Team USA Jumps To Top Of Olympic Scoreboard After Three Gold Medals Monday

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won gold medals Monday, with English setting an Olympic record and Hancock becoming the first skeet shooter to win three Olympic gold medals after victories in Beijing 2008 and London 2012.

Team USA also won gold in the men’s swimming 4x100m freestyle relay, with world record holder Katie Ledecky scoring silver in the anticipated women’s 400m freestyle. U.S. swimmers in the women’s 100m butterfly and men’s 100m breaststroke narrowly missed out on bronze medals. Japan’s Momiji Nishiya—who is just 13 years old—won gold for the host nation in the first ever women’s skateboarding competition at the Olympics, with MIT-educated Alexis Sablone of Team USAWith 14 medals—seven gold, three silver and four bronze—the U.S. is just behind China—which has six golds, three silvers and six bronzes—though Team USA is ahead on some leaderboards that give a stronger weighting to gold medals.

 

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