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Here's what you should know from Day 13 of competition at the 2024 Paris Olympic Games:

• Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone set the women's 400m hurdles world record for the sixth time and defended her Olympic title.
• Grant Holloway and Daniel Roberts of Team USA finished 1-2 in the men's 110m hurdles final.
• Kenny Bednarek and Noah Lyles won silver and bronze, respectively, in the men's 200m final behind Botswana's Letsile Tebogo.
• American Tara Davis-Woodhall took home the gold in women's long jump.
• The U.S. men's basketball team narrowly beat Serbia to clinch a spot in the gold medal game.
• Sam Watson set the speed climbing world record — again — and ended up with a bronze medal.
• The U.S. women's volleyball team secured a spot in the gold medal match with a win over Brazil.
• Morgane Metraux of Switzerland holds a one-stroke lead midway through the women's golf event.
• The Moroccan men's soccer team dominated Egypt, 6-0, to win its first-ever bronze medal in soccer.

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In the women's 400m hurdles final, Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone surged to a world record and the gold medal on Thursday in Paris. The feat marks the sixth time McLaughlin-Levrone has set a world record in the event. 

• 2021 U.S. Olympic Trials – 51.90 
• Tokyo Olympics – 51.46 
• 2022 U.S. Championships – 51.41 
• 2022 World Championships – 50.68 
• 2024 U.S. Olympic Trials – 50.65 
• Paris Olympics – 50.37

McLaughlin-Levrone has not lost a 400m hurdles race since Oct. 4, 2019, when she was 20 years old. The now 25-year-old has a winning streak of 22 races in a row, including heats.

“It’s amazing to see our sport continue to grow, for people to want to watch the 400m hurdles, it’s amazing," McLaughlin-Levrone said. "Just a lot of hard work put in this year. I knew it was going to be a tough race. An amazing competition all the way round.” 

Results: Women's 400m Hurdles

🥇 Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone (USA)
🥈 Anna Cockrell (USA)
🥉 Femke Bol (NED)

Team Botswana's Letsile Tebogo won the men's 200m final, claiming gold in 19.46 seconds. The win also signifies Botswana's first-ever Olympic gold medal and third Olympic medal of any color.

Tebogo beat out Americans Kenny Bednarek, Noah Lyles and Erriyon Knighton, who finished 2-3-4, matching their result at the Tokyo Games.

After winning the 100m, Lyles was poised to become the first American man since Carl Lewis in 1984 to complete the 100m-200m Olympic double gold. However on Thursday in Paris, Lyles' teammate Bednarek eclipsed him by 0.08 seconds for the silver medal. 

Results: Men's 200m

🥇 Letsile Tebogo (BOT)
🥈 Kenny Bednarek (USA)
🥉 Noah Lyles (USA)

American Tara Davis-Woodhall ended the second round in the lead and never gave it back throughout the six rounds of the women's long jump competition on Thursday in Paris. The gold marks Davis-Woodhall's first Olympic medal after finishing sixth at the Tokyo Games. 

Fellow Team USA athlete Jasmine Moore took home the bronze.

Results: Women's Long Jump 

🥇 Tara Davis-Woodhall (USA)
🥈 Malaika Mihambo (GER)
🥉 Jasmine Moore (USA)

American Grant Holloway has claimed his first Olympic gold medal, hurdling to an emphatic win in the Paris Olympic men’s 110m hurdles final on Thursday in a scorching 12.99 seconds.

The win comes three years after Holloway was stunningly defeated by Jamaican Hansle Parchment at the Tokyo Games.

Behind Holloway, U.S. teammate Daniel Roberts took silver in 13.09 seconds, edging bronze medalist Rasheed Broadbell of Jamaica in a photo finish for second.

Results: Men's 110m Hurdles

🥇 Grant Holloway (USA)
🥈 Daniel Roberts (USA)
🥉 Rasheed Broadbell (JAM)

The U.S. men's basketball team narrowly avoided an upset in Thursday's semifinal game against Serbia, winning 95-91 to clinch a spot in the gold medal game.

After trailing for most of the game, the U.S. outscored Serbia 32-15 in the fourth quarter to get the win.

Steph Curry scored 36 points on 12-of-19 shooting. LeBron James recorded his second-career Olympic triple double (16 points, 12 rebounds and 10 assists). 

