These athletes joined an elite club – or started a new one altogether – with their performances in Paris.

Here are some of the top record-breakers from the 2024 Paris Olympics.

Women’s gymnastics: Simone Biles is now the most decorated U.S. gymnast in Olympic history. Her four medals in Paris (team gold, all-around gold, vault gold, floor silver) brought her to 11 total medals, seven of which are gold. Before Paris, Shannon Miller owned that honor for 28 years with seven Olympic medals.

Men’s swimming: French swimmer Leon Marchand was one of the brightest stars of the Paris Olympics. He won gold in all four of his individual events (400m IM, 200m butterfly, 200m breaststroke, 200m IM) and set Olympic records in each of those wins. With his four individual golds, Marchand joins Michael Phelps (U.S.), Mark Spitz (U.S.) and Kristen Otto (East Germany) as the only Olympic swimmers to go four-for-four in an Olympic Games. Bonus: He won gold as part of France's 4x100 medley relay, too.

Women’s track and field: Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone zoomed past the competition in the 400m hurdles en route to a gold and a world record. Her 50.37 in the final beat her previous world record of 50.65 set at U.S. Trials in June and put her 1.5 seconds ahead of teammate Anna Cockrell in silver. McLaughlin-Levrone coming out of the final turn is simply unbeatable.

Men’s basketball: Kevin Durant became the U.S.’s all-time leading Olympic scorer. In Team USA’s quarterfinal win over Brazil, Durant’s 11 points pushed him past four-time Olympic gold medalist Lisa Leslie, who scored 488 points in her Olympic career. After the win, he called Leslie “the gold standard in basketball.” Durant, 35, leaves Paris with 518 career points and four gold medals, the most for a men's basketball player in Olympic history.

Men’s Tennis: Serbian star Novak Djokovic completed the Golden Slam, tennis’ Grand Slam + an Olympic gold. Djokovic beat Spain’s Carlos Alcaraz in an evenly matched gold medal final and, after his forehand winner, collapsed to the clay in tears. Djokovic joins four others in the Golden Slam club: Serena Williams (U.S.), Rafael Nadal (Spain), Andre Agassi (U.S.) and Steffi Graf (Germany).

Track and field: The U.S. mixed 4x400 relay team (Vernon Norwood, Shamier Little, Bryce Deadmon, Kaylyn Brown) got the world’s attention on the first full day of track and field events with a world record … in prelims! They ran a 3:07.41, nearly three full seconds ahead of the next finisher in their heat. On the final turn, the U.S. was in position to win gold in the Aug. 3 final, but Femke Bol of the Netherlands overtook Brown in the final few steps of the race, pushing the U.S. to silver.

Women’s swimming: Katie Ledecky won four medals in Paris (two gold, one silver, one bronze), bringing her career medal count to 14 over four Olympic Games. Ledecky leaves Paris as the most decorated female swimmer in Olympic history and the most decorated female Olympian of all time from the United States.

Men’s track and field: Sweden’s Mondo Duplantis grabbed gold, an Olympic record and a world record – in three different jumps. The pole vaulter won gold as warmup, clearing 6m (19.7 feet) to edge out American Sam Kendricks. Duplantis moved on to 6.10m (20 feet) – a height he first tackled in 2023 – and nailed that Olympic record on the first try. Then came the finale. On his third attempt at 6.25m (20.5 feet), with 100,000 fans at Stade de Paris focused on him, Duplantis broke his own pole vault world record for the ninth time in his career.

Men’s gymnastics: Before the Paris Olympics, the Philippines had one gold medal in the nation’s Olympic history. Men’s gymnast Carlos Yulo tripled that number in Paris with individual golds in the floor and vault finals on back-to-back days. He’s about to be living like a king for it, too. 

Men’s swimming: The U.S. men's swimmers were in an unfamiliar position when Bobby Finke stepped onto his starting block to race the 1500m free on the final night of Olympic swim events: none of them had won individual gold yet. Finke ended that drought with a bang, breaking an Olympic and world record that had stood since the 2012 London Olympics, and preserving the United States' streak of individual men's swimming golds that dates back to 1904.