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Of the 29 gold medal events contested on Saturday, the United States won 18 medals (five gold, six silver and seven bronze), making for the best one-day medal haul since the 1988 Seoul Games. 

Here's what you should know from Day 8 of competition:

• Katie Ledecky secured a historic ninth gold medal after winning the women's 800m freestyle for the fourth consecutive time.
• Team USA gymnastics' Simone Biles and Jade Carey won gold and bronze, respectively, in the women's vault final.
• American sensation Stephen Nedoroscik clinched the bronze medal in the men's pommel horse final.
• Track & Field star Sha'Carri Richardson took home the silver medal in the women's 100m final.
• The USWNT beat Japan, 1-0, in extra time to advance to the semifinals.
• U.S. shot putter Ryan Crouser won an unprecedented third gold medal.

Read on for more details...

Julien Alfred won the first-ever Olympic medal in Saint Lucia's history with a commanding win in the women's 100m final on Saturday. 

Alfred finished in 10.72 seconds to claim victory in the final, finishing 0.15 seconds ahead of reigning world champion Sha'Carri Richardson, who took silver in 10.87 seconds for her first Olympic medal. Richardson's U.S. teammate and training partner Melissa Jefferson also claimed her first Olympic medal, taking bronze in 10.92 seconds.

The United States has won 20 total medals in the women’s 100m — the most of any country.

RESULTS

Results: Women's 100m

🥇 Julien Alfred (LCA)
🥈 Sha'Carri Richardson (USA)
🥉 Melissa Jefferson (USA)

American Ryan Crouser became the Legendary status: U.S. shot putter Ryan Crouser wins unprecedented third gold medal, after he clinched the top podium spot in the men's shot put final on Saturday with a throw of 22.90m. Joe Kovacs, also representing the United States, took home the silver. Crouser and Kovacs join Ralph Rose (1904-1912) and Parry O'Brien (1952-1960) as the only men in history to win three Olympic shot put medals. American Payton Otterdahl finished in fourth, just shy of the podium.

“I feel so lucky to be out there competing," Crouser said. "This year hasn’t been easy. The elbow injury, the back… just so many setbacks and a lot of self-doubt as to whether I would get back.

"It took a lot to get back to where I had been in the past. It’s made it all the more special to be out there tonight. There were a lot of times I thought I might not be."

RESULTS

Results: Men's shot put

🥇 Ryan Crouser (USA)
🥈 Joe Kovacs (USA)
🥉 Rajindra Campbell (JAM)

The United States' mixed 4x400m relay team of Vernon Norwood, Shamier Little, Bryce Deadmon and Kaylyn Brown, took home the silver medal in Saturday's final. The Netherlands' Femke Bol caught Brown on the final stretch of the race to win the country's first gold in this event in world-record time.

The silver medal is the third Olympic medal for both Norwood and Deadmon, who won mixed relay bronze and 4x400m gold in Tokyo. Little and Brown won their first medals in their Olympic debut.

Results: Mixed 4x400m Relay

🥇 Netherlands
🥈 United States
🥉 Great Britain

Noah Lyles hit the track for the first time in Round 1 of the men's 100m as he begins his campaign to become the first American man to win gold in both the 100m and 200m at the same Games since Carl Lewis in 1984. He finished in second place to advance to the semifinal. Americans Kenny Bednarek and Fred Kerley also advanced to the next round. All three Americans will compete in the semifinals on Sunday, Aug. 4.

RESULTS

Simone Biles continued her dominance by winning the women's vault final on Saturday. Brazil's Rebeca Andrade earned silver and Jade Carey took bronze.

Biles competed the Yurchenko double pike, also known as the Biles II. It is the most difficult vault ever done by a woman.

Biles earned her 10th Olympic medal and seventh career gold, becoming the fifth woman with at least 10 Olympic medals in women's gymnastics. She is also the second woman to win two Olympic golds in this event, joining Czechoslovakia’s Vera Caslavska (1964, 1968).

"(I was) a little bit tired going into the finals, but I kept pushing, and I'm excited to be on the podium with Jade again, as well as Rebeca," said Biles.

Her seventh gold ties her with Allyson Felix for the third most all-time among American women behind Jenny Thompson (eight) and Katie Ledecky (nine).

Biles has now won three golds in three events so far in Paris (team, individual all-around, vault). She will compete in two more events at these Games in floor and beam on Monday, Aug. 5.

Andrade earned her fifth career Olympic medal, which ties her for the most Olympic medals won by an athlete from Brazil. She is also expected to compete in uneven bars, beam and floor.

Carey earned her first Olympic medal on vault in her second Olympic vault final. The vault was her last event of the Games.

Results: Women's vault

🥇 Simone Biles (USA)
🥈 Rebeca Andrade (BRA)
🥉 Jade Carey (USA)

RESULTS

On the men's side, Stephen Nedoroscik earned bronze in the men's pommel horse final. Nedoroscik wins the eighth all-time medal for the U.S. on the pommel horse. The last U.S. Olympic medal came in 2016 when Alex Naddour also won bronze.

Nedoroscik played a crucial role in helping the U.S. men's team win its first Olympic medal in 16 years.

Results: Men's pommel horse

🥇 Rhys McClenaghan (IRL)
🥈 Nariman Kurbanov (KAZ)
🥉 Stephen Nedoroscik (USA)

RESULTS

Trinity Rodman nailed a stunning goal in extra time to give the U.S. women's soccer team a dramatic 1-0 win over Japan in the quarterfinals.

