The Tokyo 2020 Olympics is underway and the United States is
looking to add more hardware to its already extensive collection. The US is the
all-time leader in Olympic medals with nearly 3,000—more than twice that of the
next closest country—but a few more medals never hurt.
While the United States was projected to dominate the
competition in Tokyo, some events fell out of reach, with medals going to other
countries.
Softball had hoped to avenge its loss to Japan in the Olympic
gold medal game 13 years ago but had to be content with silver. Nyjah Huston considered the world's best skateboarder and endorsed gold medalist, finished
seventh out of eight athletes in the men's street finals.
Nevertheless, the United States has collected some memorable
medals. Sydney McLaughlin and Delilah Muhammad won the gold and silver medals
respectively in the 400 m hurdles, with McLaughlin setting a world record. Team The USA has three medals (2 gold, 1 bronze) in the three latest Olympic events: 3x3
basketball, skateboarding and surfing. Jessica Parratto and Delaney Schnell won
the United States' first medals in women's synchronized diving and Katie
Ledecky won two gold medals, won the inaugural women's 1,500 m freestyle race,
and capped her Olympics with a victory in the 800 m freestyle.
Here's where each of Team USA's medals came from:
Total U.S. medal count
Total: 92
Gold: 30
Silver: 35
Bronze: 27
Basketball: 1 Medal
Gold: Women's 3x3 - Elisha Grey, Kelsey Plum, Stephanie
Dolson and Jackie Young
Boxing: 2 Medals
Silver: Men's Featherweight - Duke Ragan
Bronze: Women's Welterweight: O'Shea Jones
Canoe/Kayak: 1 Medal
Gold: Women's Canoe 120m Sprint - Nevin Harrison
Cycling: 2 medals
Silver: Women's BMX Freestyle - Hannah Roberts
Bronze: Women's team pursuit - Megan Jastrab, Jennifer
Valente, Chloe Diegert, Emma White, Lily Williams
Diving: 3 Medals
Silver: Women's Synchronized 10-Meter Platform - Jessica
Parratto and Delaney Schnell
Silver: Men's Synchronized 3-Meter Springboard - Michael
Hixon and Andrew Capobianco
Bronze: Women's 3m springboard -- Krista Palmer
Horse riding: 1 medal
Silver: Team Dressage - Adrienne Lyle, Stephen Peters and
Sabine Schutt-Carey
Fencing: 2 Medals
Gold: Female Personal Foil -- Lee Kiefer
Bronze: Men's foil team - Alex Masiales, Res Imboden and
Gerek Meinhardt
Golf: 1 Medal
Gold: Men's individual stroke play -- Xander Schöffele
Gymnastics: 6 medals
Gold: Women's Floor Exercise -- Jade Carey
Gold: Women Around - Suni Lee
Silver: Women's Vault -- Mykayla Skinner
Silver: Women's Team Final - Simone Biles, Jordan Chillies,
Suni Lee and Grace McCallum
Bronze: Women's Balance Beam - Simone Biles
Bronze: Women's unequal bar -- Suni Lee
Shooting: 6 Medals
Gold: Men's 10m Air Rifle --William Shaner
Gold: Men's Skeet -- Vincent Hancock
Gold: Women's Skeet -- Amber English
Silver: Mixed 10-Meter Air Rifle - Mary Tucker and Lukas
Kozeniski
Silver: Women's Trap -- Kayleigh Browning
Bronze: Mixed Team Trap - Madeline Ann Bernau and Brian
Burrows
Skateboarding: 2 Medals
Bronze: Men's Park -- Corey Junaus
Bronze: Men's Street -- Jagger Eaton
Football: 1 medal
Bronze: Jane Campbell, Abby Dahlkemper, Tierna Davidson,
Crystal Dunn, Julie Ertz, Adriana Franch, Tobin Heath, Lindsay Horan, Casey
Krueger, Rose Lavelle, Carli Lloyd, Caterina Macario, Christy Mewis, Samantha
Mewis, Alex Morgan, Alyssa Nahar, Kelly O'Hara, Kristen Press, Megan Rapinoe,
Becky Sauerbrunn, Emily Sonnett, Lynn Williams
Softball: 1 Medal
Silver: Monica Abbott, Ali Aguilar, Valerie Ariotto, Ally
Carda, Amanda Chidester, Rachel Garcia, Haley McIlhenny, Michelle Moultrie,
Deja Mulipola, Aubrey Munro, Bubba Nickels, Kat Osterman, Jenny Reid, Delaney
Spalding, Kelsey Stewart
