The most recent gold medal for the USA within the 2024 Paris Olympics is available in a sport the place Individuals haven’t gained all of it since 1960 in Rome.
USA Rowing, a males’s coxless 4 crew consisting of Liam Corrigan, Michael Grady, Nick Mead and Justin Finest, noticed their boat simply go New Zealand by 0.85 seconds within the males’s 4 remaining.
The U.S. completed with a time of 5:49.03, whereas New Zealand got here in simply behind at 5:49.88 to win silver. Nice Britain, with a time of 5:52.42, completed with bronze.
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Nick Mead, Justin Finest, Michael Grady and Liam Corrigan have a good time their gold medal within the males’s 4 throughout the Summer time Video games at Vaires-sur-Marne Nautical Stadium. (Sarah Phipps-USA Immediately Sports activities)
The final time the U.S. males gained gold on this occasion, it was Dan Ayrault, Ted Nash, John Sayre and Rusty Wailes crossing the end line first within the Rome Olympics in 1960.
That is additionally the primary time the U.S. has gained a medal in rowing for the reason that 2016 Rio de Janeiro Video games.
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The lads’s coxless 4 crew made the ultimate within the 2020 Toyko Olympics, however completed fifth.
Nick Mead, Justin Finest, Michael Grady and Liam Corrigan compete within the males’s 4 remaining A throughout the Olympic Video games at Vaires-sur-Marne Nautical Stadium. (Sarah Phipps-USA Immediately Sports activities)
Nonetheless, this group simply got here off a silver-medal worthy efficiency within the 2023 World Championship, so there was at all times hope heading to Paris that they might at the least break the eight-year medal drought.
However an ideal race for these 4 males led to the sixth gold at these Olympics for the USA.
The golds for the U.S. thus far come from the women’s gymnastics crew remaining, which is the third within the final 4 Olympics for this group, Katie Ledecky (1500-meter freestyle remaining), Torri Huske (100-meter butterfly remaining), Lee Kiefer (ladies’s foil particular person remaining), and the lads’s 4×100-meter freestyle relay remaining.
Nick Mead, Justin Finest, Michael Grady and Liam Corrigan have a good time with gold medals on the Paris Olympics. (Sebastian Kahnert/image alliance by way of Getty Pictures)
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There are numerous different alternatives for the USA to safe the valuable gold medal in Paris, however these rowers have etched themselves in historical past on the Video games after an excellent efficiency.
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