In the 105th minute, Rodman took on a defender before cutting to her left foot to curl the ball into the top left corner of the goal. Rodman is the youngest player in USWNT history to score a goal in an Olympic knockout match.

With the win, the USWNT stays undefeated in the tournament, having won all three of its group-play matches and scoring a tournament-high nine goals.

The U.S. women's soccer team will face Germany in the semifinals on Tuesday, Aug. 6.

MATCH STATS

Austin Krajicek and Rajeev Ram won silver in the men's doubles final. Krajicek/Ram took the first one in an 8-6 tiebreaker. Matthew Ebden/John Peers answered in the second set tiebreaker, 7-1, to force a match-deciding 10-point tiebreaker. After Australia built an advantage, Krajicek/Ram  trimmed the deficit to one. But Ebden/Peers secured the winner with a volley that split the American pair down the middle.

Krajicek/Ram’s finish is the highest in U.S. men’s doubles since 2012 when Mike and Bob Bryan won gold.

Fritz/Paul won the bronze medal match in straight sets, 6-3, 6-4. 

This is the first time the U.S. has won multiple Olympic medals in men's doubles since 1904 when they swept the podium.

Results: Men's doubles

🥇 Matthew Ebden/John Peers (AUS)
🥈 Austin Krajicek/Rajeev Ram (USA)
🥉 Taylor Fritz/Tommy Paul (USA)

MATCH STATS for Krajicek/Ram

MATCH STATS for Fritz/Paul

American Vincent Hancock made history when he won the men's skeet competition on Saturday. Fellow American Conner Prince earned silver.

Hancock becomes the sixth Olympian and fourth American to win four gold medals in the same individual event. He also won this event in 2008, 2012 and 2020.

This is the first time since 1976 that the U.S. has won both gold an silver in the same shooting event.

Hancock coaches the silver-medalist Prince. When speaking about the experience of making his Olympic debut alongside his mentor, Prince said, "[The Olympics] only happens once every four years, and the fact that me and my coach get to go over there and experience it together is quite an honor."

These medals are the second and third shooting medals for the U.S. at these Games. Hancock becomes the first American man to win an individual gold medal at these Olympic Games.

Results: Men's skeet

🥇 Vincent Hancock (USA)
🥈 Conner Prince (USA)
🥉 Lee Meng Yuan (TPE)

RESULTS

In her final swim of the 2024 Paris Olympic Games, Katie Ledecky won the women's 800m freestyle, repeating a feat she accomplished at London 2012, Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020. She became the first woman ever, and the second swimmer ever behind Michael Phelps, to four-peat in an individual Olympic event.

The gold medal is Ledecky's ninth of her career, breaking a tie she held briefly with fellow American Jenny Thompson and giving her the most gold medals of any American woman, in any sport.

Australian star Ariarne Titmus stayed within a body length of Ledecky for nearly all 16 laps. Eventually, Ledecky touched first in 8:11.04, with Titmus 1.25 seconds behind in the silver position.

Team USA’s Paige Madden took bronze, her first individual Olympic medal.

Results: Women's 800m freestyle

🥇 Katie Ledecky (USA)
🥈 Ariarne Titmus (AUS)
🥉 Paige Madden (USA)

The United States struck gold in the mixed 4x100m medley relay in world record time at the Paris Olympics on Saturday. 

Ryan Murphy swam the opening leg for the United States, with Nic Fink and Gretchen Walsh following before Torri Huske made sure of the gold.

Regan Smith, Charlie Swanson, Caeleb Dressel and Abbey Weitzeil had all swum in the preliminary on Friday to secure the place in the final and were also rewarded for their efforts.

China took the silver and Australia the bronze.

Results: Mixed 4x100m medley relay

🥇 United States
🥈 China
🥉 Australia

• Zheng Qinwen became the first Chinese player, man or woman, to win an Olympic singles gold medal in tennis when she prevailed in the women’s singles final over Croatia’s Donna Vekic on Saturday, 6-2, 6-3.
• The U.S. women's 3x3 basketball team faced China, not just once but twice, with the second duel occurring in the play-in game. Team USA was victorious in both games and will compete in the semifinals on Monday, Aug. 5.
• Team USA earned bronze in the rowing men's eight, which is the first U.S. medal in this event since 2008. The U.S. also earned its 17th medal ever in this event, which is the most of any nation.
• The U.S. men's basketball team beat Team Puerto Rico, 104-83. Anthony Edwards scored 26 points, going 11-of-15 on the night at Stade Pierre-Mauroy. 
• United States beach volleyball duo Chase Budinger and Miles Evans advanced to the Round of 16, after they defeated Aussies Zachery Schubert and Thomas Hodges in a "Lucky Loser" match. 
• Italy's Lorenzo Musetti muscled past Canada's Felix Auger-Aliassime, 6-4, 1-6, 6-3, to take home the men's singles bronze medal at the 2024 Olympic tennis tournament.
• The U.S. men's water polo team advanced to the quarterfinals following a 12-7 win over Montenegro.

COMPLETE STANDINGS

Team USA superstars Simone Biles, Katie Ledecky, Ryan Crouser and Vincent Hancock all won gold medals on Saturday along with the U.S. mixed 4x100m medley swim team. 

Through Day 8 of the 2024 Games, 63 delegations have won at least one medal. Other notable moments from Saturday's action include Saint Lucia earning its first-ever medal, a gold in the women's 100m track & field event (Julien Alfred); and a gold medal in women's triple jump (Thea LaFond-Gadson) marking Dominica's first-ever Olympic medal.