Paris 2024 golf: All results, as New Zealand’s Lydia Ko clinches women’s gold to become most decorated golfer in Olympic history

New Zealand’s Lydia Ko dominated the women’s golf competition at the Olympic Games Paris 2024 to take the gold medal and become the most decorated golfer, male or female, in the history of the Olympic Games.

Adding to her bronze from Tokyo 2020 and silver from Rio 2016, Ko got the job done to complete the full set on 10 August.

When asked about what it means to her to have the complete collection, she comically responded: “Somebody told me this morning, 'get the whole collection of the steak knives'. So that's one way of putting it.”

The victory came after four days and 72 holes at Le Golf National, where the Kiwi finished 10 under par and two strokes ahead of German silver medallist Esther Henseleit.

"I had the most unbelievable experience in my three times playing the Olympics,” she said after taking the gold.

“To be able to represent New Zealand, wear the fern on my hat and my clothes, it's just been such a special week - and three weeks of my life. To be holding gold right now, it's crazy. I can't believe it."

The gold medal, that is already a momentous achievement in itself, became a small piece of a bigger puzzle in Paris, as it was the last point of the 27 that she needed to be inducted into the LPGA Hall of Fame.

With that, she becomes the first Kiwi to ever be inducted and the youngest person to receive this honour under the most recent criteria, at just 27 years old.

Going into the final back nine, Ko had a cushiony four-shot lead, but superstitions began to run wild as it was chillingly similar to the lead that Spain’s Jon Rahm held with seven holes to go, before it was blown on the 16th to deny him a spot on the podium.

Playing several groups ahead of Ko, Henseleit birdied her final two holes to creep within one shot of the Kiwi, but in the incredible fashion that she works, Ko overcame a double bogey on the 15th to maintain her lead and come out on top, two strokes ahead of the German.

"With golf you never know what's going to happen. So I feel like I stayed really patient and never gave up. Even when I had a big lead, I didn't get too ahead of myself and just focused on the now, and that really helped me to come down the last with a... lead,” Ko said.

Henseleit was thrilled with the silver, saying “I knew I had to do something special today to get a medal, and I did it. It's amazing to be standing here with that thing in my hand."

People's Republic of China’s Lin Xiyu Janet took the bronze, carding a seven under and landing on the podium after missing out on the hardware in Rio and Tokyo.

“I feel great. I didn’t have a good start to the day,” she said, but “I feel like I had been playing very consistent this week and consistency was going to be a weapon. From 13 or 14, I decided I was not going to look at the scoreboard any more.”

"I just wanted to get two or three birdies to finish up the day, and I did it. I actually didn’t know [I medalled] until after I made the birdie on the last hole.”

So, with Ko, Henseleit and Lin on the podium, history was made for each of their nations, as Henseleit clinched Germany’s first ever Olympic medal in golf, Lin became China’s second ever medallist, and Ko won New Zealand’s first ever gold... on top of everything else she was named with the win."

Golf: Women's individual stroke play podium

Gold: Lydia Ko, New Zealand, -10

Silver: Esther Henseleit, Germany, -8

Bronze: Lin Xiyu Janet, People's Republic of China, -7

Find full results on Olympics.com.