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USA track and field medals count: How Americans fared in athletics at 2024 Paris Olympics

Team USA has showed off its speed and strength at the 2024 Paris Olympics.

The Americans fared well in the pool, but dominated athletics.

The U.S. won by far the most medals in track and field with 34 overall, the most for the U.S. since winning 40 the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics. Team USA also has the most in each color with 14 golds, 11 silvers and nine bronze medals. No other country has more than 10 total track and field medals.

In a distant second was Kenya with 11 overall medals, followed by Great Britain with 10, Australia with seven, and the Netherlands and Jamaica with six apiece.

Here's every medal won by Team USA in the athletic events, broken down by what medal Americans grabbed:

Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone (USA) and Tara Davis-Woodhall (USA) celebrate together after they both won gold medals during the Paris 2024 Olympic Summer Games at Stade de France.
Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone (USA) and Tara Davis-Woodhall (USA) celebrate together after they both won gold medals during the Paris 2024 Olympic Summer Games at Stade de France.

Team USA's gold medals in track and field

Team USA's silver medals in track and field

  • Men's shot put, Aug. 3: Joe Kovacs took the silver medal in shot put with a throw of 69 feet, 4¾ inches, finishing just behind fellow American Ryan Crouser.

  • 4x400-meter mixed relay, Aug. 3: The team of Vernon Norwood, Shamier Little, Kaylyn Brown and Bryce Deadmon won silver in the mixed relay. The U.S. 4x400 mixed relay team broke the world record in the opening round.

  • Women's 100 meters, Aug. 3: Sha'Carri Richardson got silver in the race for the world's fastest woman. Julien Alfred of Saint Lucia won the race with a time of 10.72 seconds, while Richardson was second at 10.87.

  • Men's pole vault, Aug. 5: Despite injuring himself, Sam Kendricks won the silver medal in the men's pole vault. He finished behind Mondo Duplantis of Sweden, who set the pole vault world record.

  • Women's hammer throw, Aug. 6: Annette Nneka Echikunwoke earned the silver medal in the women's hammer throw when she threw a season-best 75.48 meters.

  • Women's pole vault, Aug. 7: Katie Moon vaulted 15 feet, 11 inches in her final successful attempt to earn silver in the women's pole vault event. Nina Kennedy of Australia took the gold medal with a jump of 16 feet, ¾ inches.

  • Men's 3,000-meter steeplechase, Aug. 7: Kenneth Rooks shocked the men's 3,000-meter steeplechase when he took silver in the event. He clocked a personal-best of 8:06.41 in the race.

  • Women's 400-meter hurdles, Aug. 8: Anna Cockrell made it 1-2 for the U.S. when she came in second in the women’s 400-meter hurdles with a personal-best time of 51.87, finishing behind fellow American Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone.

  • Men's 110-meter hurdles, Aug. 8: Daniel Roberts came in second place in the 110-meter hurdles, finishing a tenth of a second behind teammate Grant Holloway at 13.09.

  • Men's 200 meters, Aug. 8: Kenny Bednarek captured silver in the men's 200-meter final with a time of 19.62. Bednarek finished behind Botswana’s Letsile Tebogo, who ran a 19.46.

  • Men's high jump, Aug. 10: Shelby McEwen took silver in the men's high jump to get the first high jump medal for the U.S. since 2012.

Team USA's bronze medals in track and field

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