Katie Ledecky is now formally the GOAT of ladies’s swimming.
The 27-year-old received her thirteenth Olympic medal within the ladies’s 4×200-meter freestyle relay, changing into the one lady to ever attain that mark.
Ledecky tied the file beforehand held collectively by Jenny Thompson, Emma McKeon, and Dara Torres along with her gold medal within the 1500-meter on Wednesday.
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Katie Ledecky of Workforce USA competes within the Ladies’s 400m Freestyle Heats on day one of many Olympic Video games Paris 2024 at Paris La Protection Enviornment on July 27, 2024 in Nanterre, France. (Jean Catuffe/Getty Photographs)
The file got here with a silver medal within the race, as Australia took dwelling a gold, their swimming-leading fifth of the Video games.
Ledecky and Michael Phelps are the one swimmers in Olympic historical past, male or feminine, to earn not less than 13 Olympic medals (Phelps received 28).
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Ledecky was the third American within the water, getting into the pool with america trailing by 1.4 seconds, however she minimize it by half-a-second halfway by her leg. Ledecky touched the wall for the ultimate time with the People trailing by simply 0.33 seconds, so she made up loads of floor.
Katie Ledecky from the USA celebrates on the award ceremony. (Michael Kappeler/image alliance through Getty Photographs)
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Erin Gemmell was the anchor for the U.S. to attempt to pull out a large comeback victory, however Australia’s Ariarne Titmus was an excessive amount of to deal with.
Ledecky nonetheless has yet another shot to make much more historical past – she’s going to compete within the ladies’s 800m freestyle, with the ultimate happening Saturday at 3:08 p.m. ET.
With a win, she’s going to change into the primary lady to ever win 9 Olympic golds in swimming (she shares the all-time file of eight with Thompson).
Phelps and Mark Spitz are the one swimmers to ever win 9 golds.
This was Ledecky’s third medal in Paris, as she earned bronze within the 400-meter free (shedding to Titmus and Australia).
Katie Ledecky of Workforce USA competes within the Ladies’s 400m Freestyle Heats on day one of many Olympic Video games Paris 2024 at Paris La Protection Enviornment on July 27, 2024 in Nanterre, France. (Jean Catuffe/Getty Photographs)
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It additionally was the twentieth swimming medal for the People, however they now path in golds, 5-4, to Australia.
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