It took the men of the U.S. Paralympic team until the third day of competition to earn their first medal in Tokyo, but once they did the medals kept coming.
Led by world-record efforts from Robert Griswold in the pool and Nick Mayhugh on the track, the U.S. tripled its medal count from four to 12 on Friday, with four of those medals coming in men’s events.
Griswold, the two-time reigning world champion, claimed the first medal of these Games by a U.S. man when he won the 100m backstroke S8 in 1:02.