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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Ledecky has the 17 fastest 800 freestyle times in history — and 19 of the top 20, as well as 24 of the top 25. That number was as high as 29 before Canadian swimmer Summer McIntosh defeated ...
On the ninth and final day of competitive swimming at the Olympic Games, Huske competed in the 4×100m medley relay final for Team USA with teammates Regan Smith, Lydia Jacoby, and Abbey Weitzeil. Team USA finished second with a time of 3:51.73, just 0.13 seconds behind Australia's Olympic-record time of 3:51.60, earning Huske a silver medal.
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 ...
Alexandra Jane "Alex" Walsh (born July 31, 2001) is an American competitive swimmer and swimsuit model.She is known for her versatility in all four strokes that has allowed her to have success in medley events. [1]