Team USA Wins First Gold At 2024 Olympics

Team USA won its first gold medal at the 2024 Paris Olympics.

The USA took the gold in the 4×100 meter freestyle relay on Saturday.

The team was made up of Jack Alexy, Chris Guiliano, Hunter Armstrong, and Caeleb Dressel who finished 1 second before Australia’s team.

Italy finished in third to take the bronze.

Team USA wins first gold at 2024 Olympics in men’s 4×100-meter freestyle relay https://t.co/3Otzcip8ZF pic.twitter.com/ow3OlDmjxA

— New York Post (@nypost) July 27, 2024

GOLD FOR TEAM USA! 🥇US men win 4×100 meter freestyle relay with strong anchor leg by Caeleb Dressel, his 8th gold medal. https://t.co/V08d4K06Ox pic.twitter.com/oB5BS3hRim

— WFLA NEWS (@WFLA) July 27, 2024

Here’s what CBS reported:

The United States won its first gold medal at the Paris Olympics after a strong showing in the 4×100 meter freestyle relay on Saturday.

The team — made up of Jack Alexy, Chris Guiliano, Hunter Armstrong, and Caeleb Dressel — finished 1.07 seconds before the silver medal team, Australia. Italy won bronze.

Team USA has won gold in this event in 10 of the last 13 Olympics. It is also Dressel’s eighth Olympic gold.

GOLD FOR TEAM USA! Ohio State’s Hunter Armstrong swims a ridiculous 46.75 split in the 4×100 relay to helped lead them to a near world record time (.04 short of it) pic.twitter.com/o5IomkSkeu

— Matt Barnes (@Matt_NBC4) July 27, 2024

Per The New York Post:

Team USA is on the gold medal board.

It took until late in the day on Saturday, but in the last swimming race of Saturday night, the U.S. took its first gold medal of the 2024 Olympics, winning the 4×100-meter freestyle relay behind a foursome of Chris Guiliano, Jack Alexy, Hunter Armstrong and Caeleb Dressel.

The United States, at 3:09.28 finished a little over a second ahead of Australia, which took silver with a 3:10.35.

Italy finished third with a 3:10.70.