Hometown Heroes: U.S. Cities With the Most Olympians

Seattle native Jill Kintner won a bronze medal in women’s BMX (photo courtesy Harry How/Getty Images)

Olympics fever is still going strong here at Zillow, even as the Beijing Games wrap up. Last week, I wrote about how California has the most Olympians of any state. A commentor in that post asked which U.S. city has the top number of Olympic athletes. Well, according to this list of Olympians’ hometowns (click on links on right), here are the cities with the most bragging rights. Drum roll, please …

It’s a three way-tie for first place! These cities each have 7 athletes representing them at the Games:

Seattle, Washington (Let’s hear it for Zillow’s hometown!)
Atlanta, Georgia
San Diego, California

Following closely behind in second place, each with 6 athletes:

Cincinnati, Ohio
Irvine, California

And, finally, in third place, with 5 athletes are:

Honolulu, Hawaii
San Francisco, California