U.S. Olympic gold medal count: Here's every gold medal Team USA won at 2024 Paris Games

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U.S. Olympic gold medal count: Here's every gold medal Team USA won at 2024 Paris Games

Jordan Mendoza, USA TODAY · USA TODAY Sports

Sun, Aug 11, 2024 ·

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How many Olympic gold medals does Team USA have?

The Americans' final medal count is:

Total:126

Gold:40

Silver:44

Bronze:42

This section will be updated as medals are awarded.

USA gold medals at Paris Olympics

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

Aug 10 : United States guard LeBron James (6) and centre Anthony Davis (14) celebrate with their gold medals on the podium after defeating France in the men's basketball gold medal game during the Paris 2024 Olympic Summer Games at Accor Arena.

July 27:Team USA's first gold medal of the Paris Games came Saturday in the men's 4x100-meter relay . The team of Jack Alexy, Chris Guiliano, Hunter Armstrong and Caeleb Dressel posted a blistering 3:09.28 time to win gold.

July 28: Fencer Lee Kiefer won her second consecutive 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: 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.

Aug. 1: Michael Grady, Nick Mead, Justin Best and Liam Corrigan rowed to gold in the men's four finals with an incredible clocking of 5:49.03, holding off New Zealand (silver) by less than a second (5:49.88), and Great Britain (bronze, 5:52.42). It had been 64 years since Team USA had won the Olympic men's four rowing event.

Aug. 1: Simone Biles edged out Brazil's Rebeca Andrade in the all-around final to become the oldest all-around Olympic champion since 1952. Biles, 27, is also just the third woman in history to win multiple golds in the all-around, and the first to win all-around titles eight years apart.

Aug. 1: The U.S. women's foil team – made up of fencers Lee Kiefer and Lauren Scruggs, who won individual gold and silver earlier this week, respectively – beat top-seeded Italy for its first gold medal in the women's team foil event, 45-39.

Aug. 1: Swimmer Kate Douglass is officially an Olympic champion , winning the women's 200-meter breaststroke final with a time of 2:19. 24 – a new American record.

Aug. 3: By winning gold in the men's individual skeet shooting event, Vincent Hancock entered the pantheon of Olympic icons. He became the seventh Olympian in history to earn four gold medals in an individual event, and is just the fifth American to do so (joining Katie Ledecky, Michael Phelps, Carl Lewis and Al Oerter).

Aug. 3: Simone Biles won her second Olympic title on vault , adding to the gold she won in 2016. It was her 10th Olympic medal and seventh gold. At these Paris Games alone, Biles has already won three medals, all of them gold.

Aug. 3: Shot putter Ryan Crouser won his third consecutive Olympic gold medal with a throw of 75 feet, 1¾ inches. He's 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 , completing her week with her fourth medal in Paris and 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: The USA's mixed 4x100-meter medley relay team of Ryan Murphy (backstroke), Nic Fink (breaststroke), Gretchen Walsh (butterfly) and Torri Huske (freestyle) set a new world record in the event , winning a thrilling race by .04 seconds over China.

Aug. 4:Bobby Finke defended his Olympic title in the men's 1,500-meter freestyle final, breaking the world record in a race he never trailed in to win gold.

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 4x100-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 proved he is the fastest man in the world by winning the men's 100-meter final in a photo finish.

Aug. 5:Valarie Allman made it back-to-back golds in discus throw with a throw of 69.50.

Aug. 5: Caroline Marks won the women's shortboard surfing in 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 , sprinting to the finish 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: Team USA, made up of Lily Williams, Jennifer Valente, Kristen Faulkner and Chloe Dygert, won its first-ever gold medal in Women's Team Pursuit.

Aug. 7: Quincy Hall won gold in the men's 400-meter dash. He trailed early but a spectacular straightaway dash allowed him to claim gold with a personal best time of 43.40.

Aug. 7: Sarah Hildebrandt gave Team USA its second wrestling gold medal in as many nights at the 2024 Paris Olympics , defeating Yusneylys Guzmán of Cuba, 3-0, in the 50-kilogram final at Champ-de-Mars Arena.

Aug. 8:Tara Davis-Woodhall won gold in the long jump by leaping 7.1 meters (or more than 23 feet) through the air.

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 lowered 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:The star-powered U.S. women's 4x100-meter relay team – featuring Gabby Thomas, Sha'Carri Richardson, Melissa Jefferson and Twanisha Terry – cruised to first place, 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. It's Benjamin's first Olympic gold medal.

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 gold, their first gold medal since 2012. Mallory Swanson, part of head coach Emma Hayes ' new front three along with Sophia Smith and Trinity Rodman , scored the game-winner in the 57th minute. Korbin Albert, inserted by Hayes into the starting lineup for the final, set her up with a timely through ball.

Aug. 10: Masai Russell won gold in the women's 100 hurdles in a close photo finish. She ran a time of 12.33 to earn the gold, finishing .01 seconds ahead of France's Cyréna Samba-Mayela, who ran a 12.34 to place second. Puerto Rico's Jasmine Camacho-Quinn crossed the line at 12.36 to come in third.

Aug. 10: The U.S. men's 4x400-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:The American quartet of Shamier Little, Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone , Gabby Thomas and Alexis Holmes dominated the women's 4x400-meter relay race and won gold in the event for the eighth consecutive Games with a time of 3:15.27, a new American record. Netherlands finished with a silver medal and Great Britain earned a bronze.

Aug. 10:The U.S. men's basketball team defeated France 98-87 to claim gold at Bercy Arena, 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:Jennifer Valente won her second consecutive gold medal in women's Omnium cycling at the National Velodrome. Valente totaled 144 points, edging Poland's Daria Pikulik (silver) and New Zealand's Ally Wollaston (bronze).

Aug. 11:The U.S. women's basketball team held on to defeat France, 67-66 in the Olympic final, giving the Americans their eighth consecutive gold medal and extending their winning streak at the Games to 61 games.