The U.S. team of April Ross and Alix Klineman won the women’s beach volleyball gold medal, beating Mariafe Artacho del Solar and Taliqua Clancy of Australia, who took silver. The Swiss team won bronze in a defeat of the Latvian team earlier in the day. Ross won silver in the 2012 London Olympics and bronze in Rio in 2016, while Klineman was a first-time Olympian.

The U.S women’s soccer team won the bronze medal, downing Australia 4-3. Megan Rapinoe and Carli Lloyd had two goals each, and Lloyd became the Olympics’ all-time leading female scorer with her second goal. Canada, the team the U.S. lost to in the semifinals, will play Sweden for the gold.

The U.S. women’s basketball team defeated Serbia 79-59 in their semifinal and will play for the gold medal. They’ll take on the winner of the semifinal between France and Japan, and will be trying to win the seventh straight Olympics gold for the U.S.

The U.S. women’s team will play for the volleyball gold medal after defeating Serbia 3-0 in their semifinal. They will play the winner of the semifinal between Brazil and South Korea.

The U.S. men’s track disappointments in Tokyo continued as the American runners didn’t make the medal stand in the 400 meters. Steven Gardiner of the Bahamas won gold, Colombia’s Anthony Jose Zambrano took silver and Kirani James of Granada won bronze. The highest-finishing American was Michael Cherry in fourth place, while teammate and Olympic Trials champion Michael Norman came in fifth.

MEDAL COUNT: (As of 3:30 a.m. ET) – The U.S. is in first place  with 92 medals, followed by China with 74 and the Russian Olympic Committee with 60. In the gold medal count, China leads with 34, the U.S. is second with 30, and Japan is third with 22.

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