Medal Count 2024 Olympics: Updated Standings, Highlights After Day 15
The penultimate day of the 2024 Paris Olympics brought a heavy dose of Team USA victories.
Led by a pair of 4x400 relay triumphs on the track, the United States collected three gold medals on Day 15. U.S. hurdler Masai Russell leaned, quite literally, to her dramatic individual title, as well.
And after USA basketball beat France on Saturday night in Paris, another gold was added to the tally.
The action-packed schedule also included Nikola Jokic's final Olympic outing of 2024, along with American medalists in events such as breaking, canoe, climbing and high jump.
Updated Medal Standings and Events
Medal Count
1. United States (122 total medals, 38 gold)
2. China (90 total medals, 39 gold)
3. Great Britain (63 total medals, 14 gold)
4. France (62 total medals, 16 gold)
5. Australia (50 total medals, 18 gold)
Full medal standings at NBCOlympics.com.
Remaining Saturday Medal Events
Men's Beach Volleyball Gold Medal Match: Ahman/Hellvig (Sweden) vs. Ehlers/Wickler (Germany)
Women's Boxing (75kg) Final
Men's Boxing (+92kg) Final
Jokic, Serbia Take Bronze
Host nation France hoped to prevent the United States from continuing its basketball reign. Serbia had that opportunity in the semifinals but came up painfully short in a 95-91 loss.
Nikola Jokic and his team are leaving with a medal, though.
While teammate Vasilije Magic also scored 19 points, Jokic notched a triple-double with 19 points, 12 rebounds and 11 assists. They powered a 93-83 victory over Germany to win bronze, securing Serbia's second Olympic medal in the last three cycles.
As a bonus for Serbia, the triumph provided a little redemption after falling to Germany in the 2023 FIBA World Cup Final.
USWNT Finishes the Job
Given the history of the program, saying the United States women's national team arrived with no expectation isn't totally true.
The last few major tournament haven't gone well, though. The federation moved on from Vlatko Andonovski last August and hired Emma Hayes in November, but the Chelsea boss didn't officially take control of the USWNT until a couple of months ago.
Could a new-look program gel in time for Paris?
We learned, as the U.S. defeated Brazil in a nerve-testing 1-0 match, that answer was an undeniable yes. Mallory Swanson buried a 57th-minute goal, propelling the national team to its first Olympic gold since 2012.
It's safe to say Hayes and the USWNT will enter the 2027 World Cup—which Brazil hosts, by the way—with championship expectations.
Russell's Gold Highlights U.S. Track Medals
Incredible. Simply incredible.
As three U.S. women made the 100m hurdles final, Masai Russell brought home a gold medal for Team USA. It was, without question, one of the most exciting races of the Olympics.
Russell leaned her torso across the line at 12.33 seconds, a literal hundredth ahead of France's Cyrena Samba-Mayela's 12.34. Also in the photo finish was defending gold medalist Jasmine Camacho-Quinn, who posted a 12.36 time to claim a bronze for Puerto Rico.
After the finish, the trio waited for the in-state leaderboard to show the winner. Russell then burst into celebration.
Later on, the United States swept the 4x400 relays.
Rai Benjamin held off Botswana's Letsile Tebogo, the 200m champion, for a gold in Olympic-record time. That triumph also meant 16-year-old Quincy Wilson, who ran in the qualifying race, is a gold medalist with Chris Bailey, Vernon Norwood, Bryce Deadmon and Benjamin.
Then, the U.S. women dominated.
Shamier Little put Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone in position to blow the race open before Gabby Thomas and Alexis Holmes cruised to gold.