What Challenges Await Team USA On Day 15 Of The Paris Olympics?

Noah Lyles was in for a shocker in the 200m final at the Paris Olympics as Botswana’s Letsile Tebogo secured the gold medal in the race!

Lyles’ compatriot, Kenny Bednareck, finished in the silver medal position, leaving the 27-year-old standing in the bronze medal position. The result ended Lyles’ push to become the greatest sprinter of all time as he wanted to secure four gold medals in Paris.

Tara Davis-Woodhall added to America’s gold medal tally by winning the women’s long jump final event. With a jump of 7.10m, she leaped to the top of the leaderboard, with Germany’s Malaika Mihambo finishing second with a jump of 6.98m.

Thanks to this result, athletics became the most successful discipline for Team USA in Paris with nine gold medals.

Underwhelming performance from the men’s swimming team meant the discipline only brought a total of eight gold medals while fetching 20 additional medals.

Heading into the penultimate day of proceeding in Paris, several more medals might be heading America’s way, especially in the Athletics discipline. Thus, given below is the full breakdown of the challenges that await the American athletes on Day 15 of the Paris Olympics.

Day 15 Schedule of the Paris Olympics – August 10

All times are mentioned in EDT/EST.

Modern Pentathlon – 3:30 AM

Women’s Individual, Semi-final A, Fencing Bonus Round

Jessica Savner

Taekwondo – 3:21 AM

Men +80kg Round of 16

Jonathan Healy

V/S

Song Zhaoxiang

Sport Climbing – 4:15 AM

Women’s Boulder & Lead, Final Boulder

Brooke Raboutou

Water Polo – 4:35 AM

Women’s Bronze Medal Match

United States

V/S

Netherlands

Weightlifting – 5:30 AM

Men’s 102kg

Wes Kitts

Sport Climbing – 6:35 AM

Women’s Boulder & Lead, Final Lead

Brooke Raboutou

Breaking – 10:00 AM onwards

B-Boys Round Robin – Group A

Shigekix

V/S

Victor

B-Boys Round Robin – Group C

Jeffro

V/S

Lagaet

B-Boys Round Robin – Group A

Victor

V/S

Lithe-Ing

B-Boys Round Robin – Group C (#13)

Jeffro

V/S

Lee

B-Boys Round Robin – Group A

Hiro

V/S

Victor

B-Boys Round Robin – Group C

Hongten

V/S

Jeffro

Soccer – 11:00 AM

Women’s Gold Medal Match

Brazil

V/S

United States

Athletics – 1:00 PM

Men’s High Jump Final

Shelby McEwen

Artistic Swimming – 1:30 PM

Duet Free Routine

United States

Athletics – 1:50 PM

Men’s 5000m Final

Grant Fisher

Graham Blanks

Athletics – 2:15 Pm

Women’s 1500m Final

Nikki Hiltz

Elle St. Pierre

End of Olympic Day 15.

Post Edited By: Naman Gopal Srivastava

Paris Olympics 2024

About the author

Naman Gopal Srivastava

Naman is an F1 writer at The SportsRush. Initially a football fanatic who worships Puyol and Leo Messi, Naman soon fell in love with the world of F1 upon reading about Jim Clarke. While the current era drivers do fascinate him, Naman still chooses to idolize Clarke and Ayrton Senna. When he is not busy watching the highlights of some of the greatest races of his idols, Naman can be found scribbling little snippets in his diary of poems or out in the town, exploring new places to eat.

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