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 61 medals — 14 gold, 24 silver and 23 bronze. America leads the overall medal count, followed by the host country France (41), China (37) and Great Britain (33).
Team USA gold medalists
Team USA’s first gold medal of the Paris Games came 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.
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:U.S. 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: U.S. 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 4×100-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.
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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.
Aug. 1: American swimmer Regan Smith took home silver medal in 200-meter butterfly, her second of the Paris Games.
Aug 1:Team USA won a silver medal in the women’s 4×200-meter relay. The team of Claire Weinstein, Paige Madden, Katie Ledecky and Erin Gemmell posted a 7:40.86 time to finish behind Australia. The silver medal marks Ledecky’s 13th overall Olympic medal, the most ever by female American Olympian in any sport.
Aug. 2: American Sagen Maddalena was a surprise medalist in the women’s 50-meter three-position rifle shooting competition, taking home silver. It marks Team USA’s first Olympic medal in shooting at the Paris Games.
Aug. 2:The U.S. won its third consecutive silver medal in the team jumping event. The trio of Laura Kraut, Karl Cook and McClain Ward – and their horses Baloutine, Caracole de la Roque and Ilex, respectively – accomplished the feat Friday at the historic Chateau de Versailles.
Aug. 2: American swimmer Regan Smith picked up another silver medal, her third of the Paris Games, in the 200-meter backstroke final. Smith finished behind Australian star Kaylee McKeown, who swept the women’s backstroke events at the Olympics for the second straight Games.
Aug. 3: Conner Lynn Prince finished behind fellow American Vincent Hancock to earn silver in the men’s individual skeet shooting event.
Aug. 3: For the third consecutive Olympics, Joe Kovacs finished second behind history-making U.S. shot putter Ryan Crouser.
Aug. 3: A day after breaking the world record in the 4×400-meter mixed relay, the team of Kaylyn Brown, Bryce Deadmon, Shamier Little, Vernon Norwood finished second to the Netherlands in the final.
Aug. 3: The tandem of Austin Krajicek and Rajeev Ram earned silver in men’s tennis doubles, losing the final to Australia’s Matt Ebden and John Peers in a tiebreaker.
Aug. 3: Sha’Carri Richardson settled for silver as Saint Lucia’s Julien Alfred was the surprising winner of the title of ‘world’s fastest woman.’
Aug. 3: Kate Douglass won the silver in the women’s 200-meter individual medley, finishing behind Canadian Summer McIntosh, who won her third gold of the Paris Olympics.
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.
Aug. 1: American gymnast Suni Lee, the 2020 Tokyo Olympics all-around champion, finished on the women’s all-around podium in Paris, taking bronze in the all-around final behind gold medalist Simone Biles and silver medalist Rebeca Andrade of Brazil.
Aug. 2:Ian Barrows and Hans Henken earned a bronze medal in the men’s skiff during sailing competition, which marked Team USA’s first-ever Olympic medal in the event. Spain earned gold and New Zealand took silver.
Aug. 2:Americans Casey Kaufhold and Brady Ellison combined Friday to win the bronze medal in the archery mixed team competition. The Americans beat India 6-2 in the bronze medal match after losing 5-3 to Germany in the semifinals.
Aug. 2: In a photo finish, American Grant Fisher finished third in the men’s 10,000 meters in 26:43.46 Friday night to claim bronze, finishing just barely behind Ethiopia’s Berihu Aregawi, who ran a 26:43.44.
Aug. 3: The team of Chris Carlson, Peter Chatain, Clark Dean. Henry Hollingsworth, Rielly Milne, Evan Olson, Pieter Quinton, Nick Rusher and Christian Tabash in the men’s eight rowing event.
Aug. 3: Five days after helping the U.S. win bronze in the men’s gymnastics team event, Stephen Nedoroscik had another standout performance on the pommel horse.
Aug. 3: Jade Carey claimed the bronze medal in the vault, the same event which was won by U.S. teammate Simone Biles.
Aug. 3: Jasmine Moore won the bronze medal in the women’s triple jump, finishing behind Dominica’s Thea LaFond and Jamaica’s Shanieka Ricketts.
Aug. 3: The tandem of Taylor Fritz and Tommy Paul took the bronze in the men’s doubles tennis event.
Aug. 3: Paige Madden earned the bronze medal in the women’s 800-meter freestyle event, which was won by U.S. teammate Katie Ledecky.
Aug. 3: Melissa Jefferson won bronze in the women’s 100-meter dash, finishing behind Saint Lucia’s Julien Alfred and U.S. teammateSha’Carri Richardson.
