PARIS – It was another busy day at the Paralympics for the United States, which included some team wins and the addition of a few medals.

Matt Stutzman and Kevin Polish both came out victorious in the round of 16 for men’s individual compound archery. Stutzman took down Mexico’s Victor Sardina Viveros Victor by a score of 142-136. Polish’s affair was a nail-biter. He defeated Fernando Gale Montorio of Spain by just two arrows, 142-140.

In Tennis’ first round of men’s singles, Conner Stroud won in two sets against Jose Pablo Gil of Costa Rica. The 24-year-old won the two sets 6-3 and 6-1, respectively. Women’s doubles duo, Dana Mathewson and Maylee Phelps had their match against Japan rescheduled.

It was a busy day in athletics; the United States picked up a silver medal thanks to Korban Best’s personal best 10.75-second performance in the Men’s 100-meter T47. The U.S. also had three more runners qualify for future gold medal opportunities during the morning session: Noah Malone, Susannah Scaroni and Jenna Fesermeyer. Malone was especially dominant, clocking the fastest time among all three heats.

“World records, gold medal, that’s what I came here to do,” said Malone. “Tomorrow night, yeah, I’m going to put on a show.”

USA women’s wheelchair basketball had a dominant start to pool play, hammering Germany 73-44. Rose Hollerman led the charge with a team-high in points with 16 on better than 60% shooting.

“Our biggest thing was to play together and play like we practice. I think when you get into these moments, it’s easy to feel like you have to do more because it’s a big stage. We knew we didn’t have to do more than we do at practice,” remarked second-time Paralympian Josie Alaskon.

In Goal Ball, the U.S. fell to defending champion Brazil by a score of 13-8. The game was once tied 7-7, but Brazil’s 6-1 run in the 2nd quarter sealed the game. Calahan Young led the United States with six goals.

In another team sport, the U.S. fell to Japan 45-42 to drop its pool play record to 1-1. Chuck Aoki continued to lead the offense for the United States with 19 tries. The four-time Paralympian has 40 tries through the USA’s first three games. 

They were more composed than us. Every time we had a chance to creep back in it, we had a mental error. Credit to Japan, they played great, but we just cracked under the pressure today. It’s a good lesson for us,” said Aoki.

It was up and down day for USA badminton. In women’s singles, Jayci Simon fell in two sets to Shuangbao Lin, Simon didn’t score more than 12 points in either match. In mixed doubles, the duo of Simon and Miles Krajewski fell to Thailand and dropped to 1-1 in group play. Krajewski, though, did get a victory against Krishna Nagar with wins in two close games.

“It feels amazing, just because I’ve always wanted to be one,” said Krajewski. “Finally being one on this stage, it means a lot that I finally accomplished my dream.

The biggest triumph of the day came in the pool, The U.S. added three medals to its count, including its first gold of the Paralympics. The silvers came in the mixed 4x50m freestyle, with the group of Leanne Smith, Abbas Karimi, Ellie Marks, and Zach Shattuck combing for the medal. Marks added her 2nd silver medal in as many days in the women’s 200m individual medley. The highlight, though, was a gold medal performance from Gia Pergolini in the women’s 100m backstroke, her time was just short of breaking her own world record.