Olympic 2016 Medal Count: Thursday's Latest Nation Rankings and Standings

Great Britain claimed gold in the sailing and silver in canoeing at the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro on Thursday. There was further joy when the Brownlee brothers, Alistair and Jonathan, took gold and silver, respectively, in the men's triathlon.

Yet it's still Team USA comfortably leading the way in the overall medal count for the Games. Their cause was boosted by Kerron Clement besting the field in the men's 400-metre hurdles final.

Here's what the medal count looks like with some of Thursday's biggest events in the books:

Recap

Clement was too fast and powerful for the competition, en route to clocking a finishing time of 47.73 seconds, according to Seth Rubinroit of NBC Olympics. His win also set a special mark for Team USA at these Games, per ESPN SportsCenter:

Clement also set the world's fastest mark for this event in 2016, per BBC Sport.

Further success for the medal count leaders came when Helen Maroulis made history in the women's freestyle 53-kilogram wrestling, per NBCOlympics:

Maroulis got the better of decorated Japanese grappler Saori Yoshida after earning a quartet of technical points during the bout, despite receiving a caution in the opening period, per Rio2016.com.

A piece of history was also earned by Alistair Brownlee when he became "the first triathlete to retain an Olympic title," according to Jim White and Claire Thomas of the Daily Telegraph. His moment came at the expense of brother Jonathan, who was still happy enough with silver, as the siblings took to social media to share the moment:

Host nation Brazil were also well-represented on the day when sailors Martine Grael and Kahena Kunze won gold in the women's 49er FX race. In what proved to be a tense and frantic finish, the South American pair were taken all the way to the line by New Zealand's Alex Maloney and Molly Meech.

It took a late jib from Grael and Kunze to force their boat over the line first but only by the narrowest of margins. World Sailing detailed just how close things were:

Hannah Mills and Saskia Clark started the day's sailing by confirming their gold medal in the women's 470 race. They finished eighth in the medal race but had already built up a strong enough overall lead to add to Team GB's growing gold tally.

Earlier in the day, it was Team GB pair Liam Heath and Jon Schofield who produced a thrilling effort to earn a medal. The duo claimed silver in the canoeing 200-metre kayak double after a dramatic final sprint helped them finish one place above what they managed at the 2012 edition of the Games.

There was another medal for Great Britain when Joshua Buatsi claimed the second bronze in the men's light heavy 81-kilorgram boxing event. Buatsi lost to Kazakhstan's Adilbek Niyazymbetov on a unanimous points decision that saw judges award all three rounds to the latter.

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A bronze medal is still an excellent achievement for an athlete who entered these games as an unseeded fighter. Ultimately, though, raw Buatsi was too inexperienced for savvy 27-year-old Niyazymbetov, per the Guardian's Kevin Mitchell: "He is a cagey operator, the southpaw, and he picked off the fast-improving and willing Buatsi with neat counters as he moved into range looking to unload."

The gold went to the class of the division in the form of Cuba's Julio Cesar la Cruz. His swift hands were matched for speed by his quick thinking and sound strategy, as he took down Frenchman Mathieu Albert Daniel Bauderlique before beating Niyazymbetov, without dropping a round in either fight.