Team USA concluded the 2024 Paris Olympics with a record-setting 126 podium finishes, tying with China at 40 gold medals. Amid games mired in controversy and conflict, the US fought fiercely to secure its place at the top of the podium, marking the country’s 61st consecutive Olympics victory.
Here’s a look back at the American Olympians who took home the gold this year (summary provided by USA Today):
July 27: Team USA secured its first gold medal of the Games in the men’s 4×100-meter relay, with Jack Alexy, Chris Guiliano, Hunter Armstrong, and Caeleb Dressel finishing in 3:09.28.
July 28: Fencer Lee Kiefer won her second Olympic gold medal after defeating teammate Lauren Scruggs 15-6 in an all-American final. Kiefer is only the second American fencer to win two gold medals in an individual competition.
July 28: Swimmer Torri Huske won gold in the women’s 100 butterfly with a time of 55.59 seconds.
July 30: Simone Biles, Jade Carey, Sunisa Lee, and Jordan Chiles led the women’s gymnastics team to a gold medal in the team final, finishing six points ahead of Italy (silver) and Brazil (bronze).
July 31: Katie Ledecky set an Olympic record in the women’s 1,500-meter freestyle with a time of 15:30.02. Ledecky has won 12 medals in four Olympic Games.
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Aug. 1: Michael Grady, Nick Mead, Justin Best, and Liam Corrigan won the men’s four rowing finals with a time of 5:49.03, beating New Zealand (silver) by less than a second (5:49.88). Great Britain finished just behind in third place. Team USA has not won the Olympic men’s four rowing event in 64 years.
Aug. 1: Simone Biles, 27, became the oldest Olympic champion since 1952 when she beat out Brazil’s Rebeca Andrade in the all-around gymnastics final.
Aug. 1: Fencers Lee Kiefer and Lauren Scruggs, who competed against one another and won individual gold and silver respectively earlier in the week, – beat Italy 45-39 for Team USA’s first gold medal in the women’s team foil event.
Aug. 1: Swimmer Kate Douglass won the women’s 200-meter breaststroke with a time of 2:19. 24, setting a new American record.
Aug. 3: Vincent Hancock took gold in men’s individual skeet shooting, making him the seventh Olympian in history to earn four gold medals in an individual event and just the fifth American to do so (joining Katie Ledecky, Michael Phelps, Carl Lewis, and Al Oerter).
Aug. 3: Simone Biles won a second Olympic title on vault, earning her 10th Olympic medal and seventh gold.
Aug. 3: Shot putter Ryan Crouser won his third consecutive Olympic gold medal with a throw of 75 feet, 1¾ inches. Crouser is the only shot-put thrower to win three Olympic gold medals in the event.
Aug. 3: Katie Ledecky won her fourth consecutive Olympic gold medal in the 800-meter freestyle, the 14th in her Olympic career. Ledecky is one of seven Olympians with gold medals in the same event in four different Games, and among five Americans to do so (joining Vincent Hancock, Michael Phelps, Carl Lewis, and Al Oerter).
Aug. 3: Swimmers Ryan Murphy (backstroke), Nic Fink (breaststroke), Gretchen Walsh (butterfly), and Torri Huske (freestyle) set a new world record in the mixed 4×100-meter medley, beating Chian by 0.04 seconds.
Aug. 4: Bobby Finke defended his Olympic title in the men’s 1,500-meter freestyle final, breaking the world record.
Aug 4: The team of Regan Smith (backstroke), Lilly King (breaststroke), Gretchen Walsh (butterfly), and Torri Huske (freestyle) broke the world record in the women’s 4×100-meter medley to win gold in the final swimming event.
Aug. 4: Kristen Faulkner won gold in the women’s road race for Team USA’s first medal in the event in 40 years.
Aug. 4: Scottie Scheffler tied a course record by firing a 9-under-par 62 at Le Golf National in the final round of men’s golf to take gold.
Aug. 4: Noah Lyles became the new fastest man in the world after winning the men’s 100-meter final in a photo finish.
Aug. 5: Valarie Allman won the discus throw with a distance of 69.50.
Aug. 5: Caroline Marks won women’s shortboard surfing in Teahupo’o, Tahiti.
Aug. 6: Cole Hocker took the gold medal in the men’s 1,500-meter race, and he also broke the Olympic record with a time of 3:27.65.
Aug. 6: Gabby Thomas won the women’s 200-meter final with a time of 21.83.
Aug. 6: Amit Elor won the gold medal in the women’s wrestling 68-kilogram weight class, becoming the youngest American wrestler to win Olympic gold.
Aug. 7: Lily Williams, Jennifer Valente, Kristen Faulkner and Chloe Dygert won Team USA’s first-ever gold medal in Women’s Team Pursuit.
Aug. 7: Quincy Hall won gold in the men’s 400-meter dash with a personal best time of 43.40.
Aug. 7: Sarah Hildebrandt defeated Cuba’s Yusneylys Guzmán in the 50-kilogram wrestling final.
Aug. 8: Tara Davis-Woodhall won gold in the long jump by leaping 7.1 meters (more than 23 feet).
Aug. 8: Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone won her second consecutive Olympic gold medal in the 400-meter hurdles with a world record time of 50.37. It was the sixth time she beat her own world record.
Aug. 8: Hurdler Grant Holloway won a gold medal in the 110-meter hurdles with a time of 12.99 seconds.
Aug. 9: Gabby Thomas, Sha’Carri Richardson, Melissa Jefferson and Twanisha Terry took first place in the women’s 4×100-meter relay, running a season-best 41.78.
Aug. 9: Rai Benjamin cleared 10 hurdles around the track to win Olympic gold in the men’s 400 hurdles, running a season-best 46.46.
Aug. 9: Olivia Reeves won gold in the 71kg weightlifting competition, giving the United States its first weightlifting gold medal in 24 years. Reeves’ gold was Team USA’s first since Tara Nott-Cunningham in 2000.
Aug: 10: The United States women’s national soccer team defeated Brazil 1-0 to earn their first gold since 2012.
Aug. 10: Masai Russell won gold in the women’s 100 hurdles with a time of 12.33, finishing .01 seconds ahead of France’s Cyréna Samba-Mayela.
Aug. 10: The U.S. men’s 4×400-meter relay team — Chris Bailey, Vernon Norwood, Bryce Deadmon, and Rai Benjamin — claimed gold with an Olympic record time of 2:54.43 over Botswana (silver) and Great Britain (Bronze).
Aug. 10: Shamier Little, Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone, Gabby Thomas, and Alexis Holmes won the women’s 4×400-meter relay race for the eighth consecutive Games with a time of 3:15.27, a new American record.
Aug. 10: The US men’s basketball team defeated France 98-87, marking the fifth consecutive Olympic gold medal for the American men. Steph Curry finished with a team-high 24 points, all coming from three-pointers. LeBron James added 14 points, while Kevin Durant and Devin Booker each had 15.
Aug. 11: With 144 points, Jennifer Valente won her second consecutive gold medal in women’s Omnium cycling at the National Velodrome.
Aug. 11: The U.S. women’s basketball team defeated France 67-66, giving the Americans their eighth consecutive gold medal and extending their winning streak at the Games to 61 games.
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