diff --git a/CHANGES/9596.bugfix b/CHANGES/9596.bugfix
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..7dd083737c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/CHANGES/9596.bugfix
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+Fixed bug where Artifacts were being downloaded even if they were already saved in Pulp.
+(backported from #9542)
diff --git a/pulpcore/plugin/sync.py b/pulpcore/plugin/sync.py
index 2ce305218c..0ce18645e8 100644
--- a/pulpcore/plugin/sync.py
+++ b/pulpcore/plugin/sync.py
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 from asgiref.sync import sync_to_async
 
 
+# This is useful for querysets which don't have async support yet. Django querysets issue a db call
+# when the iterator for them is requested, so we need that to be wrapped in `sync_to_async` also.
 iter_async = sync_to_async(iter)
 
 
@@ -12,21 +14,24 @@ def next_async(it):
         raise StopAsyncIteration
 
 
-async def sync_to_async_iterable(sync_iterable):
+def sync_to_async_iterable(sync_iterable):
     """
-    Utility method which runs each iteration of a synchronous iterable in a threadpool. It also
-    sets a threadlocal inside the thread so calls to AsyncToSync can escape it. The implementation
-    relies on `asgiref.sync.sync_to_async`.  thread_sensitive parameter for sync_to_async defaults
-    to True. This code will run in the same thread as any outer code. This is needed for
-    underlying Python code that is not threadsafe (for example, code which handles database
-    connections).
+    Creates an async iterable.
+
+    The returned iterator is able to be reused and iterated through multiple times.
 
     Args:
-        sync_iterable (iter): A synchronous iterable such as a QuerySet.
+        sync_iterable: An iterable to be asynchronously iterated through.
     """
-    sync_iterator = await iter_async(sync_iterable)
-    while True:
-        try:
-            yield await next_async(sync_iterator)
-        except StopAsyncIteration:
-            return
+
+    class _Wrapper:
+        def __aiter__(self):
+            self.sync_iterator = None
+            return self
+
+        async def __anext__(self):
+            if self.sync_iterator is None:
+                self.sync_iterator = await iter_async(sync_iterable)
+            return await next_async(self.sync_iterator)
+
+    return _Wrapper()