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Katie Ledecky. Kathleen Genevieve Ledecky OLY (/ 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 ...
Simone Arianne Biles Owens[4]PMFOLY(née Biles; born March 14, 1997) is an American artistic gymnast. Her 11 Olympic medals and 30 World Championship medals make her the most decorated gymnast in history.[5] She is widely regarded as one of the greatests gymnast of all time and one of the greatest Olympians of all time.[6] With 11 Olympic ...
CAC Championships. 2013 Morelia. 4×100 m relay. Elaine Sandra-Lee Thompson-Herah (born 28 June 1992) [3][4] is a Jamaican sprinter who competes in the 60 metres, 100 metres and 200 metres. Regarded as one of the greatest sprinters of all time, she is a five-time Olympic champion, the fastest woman alive in the 100 m, and the third fastest ever ...
Note: * Indicates athletes who ran in preliminary rounds and also received medals. nb Note: Marion Jones was stripped of all her Olympic medals. In 2008 the Russian team of Evgeniya Polyakova, Aleksandra Fedoriva, Yulia Gushchina, and Yuliya Chermoshanskaya were initially awarded the gold medals. However, the medals were rescinded in 2016 ...
Chloe Kim. Chloe Kim (born April 23, 2000) is an American snowboarder and two-time Olympic gold medalist. At the 2018 Winter Olympics, she became the youngest woman to win an Olympic snowboarding gold medal when she won gold in the women's snowboard halfpipe at 17 years old. [2] At the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, she became the first woman to ...
Jacqueline Joyner-Kersee (born March 3, 1962) is a retired American track and field athlete who competed in both the heptathlon and long jump. She won three gold, one silver, and two bronze Olympic medals at four different Olympic Games. Joyner-Kersee was also a four-time gold medalist (twice each in heptathlon and long jump) at the world ...
As part of its 65th-anniversary celebration, Barbie adds Venus Williams and more elite female athletes to its Role Models series. Ahead of the 2024 Summer Olympics and amid its 65th-anniversary ...
The Soviet gymnast Larisa Latynina was the first gymnast to have been World Champion in every event. Larisa Latynina and Věra Čáslavská have been a World Champion or Olympic Champion in every event. Lavinia Milosovici is the last gymnast to have been a World Champion or Olympic Champion in every event final. Listed separately are the ...