We’ll be tracking the medal count for the 2020 Tokyo Summer Paralympics every day, and we’ll be including Team LGBTQ as if the athletes collectively made up a nation competing in the Games.

a man wearing a costume: Hailey Danz has won a silver medal in triathlon in back-to-back Paralympics. © Photo by CHARLY TRIBALLEAU/AFP via Getty Images Hailey Danz has won a silver medal in triathlon in back-to-back Paralympics.

There are currently 33 out athletes on Team LGBTQ. That number could grow over the course of the Paralympics. That number of athletes makes Team LGBTQ the 33rd-largest team at these Tokyo Games. As we watch the medal count and rankings, that’s a good barometer to measure the success of these athletes.

Currently Team LGBTQ is ranked 16th in the medal count, just ahead of Iran

Rankings are determined by: 1) gold medals; 2) silver medals; 3) bronze medals; 4) total medals.

The Team LGBTQ medal totals as of now:

Gold: 3

Silver: 5

Bronze: 1

The current Team LGBTQ medal winners at the Tokyo Summer Olympics:

Gold Medalists

Lee Pearson, Great Britain, equestrian - para dressage

Pearson won his second gold of these Paralympics in the Team Test to Music

Lauren Rowles, Great Britain, rowing

Rowles took gold in mixed double sculls

Lee Pearson, Great Britain, equestrian - para dressage

It was his 12th Paralympic gold medal and 15th medal overall

Silver Medalists

Moran Samuel, Israel, rowing

After carrying Israel’s flag in the opening ceremony, Samuel won silver in single sculls

Katie Dunlevy, Ireland, cycling

Dunlevy got sixth her first event, then silver in Women’s B 3000m Individual Pursuit.

Hailey Danz, USA, triathlon

Danz won her second consecutive Paralympics silver medal in triathlon.

Kate O’Brien, Canada, cycling

The former Olympian is now a Paralympic silver medalist in the Women’s C4-5 500m Time Trial.

Crystal Lane-Wright, Great Britain, cycling

It was the first medal for Team LGBTQ, coming on the first day of competition.

Bronze Medalists

Robyn Lambird, Australia, track & field - women’s 100m - T34

Lambird is the first publicly out non-binary athlete to win a Paralympics medal.

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