Aug 2, 2024; Nanterre, France; Katie Ledecky (USA) within the girls’s 800-meter freestyle preliminary heats throughout the Paris 2024 Olympic Summer season Video games at Paris La Défense Enviornment. Obligatory Credit score: Rob Schumacher-USA TODAY Sports activities PARIS — Katie Ledecky received a record-tying ninth profession gold medal Saturday on the Paris Olympics, claiming an unprecedented fourth girls’s 800 meters freestyle title.
The American nice touched the wall in 8:11.04 at La Protection Enviornment, 1.25 seconds forward of Australian silver medalist Ariarne Titmus.
Paige Madden took bronze for the USA.
Ledecky’s ninth gold from 4 Video games offers her a share of the all-time document for feminine Olympians with former Soviet gymnast Larisa Latynina.
She additionally joined fellow American nice Michael Phelps as the one swimmer to win 4 Olympic golds in the identical occasion.
Ledecky, 27, additionally received gold earlier this week within the 1,500-meter freestyle. She received her first gold medal at London in 2012, then added 4 at Rio and two extra in Tokyo.
–Reuters, Particular to Area Stage Media