(Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)  --  Seventeen current and former athletes from the University of Oregon competed at the Rio Olympics, bringing home four gold medals and two bronze.  The gold medals were awarded to Ashton Eaton in the decathlon, Matthew Centrowitz in the 15-hundred meters, English Gardner in the four-by-100-meter relay, and Phyllis Francis in the four-by-400-meter relay.  The bronze medals were won by Galen Rupp in the marathon and Brianne Theisen-Eaton in the heptathlon.