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Katie Ledecky. Kathleen Genevieve Ledecky (/ ləˈdɛki / lə-DEK-ee; born March 17, 1997) [6] is an American competitive swimmer. She has won nine Olympic gold medals and 21 world championship gold medals, the most in history for a female swimmer. With 14 medals and 9 gold medals, she is also the most decorated American woman, most decorated ...
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.
Janet Evans was the 1989 recipient of the James E. Sullivan Award as the top amateur athlete in the United States. She was named the Female World Swimmer of the Year by Swimming World Magazine in 1987, 1989, and 1990. In 1988, as a junior in high school, she was recognized as a "Rising Star" by the Los Angeles Times. [9]
Lydia Alice Jacoby OLY (born February 29, 2004) is an American professional swimmer. She was the first Alaskan to qualify for an Olympic Games in swimming, competing at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo in 2021, where she won the gold medal in the 100-meter breaststroke with a time of 1:04.95, which was the fastest time ever achieved by a female American swimmer in the event in the 17–18 age ...
Katie Ledecky just won another gold medal at the Paris Olympics, breaking the record for most golds by any American female swimmer. The 27-year-old had a historic 800-meter freestyle swim on Aug ...
The 2024 Paris Olympic artistic swimming team is elite at waterproof makeup. The USA Olympic team — which includes Keana Hunter, Anita Alvarez, Daniella Ramirez, Megumi Field, Jamie Czarkowski ...
Missy Franklin. Melissa Franklin Johnson[2] (born May 10, 1995) is an American former competitive swimmer and five-time Olympic gold medalist. She held the world record in the 200-meter backstroke (long course) from 2012 to 2019. [3][4] As a member of the U.S. national swim team, she also held the world records in the 4×100-meter medley relay ...
100 m freestyle. Amy Deloris Van Dyken-Rouen (born February 15, 1973) is an American former competitive swimmer, Olympic champion, former world record-holder, and national radio sports talk show co-host. She won six Olympic gold medals in her career, four of which she won at the 1996 Summer Olympics, making her the first American woman to ...