The Americans are seeking their fifth straight gold medal in men's basketball. This sets up a repeat of the Tokyo 2020 men's basketball final where the U.S. beat France, 87-82. Earlier in the day, France beat Germany 73-69 in the other semifinal.

Sam Watson won bronze in the sport climbing men's speed event on Thursday. He beat Reza Alipour Shenazandifard in the bronze medal heat to win his first Olympic medal at just 18 years old. 

Watson entered the Olympics as the world record holder in the event with a time of 4.79 seconds. He initially broke his own record in the qualifying rounds before resetting the record again with a time of 4.74 seconds in the bronze heat.

Veddriq Leonardo and Wu Peng, who defeated Watson head-to-head in their semifinal heat, won gold and silver, respectively.

"I have no regrets," Watson said. "I don't think I made any mistake as far as the input I gave as an athlete. Speed climbing is a very low-margin-for-error sport and I was up against some incredible athletes. So no regrets, I'm really proud of [Wu and Leonardo], who advanced to the podium with me. Resetting another world record also means a lot."

RESULTS

Results: Men's Speed Climbing

🥇 Veddriq Leonardo (INA)
🥈 Wu Peng (CHN)
🥉 Sam Watson (USA)

The U.S. women's volleyball team defeated Brazil, 3-2, to advance to the gold medal match of the tournament. 

Team USA had defeated Brazil to win gold at the Tokyo Games three years ago, so Brazil was seeking revenge. But the U.S. women came together to secure the win.

The U.S. is now guaranteed its seventh medal, which ties the Soviet Union for the most by any country in Olympic women's volleyball.

MATCH STATS

Morgane Metraux turned heads at La Golf National with an Olympic-record 28 on the front nine Thursday. 

She had a few sloppy mistakes late and finished with a 66 but it was enough to take a one-shot lead over Ruoning Yin at the halfway point of the women's competition.

“It’s always fun to see yourself on top of the leaderboard,” Metraux said. 

Metraux was ranked 137th in the world and in danger of losing her LPGA card this season, but she has so far stepped up on the Olympic stage.

Defending gold medalist Nelly Korda is tied for 12th entering the weekend.

Leaderboard: Top 10 at Olympic women's golf event

FULL LEADERBOARD

1. Morgane Metraux (SUI): -8 (66) 
2. Ruoning Yin (CHN): -7 (65) 
3. Lydia Ko (NZL): -5 (67) 
T4. Mariajo Uribe (COL): -4 (70) 
T-4. Pia Babnik (SLO): -4 (66) 
T-6. Bianca Pagdanganan (PHI): -3 (69) 
T-6. Atthaya Thitikul (THA): -3 (69) 
T-6. Celine Boutier (FRA): -3 (76) 
T-6. Miyu Yamashita (JPN): -3 (70) 
T-6. Ashleigh Buhai (RSA): -3 (73) 
T-6. Xiyu Lin (CHN): -3 (70)

• Team USA women's water polo lost in the semifinals to Australia in a penalty shootout, ending its bid for a record fourth straight gold. The U.S. will play the Netherlands for bronze on Saturday, Aug. 10.
• Lara Vadlau and Lukas Mahr of Austria won gold in the mixed dinghy sailing event — in the first ever time that the event was contested at the Olympics.
• After today's mixed multihull event, 17 different nations have won a sailing medal at these Games. Men's kiteboarding is the only event still ongoing.
• Team Netherlands men's field hockey defeated Germany in the gold medal match after a shootout.
• After the men's 3m springboard diving event on Thursday morning, China has won gold in each of the six diving events that have been contested in Paris.
• The Moroccan men's soccer team dominated Egypt, 6-0, to win its first-ever bronze medal in soccer.
• American Spencer Lee advanced to Friday's gold medal match in men's freestyle 57kg wrestling. Helen Maroulis (women's 57kg) and Aaron Brooks (men's 86kg) will wrestle for bronze after losing their semifinal bouts.

COMPLETE STANDINGS

On Day 13 of competition, the United States won nine medals — three gold, three silver and three bronze. There were four events in which Team USA had two medalists on the podium: men's 200m, women's long jump, women's 400m hurdles and men's 110m hurdles.

The U.S. has now crossed the 100-medal threshold for the Paris Games. It also holds a slight edge over China (30-29) in the race for most gold medals.

The Refugee Olympic Team got on the board with its first medal of the Games on Thursday. Boxer Cindy Ngamba lost her semifinal bout, which officially gave her a bronze medal in the women's middleweight division