Team USA Wins Four More Swimming Medals at the Paris Olympics: 'Really Proud'

It's three more silver and an additional bronze for Team USA, thanks to superstar swimmers

Tuesday marked another fantastic day for the swimmers of Team USA.

After entering the fourth day of swimming finals at the 2024 Summer Olympics with 11 medals, Team USA is closing out July 30 with four more.

Regan Smith and Katharine Berkoff took silver and bronze in the 100-meter backstroke — just over a month after Smith set the world record for the event at U.S. Olympic Swim Trials in June. Though Australian gold medalist Kaylee McKeown set the Olympic record during the race — 57.33 seconds — Smith maintains her 57.13 record.

It was the first medal for Berkoff, whose father David Berkoff is a four-time Olympic medalist in swimming. For Smith, this is her fourth Olympic medal after swimming her way to three in Tokyo 2020.

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"I'm really proud of myself," Smith, 22, told reporters, including PEOPLE, after her race at La Defense Arena. She added of her teammate, "I'm so proud of Katherine and the legacy that she has upheld. Her dad is absolutely incredible and I know that he's proud of her too and it's just really special to kind of see that continue."

Katherine told PEOPLE while chatting with press that her father is in Paris for the Games, and his presence has been crucial: "He's been very supportive just trying to remind me to stay in my own lane, remember why I'm doing what I'm doing and just do it for myself."

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In the men's 800-meter freestyle, Bobby Finke placed second. The race requires stamina, as it's 16 lengths of the 50-meter pool. Finke, who previously won gold in the event during the Tokyo Games, swam the race in 7:38.75 — falling behind Ireland's Daniel Wiffen.

Finke told reporters including PEOPLE that while "it sucks not to win" he "really did the best I could and I got to be proud of that even though if it's not a gold."

"I just got to take that as motivation to go into the mile," Finke added of the upcoming 1500-meter freestyle race.

And, for an exciting end to the night, the U.S. men's 4x200-meter freestyle relay earned a silver medal. Luke Hobson, Carson Foster, Kieran Smith and Drew Kibler swam a time of 7:00.78, falling just behind Team Great Britain, who took gold.

"This group is really easy," Foster told PEOPLE while chatting with reporters. "I mean, we've all swam together for a couple of years now and so I think it's not much talking about the race. It's more just hanging out having a good time and having good energy before the race."

He added, "This is a group we love to race with and there's no better group to share the podium with."

Several U.S. swimmers competed in qualifying swims on Tuesday, including Gretchen Walsh and Torri Huske in the women's 100-meter freestyle. Both earned spots in the final later this week.

Matt Fallon and Josh Matheny swam in the men's 200-meter breaststroke semifinal, with Matheny qualifying for the final.

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