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Catherine Michelle "Katie" Meili (born April 16, 1991) is a former American competitive swimmer, who won a bronze medal at the 2016 Summer Olympics in the 100 meter breaststroke and a gold medal for swimming the preliminary heats of the 4 × 100-meter medley relay.
The average height of the eight finalists in the 100 meter Freestyle final at the US Olympic Trials was 1.95 m (6 ft 5 in). Another exceptionally tall swimmer is Michael Groß , a German great of the 1980s who is 2.01 m (6 ft 7 in) with an arm span of 2.13 m (7 ft 0 in).
[4] [5] She is also the first female Olympic swimming champion from Italy and the only Italian swimmer to have set world records in more than one event. At the 2020 Summer Olympics , she became the first female swimmer to qualify for five consecutive Olympic finals in the same specialty (200 m freestyle).
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 ...
At the 2020 US Olympic Trials in Omaha, Nebraska, Grimes qualified for the 2020 Summer Olympics in the 800 meter freestyle, placing second after Katie Ledecky with a time of 8:20.36. [7] Following the race, Ledecky commented that Grimes was the "future" of swimming in the United States, and also said to Grimes, "Heck yeah I mean you're the now.
McKeown won the 100 metre backstroke at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics setting a new Olympic record of 57.47 seconds and becoming the first Australian woman to win a backstroke event at an Olympic Games. [18] She also won the 200 metre backstroke event in a time of 2:04.68, and swam the backstroke leg on the gold medal winning women's medley relay. [19]
Katarina Saša Simonović (Serbian Cyrillic: Катарина Саша Симоновић; born 25 October 1994) is a Serbian swimmer. She competed in the women's 400 metre freestyle event at the 2016 Summer Olympics. [1] Born and raised in Mesa, Arizona, [2] [3] Simonović has dual citizenship. Both of her parents are from Serbia. [3]
Both swimmers broke the previous American record and became the only American women to ever break 2:04. [40] Walsh swam the first leg of the 4×200 m freestyle relay, which won bronze and broke the American record with a time of 7:34.70. [41] [42]