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Julien Alfred sprinted the 100-meter race and won Saint Lucia's first gold medal in any discipline.
The women of New Zealand's rugby team scored 55 points in their quarter-final match against China, the most in an Olympic match since Australia scored 53 in 2016.
Chinese sport shooter Sheng Lihao scored 252.2, eclipsing American shooter Shaner William's 251.6 from Tokyo 2021.
Australian rugby player Maddison Levi scored 11 tries throughout the team's semi-final match, surpassing the previous record of 10 in a single Olympic game.
Ugandan long-distance runner Joshua Cheptegei won his second Olympic gold with an Olympic record time of 26:43.14.
Oh Ye-jin brought home the gold for South Korea with a record score of 243.2, beating Russian shooter Vitalina Batsarashkina's 240.3 in Tokyo.
Regan Smith, Lilly King, Gretchen Walsh, and Torri Huske won gold with a world record time in the 4x100-meter medley relay, finishing in 3:49.63. Walsh and Huske also broke a world record with Ryan Murphy and Nic Fink in the mixed 4x100-meter relay with a time of 3:37.43.
Switzerland's Chiara Leone earned her first gold medal with a record-breaking score of 464.4 in the 50-meter rifle final. The previous record-holder was compatriot Nina Christen, who scored 463.9 in Tokyo.
Thea LaFond won Dominica's first-ever gold medal in the triple jump, with a distance of 15.02 meters.
Mollie O'Callaghan, Shayna Jack, Emma McKeon, and Meg Harris finished with a time of 3:28.92 at the 4x100-meter freestyle relay, breaking their 2020 Olympic record of 3:29.69. O'Callaghan later returned with Lani Pallister, Brianna Throssell, and Ariarne Titmus for the 4x200-meter relay, and finished in 7:38.08, breaking China's record from the previous Games.
Adriana Ruano won Guatemala's first-ever gold medal in women's trap shooting and set a record at the same time, scoring 45 out of 50.
British shooter Nathan Hales smashed the Olympic record with a gold-medal score of 48. Czech shooters Jiří Lipták and David Kostelecký previously held the record jointly when they tied with a score of 43 in Tokyo.
German rower Oliver Zeidler completed his semifinal with an Olympic record time of 6:35.77, beating the previous best of 6:40.45 from Tokyo 2020.
Poland's Aleksandra Mirosław broke her own world record in the qualifying round of the women's speed climb, reaching the top in 6.06 seconds. She ended up winning a gold medal.
Chinese weightlifter Li Fabin defended his Tokyo gold in the event by setting a new record of 143kg.
Team USA's Cole Hocker stormed home in the final 400-meter stretch, winning gold and a new Olympic record of 3:27.65.
Jamaica's Roje Stona set a new Olympic record of 70 meters at the discus throw, shortly after competitor Mykolas Alekna of Lithuania passed his father's distance of 69.97 meters from 2004.
On July 30, Team USA became the first nation in Olympic history to surpass 3,000 medals across the Summer and Winter Games.
Sources: (People) (GQ)
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As a team, Katy Marchant, Emma Finucane, and Sophie Capewell finished in an impressive 45.186 seconds, beating the previous world record of 45.487.
Roy van den Berg, Harrie Lavreysen, and Jeffrey Hoogland completed the sprint in 41.279 seconds, beating their own previous Olympic record of 41.369 seconds in Tokyo.
With three gold and one silver medal wins in Paris, Simone Biles became the most decorated US gymnast in Olympic history, overtaking fellow Team USA gymnastics star Shannon Miller.
At the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, athletes across numerous disciplines are scoring at the highest level, and some are quite literally reaching heights never before seen.
From Gabriel Medina's gravity-defying performance in men's surfing to Léon Marchand beating Michael Phelps' 2008 record, click on to see all the athletes setting records at the 2024 Paris Olympic Games.
Team USA's Katie Ledecky claimed her second 1,500-meter freestyle gold medal with a time of 15:30.02, outpacing her own time from the 2020 Games. She has a total of nine Olympic gold medals.
With a jump of 6.25 meters, astounding the crowd and judges, Sweden's Armand Duplantis broke his own world record of 6.24m, making this his eighth time setting the world record for men's pole vault.
A four-time record breaker at the 2024 Olympics, French swimmer Léon Marchand also beat Michael Phelps' 2008 record with a time of 4:02.95 in the 400-meter individual medley.
Brazilian Gabriel Medina earned a near-perfect score of 9.90 during a heat, the highest Olympic score for a single wave.
Swedish swimmer Sarah Sjöström swam for a gold medal and broke her own Olympic record from Tokyo 2020, at a time of 23.66 seconds.
US swimmer Gretchen Walsh swam the 100-meter butterfly with a time of 55.37, 11 seconds faster than Sarah Sjöström's Rio 2016 time.
Chinese swimmer Pan Zhanle swam a 100-meter freestyle heat in record time, breaking the world record with a time of 46.40 seconds.
South Korean archer Lim Si-hyeon broke the world record in women's archery with a score of 694. She also claimed two more Olympic records, one with Kim Woo-jin in the mixed competition, and another with Jeon Hun-young and Nam Su-hyeon in the women's team event.
Australia's Kaylee McKeown recorded an Olympic best in the 100-meter backstroke, flying across the pool in 57.33 seconds. In the 200-meter backstroke, she also broke a 12-year-old record set by Missy Franklin at the London Games with a time of 2:03.73.
Canadian swimmer Summer McIntosh broke the 200-meter butterfly record in 2:03.03, surpassing Zhang Yufei of China's 2:03.86 from the Tokyo Games in 2021.
Team USA's Bobby Finke set a new world record in the men's 1,500-meter freestyle with a time of 14:30.67, outpacing Sun Yang of China's 14:31.02 from the London Games.
Ireland's Daniel Wiffen swam the 800-meter freestyle in 7:38.19, outpacing Ukrainian swimmer Mykhailo Romanchuk's Tokyo time of 7:41.28.
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At the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, athletes across numerous disciplines are scoring at the highest level, and some are quite literally reaching heights never before seen.
From Gabriel Medina's gravity-defying performance in men's surfing to Léon Marchand beating Michael Phelps' 2008 record, click on to see all the athletes setting records at the 2024 Paris Olympic Games.