As the Olympic Games in Tokyo enter its final week of competition, Black athletes are nowhere near being done. From clinching medals in record-breaking performances to just doing their very best, here is a list of things that our top five favorite Olympians just did. 

Athing Mu became the first American woman to win gold medal in the women’s 800m since 1968.

Athing Mu, a 19-year-old track and field athlete clinched the gold medal on Tuesday during the women’s 800m, clocking in at one minute, 55.21 seconds. Her time is the fastest an American has ever finished the race and the fifth-best time in Olympic history, according to Yahoo Entertainment. 

"It's awesome. I feel like I've just accomplished one of my goals," the New Jersey native said, Olympics.com reported. "I just wanted to be a medallist. I wasn't really putting gold on that, but as it got closer to the final today, I was like, 'Yeah, we want gold.'"

“I wasn’t thinking about pace, I wasn’t thinking about how the race is going to go,” she added.“I knew I was ready, I knew I was relaxed, confident so I just wanted to keep that going into the start of the race."

The last time an American woman placed first in the event was in 1968 during the Mexico City Games.

“Coming into the race I was just at peace. I wasn’t too anxious about it. You know I knew I wanted to get the gold medal and I just told myself I’m going to do all I have to do to get there,” Mu said.

Gabby Thomas clinched the bronze medal in the women’s 200m.

Another American track star, Gabby Thomas, secured the bronze medal in the women’s 200-meter race Tuesday evening. 

"It was a very tough three seconds at the end, not knowing if I got a medal or not, but I focused on my composure," the 24-year-old told reporters following the race. "The last thing my coach told me was to stay relaxed throughout the entire race and I think that is what got me the medal."

At the U.S. Olympic Track & Field Team Trials in June, Thomas ran the 200m race in an astounding 21.61 seconds, the third-fastest 200m sprint of all time which made her the second-fastest woman in the history of the event, behind Florence Griffith-Joyner. 

Thomas graduated from Harvard in 2019 with a neurobiology degree and is currently on her way to pursuing her master's in epidemiology and health care management from the University of Texas at Austin. She hopes to inspire people to pursue as many passions as they want in life, and never limit themselves to anything. 

"For me it is really important to find balance [in life] and just to let anyone know that you can really do whatever you want to do as long as you are passionate about it," she said.

U.S. teen Erriyon Knighton made history at the Olympics in the men’s 200m.

Erriyon Knighton, 17, is not only the youngest U.S. male track Olympian since Jim Ryun in 1964, but after his latest win, he’s also poised to win a gold medal in the men’s 200m.

Knighton matriculated to the 200m finals after winning with a time of 20.02 seconds, becoming the youngest male Olympian to make the 200m final in 37 years, the New York Post reported. 

The teenager also topped the record of the fastest man alive, Usain Bolt, in his under-20 world record time of 20.13.

“He has so much untapped talent. We haven’t even touched the surface yet,” Knighton’s high school coach Jonathan Terry told reporters. “He’s 17 years old so we’re thinking about when you’re 25 years old, your second Olympics, you’re going to do something special, especially being compared to the great Usain Bolt.”

Simone Biles snags the bronze medal in her Olympic return.

After taking a brief hiatus from the Olympic competition, Simone Biles finished with a bronze medal after her performance in the balance beam individual final, as Blavity previously reported. 

"I was just trying to hit one more beam set. To have one more opportunity to compete at the Olympics meant the world to me,” Biles said, ESPN reported. 

This award is also the second time the 24-year-old took home bronze hardware. In 2016 at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Biles secured the same honor, also during the balance beam final.

"People just thought it was easy, but I physically and mentally was not in the right headspace, and I didn't want to jeopardize my health and my safety because at the end of the day, it's not worth it,” the seven-time Olympic medalist said.

"My mental and physical health is above all medals that I could ever win," she continued. "So to be clear, to do beam, which I didn't think I was going to be, just meant the world to be back out there. And I wasn't expecting to walk away with the medal. I was just going out there doing this for me."

Tamyra Mensah-Stock became the first Black Olympian from the U.S. to win gold in women’s wrestling.

Tamyra Mensah-Stock made history on Tuesday after defeating Nigeria’s Blessing Oborududu 4-1 in the women’s 68-kilogram freestyle wrestling final, Dallas News reported. 

The Texas native became the first Black American woman to win Olympic gold in wrestling and the second American woman ever to take home the glory in the event. 

“These young [Black] women are going to see themselves in a number of ways and they’re going to look up there and go, I can do that,” she said. “I can see myself. They paved the way for me.”

In 2016, Helen Maroulis became the first American woman to win gold in women’s wrestling when she upset Japan’s Saori Yoshida to win the 53 kg class.

Not only is the 28-year-old relishing in the fact that she is the first Black woman to win in the event, but also to have competed in the final against another Black woman. 

“I’m like, ‘Oh my gosh, look at us representing,” Mensah-Stock said. “It’s so freaking awesome. You’re making history, I’m making history. We’re making history. So it meant a lot.”

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