Katie Ledecky reaches GOAT status at 2024 Olympics – NBC4 Washington

Workforce USA swimmer Katie Ledecky received one other medal on Thursday making her the most-decorated U.S. lady in Olympic historical past and additional solidifying her place in swimming historical past as one of many Biggest Of All Time.

The Bethesda native reached that milestone as a part of the 4x200m relay the place the foursome took residence silver. A day earlier, Ledecky earned gold within the 1500m freestyle — crushing her opponents.

If you happen to missed that race, Ledecky left everybody else within the pool meters behind, you may catch the highlights right here. (Sadly, the highlights do not embody the truth that the cameraman actually needed to zoom out to get the opposite swimmers within the shot by the top of the race.)

Her 2024 Paris Olympics efficiency broke the Olympic file for quickest race within the ladies’s 1500m freestyle occasion. It might be bittersweet for the earlier holder of that file, besides… properly, that was additionally Ledecky.

That bought us questioning… what number of different data does Katie Ledecky maintain?

Here is an inventory of Katie Ledecky’s medals, data, superlatives and different spectacular swimming accomplishments.

What number of Olympic medals does Katie Ledecky have?

Ledecky made her Olympic debut in 2012 on the London Olympics, then went on to swim within the 2016 Rio Olympics and the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Paris is her fourth Olympic look.

In that point, Ledecky has received a whopping 13 Olympic medals, together with Wednesday’s 1500m victory and Thursday’s relay. Wednesday’s race was her eighth gold medal. Here is the breakdown:

• 2012 London: Gold medal, 800m freestyle (her solely occasion that Olympics)
• 2016 Rio: Gold medal, 200m freestyle
• 2016 Rio: Gold medal, 400m freestyle
• 2016 Rio: Gold medal, 800m freestyle
• 2016 Rio: Gold medal, 4x200m freestyle relay
• 2016 Rio: Silver medal, 4x100m freestyle relay
• 2020 Tokyo: Gold medal, 800m freestyle
• 2020 Tokyo: Gold medal, 1500m freestyle
• 2020 Tokyo: Silver medal, 400m freestyle
• 2020 Tokyo: Silver medal, 4x200m freestyle relay
• 2024 Paris: Bronze medal, 400m freestyle
• 2024 Paris: Gold medal, 1500m freestyle
• 2024 Paris: Silver medal, 4x200m freestyle relay

The one different feminine swimmer to match Ledecky in gold medals is Jenny Thompson, the U.S. swimmer who competed in 1992, 1996 and 2000.

Thompson and Ledecky are neck-and-neck for many gold medals from a feminine Olympic swimmer from any nation.

When Ledecky medaled within the 4x200m freestyle relay on Thursday, her 13 medals put her in that prime tier alongside Thompson, Dana Torres and Natalie Coughlin.

Michael Phelps nonetheless holds the file for many Olympic medals of all time, with a whopping 23 Olympic golds, in keeping with NBC Olympics.

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Ledecky holds world data in two occasions, and has damaged world data over a dozen instances, in keeping with NBC Olympics.

And bear in mind how her 1500m freestyle race broke her personal Olympic file? That is occurred a majority of the time Ledecky has damaged a swimming file.

In whole, Ledecky owns the 20 quickest instances within the ladies’s 1500m freestyle occasion’s historical past. And it is no marvel, since she does issues like profitable her preliminary warmth by 17.83 seconds.

Ledecky additionally holds the world file within the 800m freestyle occasion.

Has anybody ever crushed Katie Ledecky?

With regards to world championships and the Olympics, Katie Ledecky is, so far, unbeaten within the the 800m freestyle and within the 1500m freestyle.

In Tokyo, Australian Ariarne Titmus beat Ledecky within the 400m freestyle by about half a second. Titmus additionally beat Ledecky, and Canada’s Summer time McIntosh, within the 400m freestyle in Paris on Saturday.

In keeping with NBC Olympics, Katie Ledecky “is comfortably the best distance swimmer of all time, no matter gender.” No swimmer comes near her file in occasions above 400m.

Not a superlative, however nonetheless cool

For her, frankly, astonishing swimming accomplishments, President Joe Biden awarded Katie Ledecky the Presidential Medal of Freedom earlier this yr.

It is the best civilian honor in the USA, and Ledecky joined the likes of Nancy Pelosi, Michelle Yeoh and Al Gore when she obtained the award in Might.

And in different cool Ledecky info, NBC Sports activities did the mathematics and discovered that she’s swum over 37 million meters in her lifetime — round 23,000 miles.

Meaning in the event you add up Ledecky’s time swimming — as an age group swimmer as a toddler, throughout her observe time occasions, in her world championship races, her time within the Olympics and her coaching — she has swum about so far as the circumference of the Earth.

Put one other means, Katie Ledecky may have swum one-tenth of the way in which to the moon by now.

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