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Gold: Summer Sanders: Swimming: Women's 200 meter butterfly: July 31 Gold: Gail Devers: Athletics: Women's 100 meters: August 1 Gold: Jackie Joyner-Kersee: Athletics: Heptathlon: August 2 Gold: Joe Jacobi Scott Strausbaugh: Canoeing: Slalom C-2: August 2 Gold: Trent Dimas: Gymnastics: Horizontal bar: August 2 Gold: Mike Conley: Athletics: Men's ...
The United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee (USOPC) is the National Olympic Committee for the United States. American athletes have won a total of 2,765 medals (1,105 of them gold) at the Summer Olympic Games, and another 330 (114 of them gold) at the Winter Olympic Games, making the United States the most prolific medal-winning nation in ...
Four U.S. Olympic gymnasts returned to the 2024 Olympics - Simone Biles, Jade Carey, Jordan Chiles and Sunisa Lee. In addition, 16 year old Hezly Rivera was chosen for the team. The five won the team all-around gold medal, while Biles and Lee won the gold and bronze individual all-around medals, respectively. Biles went on to win gold on vault ...
The men's national basketball team of the United States won the gold medal at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan. The Olympics were delayed a year until 2021 because of the COVID-19 pandemic. [1] It was the fourth consecutive Olympic gold medal for the Americans. Team USA qualified for the Olympics by finishing as one of the top two teams ...
Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone wears a crown after breaking the world record in her gold medal win in the womens 400-meter hurdle final at the Paris 2024 Summer Olympic Games on Aug. 8, 2024, in Paris ...
The fastest American woman in the 100 meters dash Sha'Carri Richardson missed the Olympics due to a positive test for marijuana, two-time pole vault world champion Sam Kendricks was out with COVID-19, 2016 110m hurdles gold medalist Brianna Rollins-McNeal was suspended for missed drug tests, and two-time defending gold medalist and 2019 world ...
Canada’s Summer McIntosh won silver in the event nearly a full second behind Titmus, and Ledecky came in third at 4:00.86 to grab her first medal in Paris. The three-way duel had been dubbed as ...
The 1972 Olympic men's basketball gold medal game, marking the first ever loss for the US in Olympic play, ranks among the most controversial events in Olympic history. The United States rode their seven consecutive gold medals and 63–0 Olympic record to Munich for the 1972 Summer Olympics. The team won its first eight games in convincing ...