Paris Olympics Swimming

Ryan Held of the United States dives in for his leg of the men's 4x100m freestyle relay at the 2024 Summer Olympics, Saturday, July 27, 2024, in Nanterre, France. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)

PARIS (WAND) -- The USA men's 4x100 freestyle relay team is bringing home the gold medal from Paris.

In the prelims Springfield native Ryan Held led the team off swimming a 48.52 leg with the team finishing with a time of 3:12.61 to finish second in their heat.

Heading into the finals of the 4x100 freestyle the United State team would be in lane six. Team USA finished with a time of 3:09.28 to take the gold medal.

While Held didn't swim in the final race he will still bring home his second gold medal after also winning gold back in Rio in 2016.

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