Saturday marked Team USA's most medals in 1 day in decades

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If it seemed like Team USA won a lot of medals on Saturday, that's because they did!

PARIS, France — The United States expanded its lead in the overall medal count on Saturday at the Paris Olympics with lots of appearances on the podium. 

Team USA won 17 medals on Saturday. That was its highest single-day Olympic medal total since Oct. 1, 1988 during the Seoul Olympics, according to the team

There were 27 medal events Saturday and the United States won at least one medal in 12 of those. 

As of the end of competition Saturday in Paris, the U.S. leads with 61 total medals, followed by France with 41 and China with 37. 

The U.S. does trail China in the gold medal leaderboard, with Americans having won 14 gold medals so far and Chinese Olympians winning 16. 

Here's a list of the Team USA medal winners on Saturday

Gymnastics 

Women's vault: Gold medal for Simone Biles and silver medal for Jade Carey

Men's pommel horse: Bronze medal for Stephen Nedoroscik 

Rowing

Men's Eight: Bronze medal for U.S. team

Swimming

Mixed 4x100 medley relay: Gold medal for U.S. team and world record

Women's 200M individual medley: Silver medal for American Kate Douglass

Women's 800M freestyle: Gold medal for Katie Ledecky and bronze medal for Paige Madden

Tennis

Men's doubles: Silver for Americans Austin Krajicek and Rajeev Ram and bronze for Americans Taylor Fritz and Tommy Paul. 

Track and field

Men's shotput: Gold for Ryan Crouser and silver for Joe Kovacs

Mixed 4x400M relay: Silver for United States team

Women's 100M: Silver for Sha'Carri Richardson and bronze for Melissa Jefferson 

Women's triple jump: Bronze for Jasmine Moore 

Shooting

Men's skeet: Gold medal for Vincent Hancock 

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