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Ledecky won her second gold medal of the Olympics and her seventh of all time in the 800-meter freestyle. Her six individual gold medals are the most of any female Olympic swimmer and female US Olympian, and the second-most of all Olympic swimmers behind Michael Phelps. She became the first swimmer to win a distance event three times in a row ...
At the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia, Van Dyken became the first American female athlete to win 4 gold medals in a single Olympic games. Her success in swimming won her a wide variety of awards and accolades, including: the ESPN Awards Female Athlete of the Year award; Swimming World magazine's female Swimmer of the Year award ...
She became the most decorated female Olympic swimmer of all time Thursday when she won silver as part ... Ledecky has the 17 fastest 800 freestyle times in history — and 19 of the top 20, as ...
The 2024 Olympic Swimming Trials are coming full circle 100 years later. Just as top swimmers competed at the 1924 trials in Indianapolis ahead of the 1924 Paris Olympics, today’s swimmers will ...
List of Olympic medalists in swimming (men) List of Olympic medalists in swimming (women) List of individual gold medalists in swimming at the Olympics and World Aquatics Championships (men) List of individual gold medalists in swimming at the Olympics and World Aquatics Championships (women) List of gold medalist relay teams in swimming at the ...
Phelps competed in five Olympics between 2000 and 2016 as a swimmer on the US team. ... 18 Olympic medals in total and remained the top Olympian for ... the most decorated female Olympic swimmers.
Dara Grace Torres (born April 15, 1967) is an American former competitive swimmer, who is a 12-time Olympic medalist and former world record-holder in three events.Torres is the first swimmer to represent the United States in five Olympic Games (1984, 1988, 1992, 2000 and 2008), and at age 41, the oldest swimmer to earn a place on the U.S. Olympic team.