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Katie Ledecky did on Saturday what she always does – win an 800m freestyle race. But this victory at the US Olympic Swimming Team Trials had added significance. The seven-time Olympic champion ...
Swimming: Katie Ledecky wins women’s 800M freestyle for ninth Olympic gold medal. U.S. swimmer Katie Ledecky has won the women’s 800-meter freestyle for her ninth Olympic gold medal. It is the ...
Ledecky won the 800-meter freestyle on Saturday, holding off Australia’s Ariarne Titmus. ... THE 800M FREE BELONGS TO KATIE LEDECKY! She wins her FOURTH consecutive Olympic gold medal in this event.
The women's 800 metre freestyle event at the 2012 Summer Olympics took place on 2–3 August at the London Aquatics Centre [1] based at the Olympic park London. Aged only 15, American Katie Ledecky narrowly missed the world record on the final lap to recapture the first Olympic title for the Americans since Brooke Bennett topped the podium in 2000.
Outside the 8:20 club, Australia's Jessica Ashwood (8:20.32) and Ledecky's teammate Leah Smith (8:20.95), bronze medalist in the 400 m freestyle, picked up the fifth and sixth spots respectively, finishing 63-hundredths of a second apart from each other.
Team USA swimmer Katie Ledecky celebrates her gold medal on the podium of the women's 800-m freestyle during the 2024 Paris Summer Olympic Games at the Paris La Defense Arena in Nanterre, west of ...
The women's 800 metre freestyle event at the 2020 Summer Olympics was held from 29 to 31 July 2021 at the Tokyo Aquatics Centre. [1] It was the event's 14th consecutive appearance, having been held at every edition since 1968. Katie Ledecky won the gold medal, becoming the first person to win the event three consecutive times. At age 24 ...
Ledecky capped another stellar Olympics by becoming only the second swimmer to win an event at four straight Summer Games, holding off Ariarne Titmus, the "Terminator," to win the 800 free ...