The Summer Olympics 2024, hosted by Paris, France, shows USA with a total medal count of 12 as of Monday morning.
Although the USA has the most medals in total, they are behind on gold medal race and sit in fifth place with a total gold count of three, according to the official page of the Olympics. China leads the gold medal count with a total of five and their overall medal count is nine. Australia, Japan, and Republic of Korea each have a total of four golds. USA and France each have three golds.
Medalists for the weekend:
As previously reported, Californian Haley Batten, 25, takes the silver in Sunday’s Women’s Cross-Country – Cycling Mountain Bike event, a bronze was captured in Saturday’s Cycling Road event by Chloe Dygert, 27 of Colorado. On Saturday, July 27, in the Women’s Synchronized 3m Diving Springboard competition, Sarah Bacon, 27, and Kassidy Cook, 29, took home the silver losing out on the gold by a little over 23 points to the China team of Chang Yani, 22, and Chen Yiwen, 25. USA got the gold in the Men’s 4 x 100m Freestyle Relay, the silver in the Women’s 4 x 100m Freestyle Relay and Katie Ledecky, 27, of Florida, got a bronze medal in the Women’s 400m Freestyle.
In Fencing, USA took gold and silver in the Women’s Foil Individual. Lee Kiefer, 30, of Kentucky and Lauren Scruggs, 21, of New York finished one and two ahead of Canada’s Eleanor Harvey.
USA added a gold, two silvers and a bronze to their medal count in the Swimming events. Tori Huske, 21, of California, took gold in the Women’s 100m Butterfly. Silver medals garnered by Gretchen Walsh, 21, Virginia, in the Women’s 100m Butterfly, who finished second to teammate Huske, and Nic Fink, 31, Texas, in the Men’s 100m Breaststroke. Taking a bronze for the USA was Carson Foster ,22, Texas in the Men’s 400m Individual Medley.
Later on Monday, the men’s gymnastics team hopes for first medal in 16 years.
2024 Men’s Gymnastics Team – olympics.com