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Team USA Wins 1,000th Summer Olympics Gold Medal With Women’s Medley Relay!

The U.S. women’s 4×100-meter medley relay team – Simone Manuel, 20, Kathleen Baker, 19, Lilly King, 19, and Dana Vollmer, 28 – has won the USA’s 1,000th gold medal in Summer Olympics history at the 2016 Rio Summer Olympics!

Simone took home silver in the 50m freestyle earlier in the night, helping the team to win gold – their time was 3 minutes, 53.13 seconds.

Australia won the silver medal with a time of 3 minutes, 55 seconds, and Denmark won the bronze, finishing .01 seconds later.

The USA’s first summer gold was earned back in 1896.

Congrats, ladies!

U.S. Women's Swimming Team Wins Gold in 4x200m Relay!

The U.S. Women’s Swimming TeamAllison Schmitt, Dana Vollmer, Shannon Vreeland, and Missy Franklin – show off their gold medals after winning the Women’s 4x200m Freestyle Relay on Day 5 of the 2012 Summer Olympics on Wednesday (August 1) at the Aquatics Centre in London, England.

The ladies finished the relay in 7:42.92, which was a second and a half faster than the silver medal winner, Australia. The French team picked up the bronze medal.

PHOTOS: Check out the latest pics from the 2012 Summer Olympics

Earlier in the week, Missy and Allison both picked up individual gold medals for the Women’s 100 Backstroke and the Women’s 200m Freestyle, respectively.

30+ pictures inside of the U.S. Women’s Swimming Team at the Olympics… More Here! »

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