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Here's what you should know from Day 7 of competition.

On Friday, defending Olympic champion Kaylee McKeown of Australia faced off against American Regan Smith for the second time of these Olympic Games. McKeown and Smith finished one-two in the women's 100m backstroke final on Tuesday and were poised for another close finish in the 200m final.

McKeown blazed through the women's 200m backstroke final, finishing with a time of 2:03.73 to claim the gold and sweep both the 100m and 200m for the second-straight Olympics. The Aussie speedster is only the third woman to win this event twice, and is now the owner of five gold medals and one bronze at just 23 years old. 

Smith finished in 2:04.26, one of her personal records, and took home the silver medal, her sixth Olympic medal overall.

"I think if I’d gotten a silver medal and been a second slower, I would have been really disappointed in myself," Smith said. "That’s one of my fastest times ever, and I really gave Kaylee a run for her money. I made things close and exciting. I’m thrilled with it."

Results: Women's 200m Backstroke

🥇 Kaylee McKeown (AUS)
🥈 Regan Smith (USA)
🥉 Kylie Masse (CAN)

Hometown hero Leon Marchand of France won his fourth gold medal of the Paris Olympic Games after his dominant performance in Friday's men's 200m individual medley. 

Marchand finished with a blazing time of 1:54.06, with Great Britain's Duncan Scott (1:55.31) and Wang Shun of China (1:56.00) taking silver and bronze, respectively.

"It was crazy," Marchand said. "Once again, the public was here (cheering). It was my last individual race, so I told myself that I had to really enjoy it.

"I had a lot more energy than yesterday, I felt way more relaxed, and I really wanted to do good in my last final, and that was what happened, so it was great."

Marchand is only the fourth swimmer to win four individual races in one Games (Michael Phelps: 2004, 2008; Mark Spitz: 1972; Kristin Otto: 1988). 

Results: Men's 200m Individual Medley

🥇 Leon Marchand (FRA)
🥈 Duncan Scott (GBR)
🥉 Wang Shun (CHN)

Friday marked the first time Sha'Carri Richardson took the track at the Stade de France. And the first time she set foot on an Olympic track.

Richardson completed Round 1 in 10.94 seconds to secure the victory in her heat and punch her ticket to Saturday's semifinal round.

She is the reigning world champion in the 100m and is looking to become the first American woman since Gail Devers in 1996 to win Olympic gold in the event.

After the rounds concluded, it was announced that Richardson was placed in the same semifinal heat (the second of three semis) as Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, who has won a medal in this event four consecutive times and Julien Alfred, the third-fastest woman in the world this year. The trio were three of the five fastest women in the first round. 

The first two in each of the three semifinals and the next two fastest overall will qualify for the final.

WOMEN'S 100 ROUND 1 RESULTS

Also, the U.S. mixed 4x400m relay team of Vernon Norwood, Shamier Little, Kaylyn Brown and Bryce Deadmon broke the world record with a time of 3:07.41.

MIXED RELAY ROUND 1 FULL RESULTS

In the only individual medal event of the day, American Grant Fisher took bronze in the men's 10,000m —  his first-ever Olympic medal. Fisher is the fourth American man to win a medal in the 10,000m, and the second in the last 60 years.

Results: Men's 10,000m

🥇 Joshua Cheptegei (UGA)
🥈 Berihu Aregawi (ETH)
🥉 Grant Fisher (USA)

The U.S. men's soccer team, which is making its first Olympic appearance since 2008, lost 4-0 to Morocco in the quarterfinals on Friday.

The last time the U.S. men reached the semifinals was at the 2000 Sydney Games, where they finished in fourth place.

The Americans’ journey at the Paris Games is over while Morocco will advance to face Spain in the semifinals.

MATCH STATS

The U.S. duo of Casey Kaufhold and Brady Ellison won bronze in the mixed team archery event, which made its Olympic debut three years ago in Tokyo. 

It's the fourth Olympic medal (2 silver, 2 bronze) for Ellison, 35, who became the most decorated American archer ever. 

Kaufhold, won her first medal in her second Olympic appearance.

This is the United States' first archery medal since the 2016 Rio Olympics.

Results: Archery - Mixed Team

🥇 Kim Woo-Jin & Lim Si-Hyeon (KOR)
🥈 Michelle Kroppen & Florian Unruh (GER)
🥉 Brady Ellison & Casey Kaufhold  (USA)

FULL RESULTS

The United States won silver in the equestrian team jumping event on Friday, the fifth of six equestrian medal events at the Paris Olympics. The U.S. missed just one jump across all three riders in the finals.

Karl Cook, riding Caracole de Roque, found out that he would be riding just hours before qualifying began when Kent Farrington's horse Greya was scratched with an allergic reaction.

Laura Kraut, riding Baloutine, recently became a grandmother and won her third Olympic medal on Friday. At age 58, Kraut is the oldest female Olympian to win a medal for the U.S. since 1904. 

McLain Ward, riding Ilex, won his fifth Olympic medal.

Results: Equestrian - Team jumping

🥇 Great Britain
🥈United States
🥉 France

FULL RESULTS

Iga Swiatek defeated Anna Karolina Schmiedlova  in the bronze medal match, becoming the first Polish player to win an Olympic medal in tennis.

The women’s singles gold medal match between China's Zheng Qinwen and Donna Vekic of Croatia will take place on Saturday, Aug. 3, at 6 a.m. ET. Meanwhile, Spaniard Carlos Alcaraz will face Serbia's Novak Djokovic once again, but this time for gold (Sunday, Aug. 4, at 9 a.m. ET) after both men won their semifinal matches on Friday.

• American Sagen Maddalena won silver in the women's smallbore rifle three positions final. The win gives Maddalena, who is a sergeant in the U.S. Army, her first Olympic medal.
• The men's skiff team of Ian Barrows and Hans Henken won bronze for the first U.S. sailing medal since 2016.
• The U.S. women's water polo team clinched a spot in the quarterfinals with a 17-5 win over France on Friday.
• France got its first podium sweep of the Paris Games when Joris Daudet, Sylvain Andre and Romain Mahieu went 1-2-3 in men's BMX racing.
• Frech judo legend Teddy Riner, who was one of the cauldron lighters at the Opening Ceremony, won the men's 100+kg tournament to win his fourth career gold medal and sixth medal overall. He's now the most decorated judoka of all time and could break the record for most gold medals by any French Olympian (summer) if France wins tomorrow's mixed team judo event.
• After the first two rounds of the men's golf competition, Xander Schauffele, Hideki Matsuyama and Tommy Fleetwood are in a three-way tie for the lead at -11.
• The U.S. men's volleyball team beat Japan to secure its spot in the knockout rounds.
• U.S. beach volleyball duo Kelly Cheng and Sarah Hughes finished pool play with a 3-0 record and are headed to the Round of 16.

COMPLETE STANDINGS

On Day 7 of competition, 23 medals were contested after the men's and women's sailing windsurfing events were postponed due to lack of wind. The United States entered the day leading all countries with 37 total medals, and after several podium-worthy performances across multiple disciplines, Team USA added six more medals to the collection (three silver, three bronze). 

The host country, France, won nine medals on Friday, bringing its total to 36, thanks in part to star swimmer Leon Marchand's four gold-winning performances in the Games.