others? Michael Phelps, who did it in both 2004 and 2008; Mark Spitz in 1972; and East German Kristin Otto in 1988.

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Regan Smith- Two gold, three silver

Former ASU swimmer Regan Smith earned her first gold in the backstroke leg of the 4x100 medley relay. 

Smith took home the silver in the women's 100m backstroke, 200m backstroke and the 200m butterfly. 

Bente and Lieke Rogge - Bronze

Bente and Lieke Rogge, who both played for ASU, won the bronze medal with Team Netherlands at the Paris Olympics. 

The Netherlands beat the United States 11-10. It was the second women's water polo medal for the Netherlands after it won gold at the 2008 Olympics. It was the Bente sisters' first medal. 

Brady Ellison- One silver, one bronze

Ellison and his teammate Casey Kaufhold came away with the bronze medal in mixed-team archery after defeating India.

The 35-year-old from Globe, Arizona, first competed internationally with a compound bow but switched to a recurve bow when he discovered recurve was an Olympic discipline. This is Ellison's fourth medal (two silver, two bronze)

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Jagger Eaton- One silver

After a thrilling men's skateboarding street final, 23-year-old Jagger Eaton, from Mesa, earned the silver medal.

With his family in the stands and an energetic crowd, he landed a complex trick in the best trick portion of the event to move into the lead. However, it was short-lived as Team Japan's Yuto Horigome took the gold medal.

Eaton also helped deliver the Olympic flag at the closing ceremonies to the next host city: Los Angeles. 

RELATED: LA 2028: Arizona's Jagger Eaton delivers Olympic flag to Los Angeles

Kennedy Blades - One silver

Blades, who brought home a silver medal, attends ASU and trains there with Phoenix-based Sunkist Kids Wrestling Club.

Blades, in her first Olympics, wrestled in the finals for Team USA after winning a semifinal match versus Kyrgyzstan's Aiperi Medet Kyzy in which she was able to get a point up on her opponent in both periods of wrestling. The final score was 8-6. 

Blades took on Japan's Yuka Kagami in the final, where she won silver. 

Grant Fisher- Two bronze

Grant Fisher, who is coached by Hamilton High School cross-country coach Mike Scannell, won bronze in the men's 5,000-meter final with a time of 13:15.13. He also won bronze in the men's 10,000m final. 

He is the first American man to medal in both of those races in an Olympic Games. 

Cierra Burdick- One bronze

Former Phoenix Mercury forward Cierra Burdick and Team USA won the bronze in women's 3x3 basketball. 

The US women took on Canada in the bronze-medal game, which they won 16-13. Burdick scored three points and grabbed three rebounds as the Americans rebounded from an 0-3 start to claim the bronze medal.  

Athletes with Arizona ties at the Games earned at least 22 medals. Team USA won 126 medals in all, the most of any other country.

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