It was a roller coaster kind of night in Toronto, as three new Pan American Games records were balanced against two disqualifications. The DQ’s certainly skewed the medal table, which now sees the United States on top in terms of total number of medals. Brazil is tied with the U.S. for total number of golds at this point, each clinging to 6 with two full days of swimming left.
The Americans snagged four golds on the night – their best performance of these Games yet – with Giles Smith, Kelsi Worrell, and the women’s 4x200m free relay topping the competition. (Shout-out to Allison Schmitt for rocking a 1:55.98 split on that relay!) Caitlin Leverenz originally earned silver in tonight’s 400m IM race, but was awarded gold in light of Canadian Emily Overholt‘s disqualification. Had Overholt won, it would be Canada tied with Brazil for 6 golds leaving America with just 5.
Brazil also suffered a blow to its overall medal count, as Thiago Pereira suffered a DQ in the men’s edition of the 400m IM event, causing teammate Brandonn Almeida to move atop the podium. Instead of a Brazilian 1-2 finish, the country settled for just one gold, with the silver going to Canada’s Luke Reilly and bronze being awarded to America’s Max Williamson.
I’m proud of USA swimming team
USA takes the lead in medal count but based on the number of Gold won by the Canadian Team Canada is in first place.Go Canada
Hi Fred,
We use the golds, silvers, bronze methodology for rankings. The U.S. and Canada both have 6 golds, but the U.S. ranks ahead on this methodology based on silvers. We’ll leave it to our readers which way they want to rank things.
Us.will probably wins which races? Brazil will probably go for 50 free 100 breast men side men 200 im unless dq and.men medley. Maybe de Deus ou.brandonn can get something if Cochrane swims badly. US is favorite on which races?
Always so defensive about the Brazilians! It’s an American swimming website, so you know there’s going to be some bias. Besides, the US has much more of a history of pulling through and dominating in almost every single international swim meet EVER.