2024 Olympics in Paris: Day 9 medal count - tally by country today, August 4
Olympic medal table: how it stands after August 4
Paris 2024 medal table
🥇 United States: Gold 19 Silver 26 Bronze 26 - Total 71
🥈 China: Gold 19 Silver 15 Bronze 11 - Total 45
🥉 France: Gold 12 Silver 14 Bronze 18 - Total 44
Thank you for joining us here on AS USA today. It's fair to say it has been a momentous one and guess what... we're back tomorrow for lots more action on Monday.
Some of the medal events to look forward to are:
Men's and women's badminton finals; triathlon mixed relay; various artistic gymnastics finals; as well as medal deciders in pole vault, discuss, shooting, canoeing and much more.
We hope you can join us again!
Wow! 100m history made
As World Athletics has posted, tonight was the first time in history that eight men have finished the 100m in under 10 seconds in a wind-legal race. Tremendous watch!
Lyles gold!
As well as Noah taking the 2024 Olympic title, it's also helped Team USA onto the top of the medal table.
Noah Lyles sets PB to win men's 100m gold in an incredible photo finish.
100m final is lit
As World Athletics points out, for the first time in Olympic Games history running under 10 seconds does not guarantee a spot in the 100m final.
Have you been enjoying the athletics in Paris but had a nagging query involving purple and nine in the Olympic stadium? Well, here we are to help.
US women break 4x100m world record!
Team USA come home in 3:49.63 for gold and a new world record.
Huge congrats to Regan Smith, Lilly King, Gretchen Walsh, Torri Huske
Pan brings 4x100m home for China
More gold for China who come through in the final leg to pip France to the win. Bronze goes to Team USA.
You'll note these three nations are currently top of the overall medal count table.
Gold and world record for Finke
Bobby Finke finishes the men's 1500m free with a time of 14:30.67 to take gold and pop a new world record in the history books.
Silver goes to Gregorio Paltrinieri and bronze to Daniel Wiffen.
The winner takes it all!
Sweden's Sarah Sjöström took the women's 50m freestyle gold at La Défense Arena, finishing on 23.71, ahead of Australia's Meg Harris and China's Zhang Yufei.
Team USA's Gretchen Walsh was just out of the medals in fourth.
Lee and Wang successfully defend their title
Winners at Tokyo 2020, Chinese Taipei's Lee Yang and Wang Chi-lin did it again in Paris.
The pair edged a close, three-game match, beating top seeds Liang Weikeng and Wang Chang 21-17, 18-21, 21-19 to win the men's badminton doubles, becoming the first pair to successfully defend their Olympic men's doubles title.
Faulkner runs away with road race gold
Team USA's Kristen Faulkner took gold in women's road race, the pinnacle of the 31-year-old racer's career.
The Netherlands' Marianne Vos takes silver and Belgium's Lotte Kopecky goes home with bronze.
World No.1 Scheffler wins the men's golf
Scottie Scheffler edged out Team GB's Tommy Fleetwood and Japan's Matsuyama Hideki to wins the men's golf event
The American finished -19 to seal his first Olympic medal, added to his other triumphs this year: the Open and the Masters
Djokovic sees off Alcaraz to take gold
Novak Djokovic finally wins an Olympic gold medal, completing an extraordinary honors list.
The Serbian edged Carlos Alcaraz 7-6(3) 7-6(2) in this afternoon's final, in a close game in which both sets were decided by tiebreaks.
Djokovic won bronze in Beijing but the gold medal has always evaded him. He finished fourth in 2012 and 2020.
Alcaraz, who bear Djokovic at Wimbledon last month, wins silver in his Olympic debut.
Kaylia Nemour wins gold for Algeria
Kaylia Nemour, the big favorite to win the women's uneven bars gold, pulled out the performance of a lifetime to clinch the title.
The 17-year-old bar specialist, who has already posted nine of the top 10 scores this year, recorded an incredible score of 15.700 to end first on the podium.
China gold and silver in rings
Liu Yang and Zou Jingyuan put China further ahead on the medal board by taking gold and silver respectively in the rings event.
Liu Yang finished with a score of 15.300, Zou Jingyuan not far behind on 15.233 and Greece's Eleftherios Petrounias took bronze on 15.100.
