Paris Olympics Day 13: U.S. team breaks 100-medal mark

The United States now has more golds and more overall medals than any other nation.

With three days left of competition, American athletes total 30 golds for 103 medals overall.

Here are some of Thursday’s standout performances:

Women’s volleyball

Karch Kiraly made one request when the decisive fifth set began: Win or lose, make sure to enjoy the moment.

The U.S. coach asked his players to take in the atmosphere, one of the best for women’s volleyball, with mighty Brazil on the opposite side of the net.

Now, Kiraly and the Americans will get another shot under the bright Olympic lights — a shot to repeat as gold medalists. And it took every extra hustle play by every American on the floor against the experienced Brazilians.

“It’s kind of sad that either team has to lose a match like that,” Kiraly said, “because both programs are legendary in terms of consistently high level of play in good tournaments like the Olympics and world championships.”

As Brazil’s fans waved flags, chanted and sang from every corner of South Paris Arena, the U.S. women edged their fellow world powerhouse in a five-set thriller on Thursday, a compelling rematch of their Tokyo final won in straight sets by the U.S.

That marked the Americans’ first Olympic title, and now they can make it two in a row.

Brazil got within 12-10 in the fifth before the U.S. held on for the victory, 25-23, 18-25, 25-15, 23-25, 15-11.

When Kathryn Plummer’s winning spike for her match-high 26th point closed it out, the Americans huddled together in a huge group hug and bounced on the court in celebration.

They will play in Sunday’s Olympic final against top-ranked Italy, which swept No. 3 Turkey in the late match. Brazil will go for bronze Saturday against Turkey.

Women’s water polo

The U.S. reign over women’s water polo ended on Thursday night, stopped by a flood of turnovers and a terrific defensive performance by Gabi Palm and Australia.

Palm denied Maddie Musselman in a penalty shootout and the Aussies returned to their glory days with a dramatic 14-13 victory in the semifinals of the Paris Olympics, ending the United States’ try for a fourth consecutive gold medal.

Australia won gold in the first women’s water polo tournament at the 2000 Sydney Games. It also took home bronze medals in 2008 and 2012. But it hadn’t been back to the Olympic podium since — until now.

“To be starting to etch our own way in history and to continue that legacy is so special,” Palm said.

Next up for Australia is Spain, which advanced with a 19-18 victory over the Netherlands in a penalty shootout. The gold-medal match is on Saturday at Paris La Defense Arena.

The U.S. led 5-2 at halftime and 8-6 early in the fourth quarter, but it struggled offensively for the second straight game. The Americans needed 17 saves by Ashleigh Johnson to slip by Hungary in a 5-4 victory in the quarterfinals.

Bothered by Australia’s superior size and length, the U.S. managed only three goals in the second half.

Diving

China claimed its sixth gold medal in diving at the Paris Games with defending champion Xie Siyi winning the 3-meter springboard.

The Chinese made it a podium 1-2 as Wang Zongyuan took the silver ahead of Mexico’s Osmar Olvera Ibarra.

Wang was in tears afterward.

He hadn’t lost a major diving competition in the event since finishing behind teammate Xie at the Tokyo Olympics. After that silver, Wang won three straight world championship titles.

Sport climbing

American Sam Watson left the Games with another world record to his name but didn’t get the gold medal.

The 18-year-old Watson broke sport climbing’s speed world record on Thursday for the second time at the Paris Games, but that came in the fight for bronze.

Veddriq Leonardo of Indonesia won gold in 4.75 seconds in the final.

Weightlifting

Maude Charron raised Canada’s flag at the opening ceremony for the Paris Games and lifted up another medal in weightlifting.

Charron took the silver medal in the 59-kilogram category to add to her gold in the 64-kilogram competition at the Tokyo Games.

Men’s soccer

Soccer-mad Morocco fans finally have an Olympic medal to celebrate after routing African rival Egypt 6-0 for the bronze.

Soufiane Rahimi scored twice and the Casablanca-born striker will surely become a household name back home after netting an impressive eight goals in the tournament.

Men’s field hockey

Duco Telgenkamp scored the golden goal in the shootout to give the Netherlands a 2-1 victory over Germany.

