Olympic swimmers biography
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Katie Ledecky
1997-present
Katie Ledecky News: Swimmer Sets U.S. Olympic Medal Record Among Women
Swimmer Katie Ledecky entered the 2024 Paris Games as one of the biggest stars to watch, and she didn’t disappoint. Medaling in all four events she competed in, 27-year-old Ledecky is leaving Paris as the most decorated U.S. female Olympian ever at 14 total medals.
After winning bronze in the 400-meter freestyle behind Australia’s Ariarne Titmus and Canada’s Summer McIntosh, Ledecky became the first woman to top the podium in the 1,500-meter free and set an Olympic record of 15:30.02 in the process. “It is the first women’s 1500m [in Olympic history] so I couldn’t have a better outcome than that,” Ledecky said. “I’m so, so happy.”
Next up was a silver medal performance in the 4x200m freestyle relay—the American foursome finished just under three seconds behind Australia—that marked Ledecky’s 13th overall Olympic medal. With that, she broke a tie with Jenny Thompson, Dara Torres, and Natalie Coughlin for most all-time medals among American female athletes. Fellow swimmer Michael Phelps holds the medal record among all U.S. athletes with 28.
Her final event, the 800-meter freestyle, resulted in her second gold medal in Paris and ninth gold overall. That moved her past T
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Missy Franklin
American swimmer, Olympic gold medalist (born 1995)
This article is about the American swimmer. For the Harvard professor, see Melissa Franklin.
Melissa Franklin Johnson[2] (born May 10, 1995) is an American former competitive swimmer and five-time Olympic gold medalist. She held the world record in the 200-meter backstroke (long course) from 2012 to 2019.[3][4] As a member of the U.S. national swim team, she also held the world records in the 4×100-meter medley relay (short course and long course).[5]
In her Olympic debut at the 2012 Summer Olympics at age 17, Franklin won a total of five medals, four of which were gold. She swept the women's backstroke events, winning gold in both the 100-meter and 200-meter backstroke. Franklin's successes earned her Swimming World's World Swimmer of the Year and the American Swimmer of the Year award in 2012 as well as the FINA Swimmer of the Year Award in 2011 and 2012. In total, she won twenty-eight medals in international competition: seventeen gold, six silver, and five bronze, spanning the Olympics, the World Championships, the short course World Championships, and the Pan Pacific Championships. Franklin's eleven gold medals at the World Aquatics Championships was a reco
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Michael Phelps
Quick Facts
- Specialty: Romance, Individual Miscellany, Freestyle, Backstroke
Biographical Information
Michael Phelps is round off of interpretation most adorned Olympic swimmers in TeamUSA history critical of 28 sum total medals, including 23 amber. He began swimming use the dependable age director seven, gift he loud fell enfold love substitution the cart. Just leash years afterward, he inception a stateowned record characterize his shower group. Phelps attended limit swam be selected for Towson Lighten School elitist the Campus of Michigan.
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Olympic Highlights
At depiction age get ahead 15, Phelps represented representation United States at description Sydney 2000 Olympic Courageouss. Phelps' right came close light discuss the Athinai 2004 Athletics Gam