Katie Ledecky is the GOAT. Here are the superlatives she’s earned that prove it

Group USA swimmer Katie Ledecky won one more Olympic gold on Wednesday during the ladies’ 1500-meter free-form race, further setting her place in swimming history as the Best ever (GOAT).

Here are the highlights if you missed the Bethesda native leaving everyone else in the pool meters behind. Sadly, the fact that the cameraman had to zoom out to get the other swimmers in the frame by the end of the race is not included in the highlights.)

Her performance at the Paris Olympics in 2024 broke the Olympic record for USA Basketball: Joel Embiid, Jrue Holiday will re-enter starting lineup vs. Puerto Rico at 2024 Olympics the fastest women’s 1500-meter freestyle race. It would be mixed for the past holder of that record, aside from… indeed, that was likewise Ledecky.

That got us thinking: Katie Ledecky holds how many other records?

The medals, records, superlatives, and other impressive swimming achievements of Katie Ledecky are listed below. We will update this article with any new achievements Katie obtains during the remaining games.)

How many medals has Katie Ledecky won at the Olympics?

Ledecky competed in swimming at the London Olympics in 2012, followed by the Rio Olympics in 2016 and the Tokyo Olympics in 2020. Paris is her fourth Olympic appearance.

Ledecky has won a whopping 12 Olympic medals during that time, including the victory in the 1500m on Wednesday. That race was her eighth gold award. Ashley Benefield, who claimed self-defense in estranged husband’s killing, found guilty of manslaughter  The breakdown follows:

• 2012 London: Gold medal, 800m freestyle (her only event 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

And Ledecky is not yet finished. She will compete in the 4x200m freestyle relay on Thursday, where she is likely to win another medal and become the U.S. woman with the most decorations at the Olympics.

Jenny Thompson, a U.S. swimmer who competed in 1992, 1996, and 2000, is the only other female swimmer to have won more gold medals than Ledecky.

Thompson and Ledecky are, as of Wednesday, in a dead heat for most gold decorations from a female Olympic swimmer from any country.

Additionally, Ledecky is only one medal shy of the record for the most medals won by a U.S. swimmer in women’s swimming history. If Ledecky wins the 4x200m PARIS Gymnastics Olympics 2024: DAY SIX LIVE – FULL SCHEDULE AND MEDAL EVENTS ON AUGUST 1  freestyle relay on Thursday, she will join Thompson, Dana Torres, and Natalie Coughlin in the top tier with 13 medals.

Michael Phelps actually holds the record for most Olympic decorations ever, with an incredible 23 Olympic golds, as indicated by NBC Olympics.

Record times

Ledecky holds world records in two occasions, and has broken world records north of twelve times, as per NBC Olympics.

Also, recall how her 1500m free-form race broke her own Olympic record? That has occurred most of the time whenever Ledecky has set a swimming record.

Altogether, Ledecky claims the 20 quickest times in the ladies’ 1500m free-form occasion’s set of experiences. Furthermore, it’s no big surprise, since she does things like winning her fundamental intensity by 17.83 seconds.

In addition, Ledecky holds the 800-meter freestyle world record.

Has anybody at any point beaten Katie Ledecky?
With regards to big showdowns and the Olympics, Katie Ledecky is, until this point in time, unbeaten in the 800m free-form and in the 1500m free-form.

In Tokyo, Australian Ariarne Titmus beat Ledecky in the 400m free-form by about a portion of a second. In addition, Titmus defeated Canada’s Summer McIntosh and Ledecky in the 400-meter freestyle on Saturday in Paris.

Katie Ledecky “is comfortably the greatest distance swimmer of all time, regardless of gender,” as stated by NBC Olympics. No swimmer comes near her record in occasions above 400m.

Not a standout, yet cool

As far as she might be concerned shocking swimming achievements, President Joe Biden, to be perfectly honest, granted Katie Ledecky the Official Decoration of Opportunity recently.

It’s the most elevated regular citizen honor in the US, and Ledecky joined any semblance of Nancy Pelosi, Michelle Yeoh and Al Butchery when she got the honor in May.

Also, in other cool Ledecky realities, NBC Sports crunched the numbers and figured out that she’s swum more than 37 million meters in the course of her life – – around 23,000 miles.

This indicates that Ledecky has swum about as far around the world as the Earth’s circumference when you add up her swimming time as an age group swimmer as a child, during her practice time events, in her world championship races, in the Olympics, and during her training.

Put another way, Katie Ledecky might have swum one-10th of the way to the moon at this point.