It was the Netherlands’ first gold in men’s hockey at the Olympics since 2000 and third in the country’s history.

Captain Harmanpreet Singh scored both goals as India beat Spain 2-1 for a second straight bronze.

Track cycling

Benjamin Thomas overcame a crash in the men’s omnium race to give France its 14th gold medal of the Paris Games.

Thomas held off Iúri Leitão, whose silver medal was only Portugal’s second medal so far — compared to 54 for the French.

Also, world champion Ellesse Andrews of New Zealand won the Olympic title in the women’s keirin.

Sailing

In the southern port city of Marseille, Lara Vadlau and Lukas Maehr of Austria won gold in a tight race in the mixed-gender dinghy.

The sport became a new sailing category at these Games.

Ellie Aldridge of Britain won gold after two close finals races in women’s kitesurfing, the new, fastest sport at the Summer Olympics.

Current world champion Lauriane Nolot of France won silver, and Annelous Lammerts of the Netherlands took bronze.

THURSDAY’S MEDALISTS

ATHLETICS

Men’s 110m Hurdles

GOLD: Grant Holloway, United States

SILVER: Daniel Roberts, United States

BRONZE: Rasheed Broadbell, Jamaica

Men’s 200m

GOLD: Letsile Tebogo, Botswana

SILVER: Kenneth Bednarek, United States

BRONZE: Noah Lyles, United States

Men’s Javelin Throw

GOLD: Arshad Nadeem, Pakistan

SILVER: Neeraj Chopra, India

BRONZE: Anderson Peters, Grenada

Women’s 400m Hurdles

GOLD: Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone, United States

SILVER: Anna Cockrell, United States

BRONZE: Femke Bol, Netherlands

Women’s Long Jump

GOLD: Tara Davis-Woodhall, United States

SILVER: Malaika Mihambo, Germany

BRONZE: Jasmine Moore, United States

BOXING

Men’s 51kg

GOLD: Hasanboy Dusmatov, Uzbekistan

SILVER: Billal Bennama, France

BRONZE: David de Pina, Cape Verde

BRONZE: Yunior Alcantara Reyes, Dominican Republic

Women’s 54kg

GOLD: Yuan Chang, China

SILVER: Hatice Akbas, Turkey

BRONZE: Cholmi Pang, North Korea

BRONZE: Aeji Im, South Korea

SPORT CLIMBING

Men’s Speed

GOLD: Veddriq Leonardo, Indonesia

SILVER: Peng Wu, China

BRONZE: Sam Watson, United States

CANOE SPRINT

Men’s Canoe Double 500m

GOLD: China (Hao Liu, Bowen Ji)

SILVER: Italy (Gabriele Casadei, Carlo Tacchini)

BRONZE: Spain (Joan Antoni Moreno, Diego Dominguez)

Men’s Kayak Four 500m

GOLD: Germany (Max Rendschmidt, Max Lemke, Jacob Schopf, Tom Liebscher-Lucz)

SILVER: Australia (Riley Fitzsimmons, Pierre van der Westhuyzen, Jackson Collins, Noah Havard)

BRONZE: Spain (Saul Craviotto, Carlos Arevalo, Marcus Cooper, Rodrigo Germade)

Women’s Kayak Four 500m

GOLD: New Zealand (Lisa Carrington, Alicia Hoskin, Olivia Brett, Tara Vaughan)

SILVER: Germany (Paulina Paszek, Jule Marie Hake, Pauline Jagsch, Sarah Bruessler)

BRONZE: Hungary (Noemi Pupp, Sara Fojt, Tamara Csipes, Alida Dora Gazso)

