USA picked up six Gold Medals (sixteen total) on Day Seven of competition, and didn't gain any ground, at all, remaining firmly in fourth place in Gold Medals, and fifth overall.
Sam Grewe wins the men's high jump (Category T63: Lower Body impairment). Sam had most of his right leg amputated below the knee, after developing osteosarcoma as a teenager.
Breanna Clark wins the women's 400m (Category T20: Intellectual impairment), with a World Record 55.18s. Breanna was diagnosed with autism when she was four years old. Her mother won silver in the women's 4x400m relay at the Montreal Olympics. Breanna also won Gold at the Rio Paralympics.
Shawn Morelli wins the women's road cycling time trial (Category 4: Lower Body impairment, or low-level neurological impairment). Shawn was blinded in her left eye, and sustained permanent spine and brain trauma, after being hit by an IED, while serving in Afghanistan. This is Shawn's second medal at the Tokyo Paralympics, and she also previously won two Gold Medals in Rio.
Oksana Masters wins the women's road cycling time trial (Category H5: Lower Body impairment). Oksana was born in Khmelnytskyi, Ukraine, three years after the Chernobyl accident, and it is believed that the radioactive fallout from the accident played a role in Oksana being born with tibial hemimelia, as well as other birth defects. She has had both legs amputated above the knee. Oksana is a multiple-time Paralympic medalist, having previously won Gold at the Pyeongchang Paralympics, in 2018, and intends to defend her Gold Medals at the Beijing Paralympics, in 2022.
Morgan Stickney wins the women's 400m freestyle (Category S8: Lower Body impairment). Morgan had her left leg amputated below the knee, after developing a staph infection at 21 years old. She then had her right leg amputated below the knee, at 22 years old, after being diagnosed with a rare vascular disorder.
Mikaela Jenkins wins the women's 100m butterfly (Class S10: Lower Body impairment). Mikaela was born with proximal femoral focal deficiency, causing one leg to be significantly longer than the other. Her left foot was amputated, when she was eight months old.
United States picks up two Gold Medals (eight overall) on Day Nine, to remain in fourth place (fifth overall). Unless I'm reading the internet wrong, there appears to be fifty-one Gold Medals up for grabs today, and USA doesn't appear to be in contention for more than twenty-eight of them.
Jeremy Campbell wins the men's standing discus (Class F64: Lower Leg impairment). Jeremy was born without a fibula and ankle in his right leg.
United States wins the women's 4x100m medley relay (34 points combined). Participants in the event were:
Hannah Aspden (S9). This was Hannah's second Gold Medal in Tokyo.
Mikaela Jenkins (S9). This was Mikaela's second Gold Medal.
Jessica Long (S8). This was Jessica's fifth medal in Tokyo, and second Gold.
Morgan Stickney (S8). This was Morgan's second Gold Medal.
USA only won twelve medals on Day Ten, but seven of them were Gold, to move them into a tie for third in the Gold Medal count. They continue to be a somewhat distant fifth, overall:
Kevin Mather beats China's Lixue Zhao in Men's Individual Recurve Archery, Open Classification, in what I would consider to be the upset of the competition. Kevin, whose impairment classification is W2 (Lower Body impairment: wheelchair-bound) was paralyzed when he was hit by a truck, when he was twenty-seven years old.
Raymond Martin wins the men's 100m (Class T52: Spinal cord injuries). This is Raymond's third medal at the Tokyo Games, and first Gold Medal. Raymond was born with Freeman-Sheldon syndrome: he has no ability to move his legs, and has impaired range of motion in his arms.
United States wins the 4x100m Universal Relay, setting a new Paralympic World Record in the process. Participating racers were:
Noah Malone (Class T12: Visual impairment). This was Noah's third medal at the Tokyo Games, and his first Gold Medal. Noah was diagnosed with leber's heriditary optic neuropathy when he was fourteen, losing roughly half his vision within three months of diagnosis.
Nick Mayhugh (Class T37). This was Nick's third medal at the Tokyo Games, and second Gold Medal.
Brittni Mason (Class T46: Upper Body impairment). This was Brittni's second medal at the Tokyo Games, and first Gold Medal. Brittni was born with Erb's Palsy.
Tatyana McFadden (Class T54: Lower Body impairment). This was Tatyana's third medal at the Tokyo Games, and first Gold Medal. Tatyana was born with spina bifida, and abandoned outside an orphanage in St. Petersburg, Russia.
Elizabeth Marks wins the women's 100m backstroke (Class S6: Lower Body impairment). This is Elizabeth's third medal at the Tokyo Games, and first Gold Medal. Elizabeth Marks sustained injuries her left leg, while serving as an Army medic in Iraq in 2010, that eventually led to her left leg being amputated below the knee. Rather than accept a medical discharge, Sergeant First Class Marks underwent an arduous rehab, and recovered enough to be be declared fit for duty in 2012.
Robert Griswold wins the men's 100m butterfly (Class S8). This was Robert's second Gold Medal at the Tokyo Games.
Jessica Long wins the women's 100m butterfly (Class S8). This is Jessica's sixth medal at the Tokyo Games, and third Gold Medal.
Evan Austin wins the men's 50m Butterfly (Class S7: Lower Body impairment). This is Evan's second medal at the Tokyo Games, and first Gold Medal. Evan was born with familial spastic paraparesis, which affects his mobility in his lower body.
USA collects one Gold Medal (nine overall) on Day Eleven, to fall back into fourth place in the Gold Medal count, but they move ahead of Ukraine for fourth place overall. USA leads Ukraine by three in overall medal count, and Ukraine does not even have participants competing in three medal events on the final day of competition, so USA is locked into fourth place for the overall medal count.
Nick Mayhugh wins the men's 200m (Class T37), with a new Paralympic World Record. This is Nick's fourth medal at the Tokyo Games, and third Gold Medal.
There are fifteen Gold Medals up for grabs on the final day of the Tokyo Paralympics. USA only has a participant in contention for five of them. USA trails Russian Paralympic Committee by one Gold Medal: RPC is also in contention for five Gold Medals on Day Twelve. USA could finish as high as third place overall, and cannot finish worse than fourth.
United States wins two Gold Medals (three overall), on the final day of competition:
United States wins women's Sitting Volleyball.
United States wins men's Wheelchair Basketball.
USA finishes third in the Gold Medal count, with 37, and fourth overall, with 104. China finishes first in both, with 96 and 207, respectively. China finished with more Gold Medals than second or third place, combined; they had only two fewer Gold Medals than the fifth-place nation had in total medals. But USA kind of got to have the last word, somewhat, by beating China in their final head-to-head matchup, and the second-to-last event of the Paralympics, Sitting Volleyball.
