The US is going to exceed their medal count from Shanghai, that much is clear. How many of those will be gold is unclear still but with the US already reaching three gold medal individual finals and two of their teams reaching gold medal finals on Friday the US can come home with no less than five medals, two more than they won in China.

The easiest task was probably that of the US compound women’s team of Crystal Gauvin, Emile Bee, and Dhalia Cook. Being seeded third of just four teams they needed to win only one match to reach the final and did so easily 233-222 over Italy. They will take on #1 Colombia in the final on Saturday. Gauvin will be participating in the individual, women’s team, and mixed team finals with a chance for a three medal day. The men’s compound team of Alex Wifler, Steve Anderson, and Braden Gellenthien had to win twice to reach the final and took care of their opposition 231-229 against Colombia and 232-227 against #4 France. Their opponent in the final will be #6 Italy.

In men’s recurve the #2 seed team of Brady Ellison, Jake Kaminski, and Jacob Wukie had to face competition from some neighbors in the first two rounds. They shutout Cuba 6-0 to open but lost a tiebreaker and the quarterfinal match to Mexico 5-4. Doing surprisingly well on the other hand was the #10 women’s recurve team of Erin Mickelberry, Lauren Clamon, and Anna Miscione. Despite struggling in the individual competition the team pulled two upsets (5-4 on a tiebreaker over #7 India and 6-2 over #2 Chinese Taipei) to reach the semifinals where they lost to #3 China 5-1. The US will face #4 Mexico for the bronze medal Sunday.

Saturday is the finals on the compound side. That means Gauvin going for two golds and three medals as well as the men’s team going for gold and Reo Wilde going for individual gold.

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