CYCLING TRACK

Men’s Omnium

GOLD: Benjamin Thomas, France

SILVER: Iuri Leitao, Portugal

BRONZE: Fabio van den Bossche, Belgium

Women’s Keirin

GOLD: Ellesse Andrews, New Zealand

SILVER: Hetty van de Wouw, Netherlands

BRONZE: Emma Finucane, Britain

DIVING

Men’s 3m Springboard

GOLD: Siyi Xie, China

SILVER: Zongyuan Wang, China

BRONZE: Osmar Olvera Ibarra, Mexico

FIELD HOCKEY

Men

GOLD: Netherlands (Jip Janssen, Lars Balk, Jonas de Geus, Thijs van Dam, Thierry Brinkman, Seve van Ass, Jorrit Jan Willem Croon, Justen Blok, Derck de Vilder, Floris Wortelboer, Tjep Hoedemakers, Koen Bijen, Joep de Mol, Steijn van Heijningen, Pirmin Blaak, Tijmen Reyenga, Duco Telgenkamp, Floris Middendorp)

SILVER: Germany (Mathias Mueller, Mats Grambusch, Lukas Windfeder, Niklas Wellen, Johannes Grosse, Thies Prinz, Paul-Philipp Kaufmann, Teo Hinrichs, Tom Grambusch, Gonzalo Peillat, Christopher Ruehr, Justus Weigand, Marco Miltkau, Martin Zwicker, Hannes Mueller, Malte Hellwig, Moritz Ludwig, Jean-Paul Danneberg)

BRONZE: India (Jarmanpreet Singh, Abhishek Abhishek, Manpreet Singh, Hardik Singh, Gurjant Singh, Sanjay Sanjay, Mandeep Singh, Harmanpreet Singh, Lalit Kumar Upadhyay, Sreejesh Parattu Raveendran, Sumit Sumit, Shamsher Singh, Raj Kumar Pal, Amit Rohidas, Vivek Sagar Prasad, Sukhjeet Singh)

MARATHON SWIMMING

Women’s 10km

GOLD: Sharon van Rouwendaal, Netherlands

SILVER: Moesha Johnson, Australia

BRONZE: Ginevra Taddeucci, Italy

SAILING

Women’s Kite

GOLD: Eleanor Aldridge, Britain

SILVER: Lauriane Nolot, France

BRONZE: Annelous Lammerts, Netherlands

Mixed Dinghy

GOLD: Austria (Lara Vadlau, Lukas Maehr)

SILVER: Japan (Keiju Okada, Miho Yoshioka)

BRONZE: Sweden (Anton Dahlberg, Lovisa Karlsson)

Mixed Multihull

GOLD: Italy (Ruggero Tita, Caterina Marianna Banti)

SILVER: Argentina (Mateo Majdalani, Eugenia Bosco)

BRONZE: New Zealand (Micah Wilkinson, Erica Dawson)

TAEKWONDO

Men -68kg

GOLD: Ulugbek Rashitov, Uzbekistan

SILVER: Zaid Kareem, Jordan

BRONZE: Edival Pontes, Brazil

BRONZE: Yushuai Liang, China

Women -57kg

GOLD: Yujin Kim, South Korea

SILVER: Nahid Kiyanichandeh, Iran

BRONZE: Alizadeh Kimia, Bulgaria

BRONZE: Skylar Park, Canada

WEIGHTLIFTING

Men’s 73kg

GOLD: Rizki Juniansyah, Indonesia

SILVER: Weeraphon Wichuma, Thailand

BRONZE: Bozhidar Dimitrov Andreev, Bulgaria

Women’s 59kg

GOLD: Shifang Luo, China

SILVER: Maude Charron, Canada

BRONZE: Hsing-Chun Kuo, Taiwan

WRESTLING

Men’s Greco-Roman 67kg

GOLD: Saeid Esmaeili Leivesi, Iran

SILVER: Parviz Nasibov, Ukraine

BRONZE: Hasrat Jafarov, Azerbaijan

BRONZE: Luis Alberto Orta Sanchez, Cuba

Men’s Greco-Roman 87kg

GOLD: Semen Sergeevich Novikov, Bulgaria

SILVER: Alireza Mohmadipiani, Iran

BRONZE: Zhan Beleniuk, Ukraine

BRONZE: Turpal Ali Bisultanov, Denmark

Women’s Freestyle 53kg

GOLD: Akari Fujinami, Japan

SILVER: Lucia Yamileth Yepez Guzman, Ecuador

BRONZE: Hyo Gyong Choe, North Korea

BRONZE: Qianyu Pang, China