The United States won nine medals, including five golds, to take a commanding lead in the overall medal count at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London on Thursday. Here’s a recap of the day’s highlights:

Carli Lloyd scored twice as the US women’s soccer team beat Japan, 2-1, to win the gold medal in front of 80,203 at Wembley Stadium. The victory avenged the Americans’ loss to the Japanese team at the Women’s World Cup last summer.

On the track, Usain Bolt of Jamaica became the first sprinter to win the 100- and 200- meters in consecutive Olympics. Bolt led a Jamaican sweep of the 200, with countrymen Yohan Blake and Warren Weir taking silver and bronze respectively.

American Ashton Eaton won the gold medal in the decathlon, and teammate Trey Hardee earned silver, as the US won two decathlon medals in the same Olympics for the first time since Milt Campbell and Rafer Johnson did so in 1956. American jumper Christian Taylor won gold in the men’s triple jump, outdistancing his teammate Will Claye, who earned silver.

Maggie Steffens scored five goals and the United States beat Spain, 8-5, to win its first Olympic gold medal in women’s water polo. 

Other US medalists were Claressa Shields, who won the first US women’s boxing gold medal in Olympic history, swimmer Haley Anderson, who claimed the silver medal in the women’s 10-km swim, and Terrence Jennings, who earned bronze in the men’s featherweight division of the taekwondo competiton.

In other results, the US women’s volleyball team beat South Korea in straight sets to reach a gold medal rematch with Brazil, the country that beat them in the 2008 Olympic finale in Beijing.

Overall Medal Leader Board

United States — 90 medals
39 Gold, 25 Silver, 26 Bronze

China — 80 medals
37 Gold, 24 Silver, 19 Bronze

Russia — 56 medals
12 Gold, 21 Silver, 23 Bronze

Great Britain — 52 medals
25 Gold, 13 Silver, 14 Bronze

Germany — 37 medals
10 Gold, 16 Silver, 11 Bronze

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