Kate Douglass Wins Gold in 200-Meter Breaststroke as Team USA Adds 3 Swimming Medals to Total

Along with Douglass, Regan Smith finished second in the 200-meter butterfly final, and the U.S. women's 4x200-meter freestyle relay team earned silver

Even more for Team USA!

Kate Douglass won big on Thursday, Aug. 1 with a first-place finish in the 200-meter breaststroke final — and set an American record in the process.

The 22-year-old swam a 2:19.24, finishing .36 seconds ahead of second-place Tatjana Smith of South Africa. Tes Schouten of the Netherlands earned bronze. Team USA's Lilly King, who won a silver medal in the event at the 2020 Tokyo Games, finished eighth this year.

Just before Douglass' gold-medal swim, American Regan Smith won silver in the 200-meter butterfly, behind Canada's young phenom Summer McIntosh, who set an Olympic record with her time of 2:03.03. Team USA's Alex Shackell finished sixth in the event.

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Finally, the U.S. relay team won silver in the women's 4x200m freestyle relay, adding to Katie Ledecky's medal count and officially making her the most-decorated female swimmer in U.S. history. Ledecky swam the third relay leg, nearly bringing the U.S. even with eventual winners Australia, along with Claire Weinstein, Paige Madden and Erin Gemmell.

Douglass and Smith's two medals, along with the relay team's silver, bring Team USA's medal total in swimming up to 20 at the Paris Olympics, and Douglass' gold is the team's fourth in the sport.

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Smith adds the silver medal to the other silver she won in the 100-meter backstroke on July 30 at La Defense — just over a month after she set the world record at U.S. Olympic Swim Trials.

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After winning her first 2024 silver, she told reporters, including PEOPLE, "I'm really proud of myself."

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