PARIS – As some sports come to a close, others are just getting started. With that, Team USA continues to add to its medal count, adding 11 more on Tuesday to sit at 3rd overall.

Team USA’s medal count is 53 (20 gold, 22 silver, 11 bronze).

Leanne Smith swam the race of her life. She set a Paralympic record in the women’s 100m S3 freestyle, taking home the gold medal. The New Hampshire native was one of three U.S. swimming medalists on Tuesday. 37-year old Christie Raleigh-Crossley won gold in her Paralympic debut in the 100m backstroke. She didn’t even know that she was eligible for Para swimming until after the last Games, but today Raleigh-Crossley set her a Paralympic record while hearing her country’s anthem holding gold. Additionally, Olivia Chambers won silver in the 200m individual medley SM13.

For the second straight night, Ezra Frech donned a gold medal at Stade de France. Following his shocking 100m victory on Monday, he set a Paralympic record for T63 high jump. However, Frech wasn’t the only member of Team USA to take home a second gold medal of the Games on Tuesday. Jaydin Blackwell, who set the T38 100m world record on Saturday, matched his own 400m world record for his second gold medal of the week.

The combined age of Team USA’s only two multiple gold medalists of the Games to this point? 39 years.

Blackwell’s performance overshadowed his teammate Ryan Medrano, who claimed silver.

“I’m trying to push him,” Blackwell said. “I’m just glad that I got to race with him, every time we get to race. It’s just a little funny competition, nothing more.”

Brittni Mason earned a silver medal in the women’s T47 100m dash, while Susannah Scaroni took bronze in the women’s T54 1500m.

In Para equestrian, Team USA’s Fiona Howard and Rebecca Hart were golden in individual events grade II and III, respectively. Roxanne Trunnell added a silver in grade I.

Men’s wheelchair basketball dominated France 82-47 in the quarterfinals. Despite facing a hostile crowd of over 12000 at Bercy Arena, Team USA functioned as the aggressors all night long. Jake Williams finished with a game-high 23 points along with ten assists.

Facing a win-or-go home scenario, sitting volleyball swept Italy to advance into the semifinals. The first two sets were highly competitive, finishing with a margin of fewer than five points, but the Stars and Stripes won the third set 25-15.

Of the three para table tennis players competing for Team USA on Tuesday, only Ian Seidenfeld was able to advance. He defeated Spain’s Alvaro Valera in straight sets to advance to the MS6 semifinals on Thursday.

Men’s goalball Paralympic experience concluded with a 4-3 loss to Iran, settling the team into sixth place.

Neither William Schoonover nor Noah Hanssen could make much of a dent in the Sabre categories, (A and B respectively), of wheelchair fencing. They eached bowed out in the table of 16 before losing early in the repechage rounds.

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ON WEDNESDAY:

Twelve cyclists will compete in road cycling time trials throughout the day in Clichy-sous-bois in a plethora of different divisions. The men’s and women’s foil divisions of wheelchair fencing feature five athletes from Team USA. Jordan White and Eric Bennett will shoot in the Men’s Individual Recurve Open 1/16 Para Archery competition. Kate Shoemaker goes for gold in equestrian, while women’s wheelchair basketball takes on Great Britain in the quarterfinals. In the pool, the Mixed 4x100m Freestyle team goes for gold, while many other swimmers will swim in heats in the morning session. The U.S. has the opportunity to add plenty more medals in athletics as well, with nine athletes competing in five different final rounds.