How many Olympic medals does Carli Lloyd have?

Since women’s soccer was first played at the Summer Olympics in 1996, the US women’s national team have been on the podium at six out of seven Games - and Carli Lloyd played a key role in half of those medal wins.

Lloyd a double Olympic soccer champion

A USWNT legend who scored 134 goals in 316 caps, Lloyd starred for the Americans in two Olympic title wins, in 2008 and 2012. She also helped the team to the bronze medal in Tokyo three years ago.

The former midfielder and forward, who retired from playing in 2021, netted 10 times across four Olympics - and was the USWNT’s match winner in both the 2008 and 2012 finals. She scored her side’s goal in a 1-0 victory over Brazil in the gold-medal match in Beijing, before hitting two in just over two minutes in a 2-1 victory over Japan in London four years later.

Lloyd is the only player in either the men’s or women’s Olympic soccer tournaments to score all their team’s goals in two final triumphs.

Who has the record for Olympic soccer medals?

Her haul of three Olympic soccer medals is one behind the record for the women’s competition, which belongs to her former USWNT team-mate Christie Pearce. The former defender won four medals - including three golds - between 2000 and 2012.

Lloyd is also a two-time Women’s World Cup winner. In 2015, indeed, she became the first female player to score a World Cup final hat-trick, as the USWNT thrashed Japan 5-2 in the trophy decider in Canada. In 2019, she was a late substitute in a 2-0 final victory over the Netherlands, having scored three goals during the group stage in France.

Lloyd lauds Swanson after USWNT begin with win

Now a prominent soccer pundit, Lloyd heaped praise on Mallory Swanson earlier this week, after the USWNT forward scored a record-breaking double in an opening win for the Stars and Stripes at the 2024 Games.

Swanson, 26, scored twice in the space of 66 seconds on Thursday, as the USWNT began their pursuit of a record-extending fifth Olympic title with a 3-0 group-stage win over Zambia. Per Opta Jack, that was the quickest brace in USWNT history at major tournaments - breaking the record Lloyd had set in the 2012 final.

Swanson “still has a lot more in her ceiling”, Lloyd posted on X, adding: “Proud of her!” Trinity Rodman scored the USWNT’s other goal against the Zambians.

Can USWNT reclaim Olympic crown in Paris?

In their first major tournament under new head coach Emma Hayes, the USWNT may be out to further cement their status as the most decorated team in the women’s Olympic competition - but they’re also bidding to end a 12-year drought without winning gold.

Five years before being restricted to bronze in Japan in 2021, the USWNT suffered their earliest ever elimination at the Olympics, losing a penalty shootout to Sweden in the Rio 2016 quarter-finals.

Prior to their 2008 and 2012 title wins, the Americans’ other victories at the Games came in 1996 and 2004. They also took silver in 2000.