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US Olympic medal count: Athletes that have earned hardware in Paris

Among the highlights of the many countries competing at the 2024 Paris Olympics is to see how many medals each nation can rack up, showing off its dominance to the rest of the world.

While the United States is favored to take home the most medals at the Paris Olympics, China is in the mix to have the most athletes on the top podium.

During the 2021 pandemic-delayed Tokyo Olympics, Team USA won 113 medals, including 39 golds, while China won 89 medals and 38 golds.

The last Summer Olympics in which the United States didn’t have the most gold medals was the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, when the host nation won 48 golds to the USA’s 36.

Here are the daily counts of medals won by Team USA at the 2024 Paris Olympics.

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Team USA medal count at 2024 Paris Olympics

The United States has earned 30 medals — five gold, 13 silver and 12 bronze. America leads the overall medal count (30), followed by the host country France (26), China (19) and Great Britain (17).

Team USA gold medalists

Team USA’s first gold medal of the Paris Games came Saturday in the men’s 4×100-meter relay. The team of Jack Alexy, Chris Guiliano, Hunter Armstrong and Caeleb Dressel posted a blistering 3:09.28 time to win gold.

Here are the rest of the Americans who finished atop of the podium so far:

July 28: American fencer Lee Kiefer won her second straight Olympic gold medal in individual foil by defeating teammate Lauren Scruggs 15-6 in an all-American final. Kiefer becomes only the second U.S. fencer to win two Olympic gold medals in individual competition.
July 28: American swimmer Torri Huske won gold in the women’s 100 butterfly in 55.59 seconds.
July 30: Simone Biles led the U.S. women’s gymnastics team to an Olympic gold medal in the team final. The U.S. team, made up of Biles, Jade Carey, Sunisa Lee and Jordan Chiles, finished nearly six points ahead of the silver medal winners Italy, with Brazil grabbing bronze.
July 31: Katie Ledecky won gold in the women’s 1,500-meter freestyle in dominant fashion, setting an Olympic record of 15:30.02. It marked her first gold medal of the Paris Games to go along with a bronze she won Saturday in the 400 freestyle. Ledecky now has won 12 medals in four Olympic Games.

Team USA silver medalists

Here’s the rest of the U.S. silver medalists:

July 27:The U.S.women’s 4×100-meter relay team, made up of Kate Douglass, Gretchen Walsh, Torri Huske and Simone Manuel, secured silver behind Australia.
July 28:Haley Batten won silver for Team USA, finishing second in the women’s mountain biking competition.
July 28:American swimmer Gretchen Walsh won the silver in the women’s 100 butterfly in 55.63 seconds, trailing American teammate Torri Huske.
July 28:American breaststroker Nic Fink finally won himself an Olympic medal, tying world record holder Adam Peaty of Great Britain for silver in the men’s 100-meter breaststroke final.
July 28: American fencer Lauren Scruggs won a silver medal in the women’s individual foil competition behind teammate Lee Kiefer in an All-American final.
July 29: American Jagger Eaton won a silver medal in men’s street skateboarding behind Japan’s Yuto Horigome.
July 29:Katie Grimes won silver in the women’s 400-meter individual medley, with Canada’s Summer McIntosh finishing in first.
July 30: American swimmer Regan Smith raced to a silver medal in the women’s 100-meter backstroke. Smith was out-touched by Australian Kaylee McKeown, who won gold.
July 30: U.S. distance swimmer Bobby Finke, the American record holder in the men’s 800-meter freestyle, finished second in the event to win silver.
July 30: The U.S. men’s 4×200-meter relay team, made up of swimmers Luke Hobson, Carson Foster, Drew Kibler and Kieran Smith, raced to silver in the event final.
July 31:American Perris Benegas won the silver medal in women’s BMX freestyle with two clean runs. Benegas’ second, which carried over her emphasis on soaring through the air to impress the judges, ended with a score of 90.70.
July 31:American swimmer Torri Huske pulled off an absolute stunner to win silver in the women’s 100-meter freestyle final. This is the second individual medal of the Paris Games for Huske following her first Olympic gold in Sunday’s women’s 100-meter butterfly final. Huske also won silver as part of the women’s 4×100 freestyle relay on Saturday.

Team USA bronze medalists

Katie Ledecky, the greatest female swimmer in history, added to her remarkable résumé with a bronze medal in the much-anticipated women’s 400-meter freestyle race on the first day of the Paris Games.

Here’s all the rest of the U.S. bronze medalists:

July 27:Cyclist Chloe Dygert earned bronze in the women’s road cycling individual time trial.
July 28: Swimmer Carson Foster took bronze in the men’s 400 individual medley.
July 29: American Nyjah Huston won a bronze medal in men’s street skateboarding behind Japan’s Yuto Horigome and U.S. teammate Jagger Eaton.
July 29: Swimmer Luke Hobson won bronze for his first Olympic medal in the men’s 200-meter freestyle.
July 29: Ryan Murphy extended his Olympic medal streak with bronze in the men’s 100-meter backstroke.
July 29: Swimmer Emma Weyant won bronze in the women’s 400-meter individual medley, just behind fellow American Katie Grimes.
July 29: American fencer Nick Itkin won the bronze medal in the men’s individual foil with a victory over Japan’s Kazumi Iimura.
July 29: Team USA men’s gymnastics won bronze in the team competition. The team of Frederick Richard, Brody Malone, Stephen Nedoroscik, Paul Juda and Asher Hong gave the U.S. its first men’s team gymnastic Olympic medal since 2008.
July 30: American swimmer Katharine Berkoff won a bronze medal in the women’s 100-meter backstroke, finishing behind Australian Kaylee McKeown and teammate Regan Smith.
July 30: The U.S. women’s rugby sevens team made history on Tuesday in a 14-12 comeback victory over Australia to win bronze, their first ever Olympic medal. 
July 31: Evy Leibfarth won Team USA’s first canoe slalom medal in 20 years, capturing the bronze in the women’s canoe slalom with a score of 109.95.

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