Sport climbing: 1 medal
Silver: Men's Combined -- Nathaniel Coleman
Surfing: 1 Medal
Gold: Female - Carissa Moore
Swimming: 30 medals
Gold: Men's 4x100m medley relay - Ryan Murphy, Michael
Andrew, Caleb Dressel and Zach Apple, Joseph Armstrong*, Andrew Wilson*, Tom
Shields*, Blake Pieroni*
Gold: Men's 1,500m freestyle -- Bobby Finke
Gold: Men's 50m freestyle -- Caeleb Dressel
Gold: Women's 800m Freestyle: Katie Ledecky
Gold: Men's 100m butterfly -- Caeleb Dressel
Gold: Men's 100m freestyle -- Caeleb Dressel
Gold: Men's 800m freestyle -- Bobby Finke
Gold: 4x100-meter relay - Caleb Dressel, Blake Pieroni, Bowe
Baker, Zach Apple and Brooks Curry*
Gold: Men's 400m Individual Medley - Chase Kaliszo
Gold: Women's 100m breaststroke -- Lydia Jacobi
Gold: Women's 1,500m freestyle -- Katie Ledecky
Silver: Women's 4x100m Medley Relay - Regan Smith, Lydia
Jacobi, Tori Haske and Abby Weitzel, Ryan White*, Lily King*, Claire Curzon*,
Erica Brown*
Silver: Men's 200m Backstroke - Ryan Murphy
Silver: Women's 200m breaststroke -- Lily King
Silver: Women's 4x200m Freestyle Relay - Katie Ledecky,
Allison Schmidt, Paige Madden, Katie McLaughlin, Arabella Sims* and Brooke
Ford*
Silver: Women's 200m butterfly -- Regan Smith
Silver: Men's 400m Individual Medley - Jay Litherland
Silver: Women's 400m freestyle -- Katie Ledecky
Silver: Women's 400m Individual Medley - Emma Vayanta
Silver: Women's 1,500m freestyle -- Erica Sullivan
Silver: Women's 200m Individual Medley - Alex Walshow
Bronze: Women's 200m breaststroke - Annie Lazor
Bronze: Women's 200m butterfly -- Hallie Flickinger
Bronze: Men's 100m backstroke -- Ryan Murphy
Bronze: Men's 400m freestyle -- Kieran Smith
Bronze: Women's 100m Backstroke - Regan Smith
Bronze: Women's 100m breaststroke -- Lily King
Bronze: Women's 400m individual medley -- Hallie Flickinger
Bronze: Women's 400m Freestyle Relay - Erica Brown, Abby
Weitzel, Simone Manuel, Natalie Hinds, Olivia Smoliga*, Katie Deluf* and
Allison Schmidt*
Bronze: Women's 200m Individual Medley - Kate Douglas
Taekwondo: 1 Medal
Gold: Women's 57kg - Anastasija Zolotik
Track and field: 20 medals
Gold: Men's shot put -- Ryan Krauser
Gold: Women's 400m Hurdles - Sydney McLaughlin
Gold: Women's 800m -- Anything Mu
Gold: Women's Discus -- Valerie Allman
Gold: Women's Pole Vault -- Katie Ngote
Silver: Men's shot put -- Joe Kovacs
Silver: Men's 110m Hurdles - Grant Holloway
Silver: Women's 400m hurdles - Delilah Muhammad
Silver: Men's 400m hurdles - Rai Benjamin
Silver: Women's long jump -- Brittany Reese
Silver: Women's 100m Hurdles - Kenny Harrison
Silver: Women's Shotput - Raven Saunders
Silver: Men's 100 meters -- Fred Carey
Silver: Men's Pole Vault - Christopher Nilssen
Silver: Women's 3,000m steeplechase -- Courtney Freirich
Silver: Men's 200m -- Kenneth Bednarecki
Bronze: Women's 200m - Gabrielle Thomas
Bronze: Women's 800m - Ravin Rogers
Bronze: 4x400 Mixed-Gender Relay - Trevor Stewart, Kendall
Ellis, Kaylin Whitney and Vernon Norwood, Lena Irby*, Taylor Manson*, Bryce
Deadman*, Eliza Godwin*
Bronze: Men's 200m -- Noah Lyles
Triathlon: 2 Medals
Silver: Mixed Riley - Katie Zafares, Kevin McDowell, Taylor
Nibb, Morgan Pearson
Bronze: Women -- Katie Zafares
Volleyball: 1 medal
Gold: Women's Beach Volleyball - Alix Klineman, April Ross
Weightlifting: 2 medals
Silver: Women's 76kg -- Kate Nye
Bronze: Women's +87 kg -- Sarah Robles
Wrestling: 5 Medals
Gold: Women's 68kg Freestyle - Tamira Mensa-Stock
Gold: Men's 86kg Freestyle - David Taylor
Silver: Women's 76kg freestyle -- Adeline Gray
Bronze: Men's 57kg freestyle - Thomas Patrick Gilman
Bronze: Women's Freestyle 57kg - Helen Maroulis
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