Fan Zhendong endures fightback to take gold
China's Fan Zhendong withstood a brave fightback by Sweden's Truls Möregårdh to win the men's table tennis singles.
Fan saw his lead whittled away, missing seven match points to clinch his second Olumpic gold medal, his first individual gold.
Kim wins archery gold by 3 centimeters
Kim Woojin picked up another gold for South Korea in a dramatic finale to this afternoon's individual men's gold medal match.
The contest was decided by a shoot-off in which both Kim and USA's Brady Ellison hit 10 but the Korean's was just 3 centimeters closer to the center.
Kim picks up his third gold at 2024 Paris and becomes the first archer to win five gold medals at the Games.
Bronze for France!
Congratulations to Felix Lebrun, who collects a bronze in men's singles table tennis.
Allyson Felix, the legendary track and field star, embodies heroism through her inspiring love stories, motherhood challenges, and groundbreaking sports successes.
The knockout rounds of the basketball tournament are finally upon us, with the US looking for gold.
Bronze for Dominican Rep. and Canada
Congratulations to Yunior Alcantara Reyes (DOM, 51kg) and Wyatt Sanford (CAN, 63.5kg), who take bronze in the men's boxing.
In the cut-throat world of Olympic golf, where precision and nerves of steel are paramount, determining a champion sometimes requires more than the standard rounds. When competitors finish with identical scores, the competition moves into a thrilling playoff to decide the winner.
Ahead of Day 9 of the Olympics, things with Rahm (ESP), Schauffele (GER) and Fleetwood (GBR) are agonisingly tight at the top, and it’s got many wondering what would need to happen should they end the day tied.
USA Basketball closed the group stage with a win and head into knockout stage as one of the two top seeded team. Here’s who they face next.
Here's what's going on:
The track and field events are arguably the most popular events at the Olympic Games.
And Day 9 promises to be a memorable one.
Usain Bolt is the world’s fastest man: here are the records he holds.
Some fab Olympic snaps
The Olympic camera roll is always special, and this time is no different!
This is what the Olympic Games is about!
Look at the emotion from Team GB athlete Max Whitlock as he reunites with those closest to him after making his final appearance.
The U.S. swimmer made history, becoming the first woman to win four consecutive gold medals at the Olympic Games.
MARTIN BERNETTI / AFP
After that gold...
The men's 100m final is today, and the USA's Noah Lyles will be looking for gold...
Angela Carini has apologised after she retired from her fight against Imane Khelif, saying she “respects” the IOC’s decision to allow her to fight.
Imane Khelif has been the subject of controversy after online falsehoods spread regarding her eligibility to compete in women’s boxing.
Will we ever see his record beaten?
Usain Bolt holds the 100m sprint record, at 9.58 seconds - will we ever see anyone better it?
There's a chance later today, when the men's 100m final gets underway.
With so much sport on all the time, it can get quite confusing when trying to keep up with the action.
Here's all you need to know about what's going on at the Olympic Games today, August 4.
After a narrow win over Japan in the quarter-finals of the Olympic women’s soccer tournament, Emma Hayes’ USWNT are two steps away from gold.
Gold medal events:
Archery
🥇 7:00am-9:20am: Men’s individual: medal rounds
Artistic Gymnastics
🥇 9:00am-11:25am: Men’s rings, women’s uneven bars, Men’s vault: finals
Badminton
🥇 9:00am-11:30am: Men’s doubles: medal matches
Fencing
🥇 1:10pm-4:00pm: Men’s foil team: medal finals
Golf
🥇 3:00am-12:30pm: Men’s tournament: round 4 (medal final)
Swimming
🥇 12:30pm-2:30pm: Women’s 50m free: final, men’s 1500m free: final, men’s 4x100m medley relay: final, women’s 4x100m medley relay: final
Table Tennis
🥇 7:30am-10:00am: Men’s singles: medal finals
Tennis
🥇 6:00am-1:00pm: Women’s doubles: bronze, gold medal finals; Men’s singles: gold medal final
Going for gold
We've got a total of 20 gold medals up for grabs today as fully immerse ourselves in the sensational schedule of sport.
Welcome!
Hello and welcome to the AS USA live medal tally for Sunday, August 4.