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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 ...
Dara Grace Torres (born April 15, 1967) is an American former competitive swimmer, who is a 12-time Olympic medalist and former world record-holder in three events.Torres is the first swimmer to represent the United States in five Olympic Games (1984, 1988, 1992, 2000 and 2008), and at age 41, the oldest swimmer to earn a place on the U.S. Olympic team.
United States: Irene Guest United States: Frances Schroth United States: 1924 Paris details: Ethel Lackie United States: Mariechen Wehselau United States: Gertrude Ederle United States: 1928 Amsterdam details: Albina Osipowich United States: Eleanor Garatti United States: Joyce Cooper Great Britain: 1932 Los Angeles details: Helene Madison ...
Katie Ledecky just won another gold medal at the Paris Olympics, breaking the record for most golds by any American female swimmer.
At the 2012 United States Olympic Trials, Franklin qualified to swim in four individual events at the 2012 Summer Olympics. In her first event, the 100-meter backstroke, Franklin won the final with a time of 58.85, breaking Natalie Coughlin 's American record of 58.94 seconds. [ 44 ]
The 2024 Paris Olympic artistic swimming team is elite at waterproof makeup. The USA Olympic team — which includes Keana Hunter, Anita Alvarez, Daniella Ramirez, Megumi Field, Jamie Czarkowski ...
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 ...
Mead returned gold to Team USA in the men's coxless four rowing race after 64 years, and Ledecky is Team USA's most decorated female swimmer of all time.