That continued when Ledecky arrived at Stanford as a freshman in 2016. Katie Ledecky. She is the daughter of David Ledecky and Mary Gen Ledecky. Matt Barbini, USA Swimmings national team performance director, recalled the feeling after Ledeckys surprise victory in the 800 at the London Olympics in 2012 introduced the little-known teenager to the world. Her win was made even more impressive by the fact that, per her Team USA . 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The world record margin for the 12 other individual events in the Olympic program is 0.44%. Ledecky finished her high-school career as the holder of the Stone Ridge school record in every swimming event except the 100-meter breaststroke. [62] On the meet's final day, Ledecky joined Manuel, Neal, and Janet Hu to break the NCAA and American record in the 400-yard freestyle relay. Her Czech-born paternal grandfather Jaromr Ledecky arrived in New York City on September 8, 1947, as a student,[10] later becoming an economist, and married an Ashkenazi Jewish woman named Berta Ruth Greenwald (Ledecky's paternal grandmother) in Brooklyn on December 30, 1956, and through her Ledecky has relatives who were killed in the Holocaust in Europe. That shows a mastery. [30] In addition, she broke Janet Evans' American record of 8:16.22 that had stood since 1989. On July 1, Ledecky broke Janet Evans's 28-year-old national championship record in the morning preliminary heats of the 800-meter freestyle (8:10.91) before placing seventh that evening in the 100-meter freestyle (53.99). After earning a berth on the U.S. Olympic team at age 15, she set an American record in the 800-meter freestyle to. But she shows gratitude and appreciation and keeps people coming back to get their heads kicked in.. Katie Ledecky owns her time. [46], On the third day of competition during the morning session, Ledecky swam in the heats of the 200-meter freestyle and qualified first with a time of 1:55.82. What happened took everyone by surprise. She has won seven Olympic gold medals and 19 world championship gold medals, the most in history for a female swimmer. The standards for her externally, I think, are just tough sometimes, Meehan said. [97][98][99][100] This accomplishment was highlighted by various news outlets including NBC Sports, Newsweek, and USA Today. Three days later, Ledecky then broke the world record in the 800-meter freestyle with a time of 8:11.00,[37] bettering her previous mark of 8:13.86. She was also named the best female swimmer for 2013 by FINA Aquatics World magazine. We want to know what transformed that girl who couldnt make it across the pool? Ledecky's swim was the seventh-fastest performance in history. Follow. 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Still recovering from illness, Ledecky qualified second the next day for the final of the 800-meter freestyle. In a video posted on social media last summer, Ledecky placed a glass of chocolate milk on her head, then swam the length of the pool. [127][128] In the finals of these two events, Ledecky failed to reach the podium for the 200 m freestyle, placing 5th behind Titmus, Haughey, Oleksiak, and Yang, but placed 1st in the 1500 m race, leading teammate Erica Sullivan (silver) by 4 seconds, clinching her first gold medal of the Games. I dont think she had a clue how fast she was going. Ledecky recorded a split of 52.64 in the heats. Ledecky almost broke the world record in the 800-meter freestyle, finishing with a time of 8:11.35. Her 400-meter split was 4:04.34, a personal best for Ledecky in that distance, and would have placed fifth in the individual 400-meter freestyle. Eighteen years later, Katie Ledecky is the worlds most dominant freestyle swimmer. The history-making has become so common, so many would-be competitors left so far behind, that expectations, just like the pictures, are larger than life. In her international debut at the 2012 London Olympic Games as a 15-year-old, Ledecky unexpectedly won the gold medal in the women's 800-metre freestyle. Ledecky returned to competition three days later to swim the final of the women's 4x200-meter freestyle relay. Winning both? For lengthy races like the 1,500 meters, this must remain constant for more than 15 minutes. A 58-foot-wide picture of Ledecky adorned the outside of the CHI Health Center in Omaha during the Olympic trials in 2016. [48], In her only event on the fourth day of competition, the 200-meter freestyle, Ledecky won her third gold medal of the meet, winning in a time of 1:55.16. Much like the 1500-meter freestyle, Ledecky let Lotte Friis lead most of the race, making a move at the 650-meter mark to eventually win the race by 2.46 seconds. [47] Twenty-nine minutes later, Ledecky qualified 6th in the 200-meter freestyle with a time of 1:56.76. Ledecky was also named Associated Press Female Athlete of the Year in 2017 and 2022, international female Champion of Champions by L'quipe in 2014 and 2017, United States Olympic Committee Female Athlete of the Year in 2013, 2016 and 2017, Sportswoman of the Year by the Women's Sports Foundation in 2017, and the ESPY Best Female Athlete in 2022. The goals were adjusted to pursue times that felt a little scary, a little unreasonable, more than a little exciting: 3:56 in the 400 freestyle and 8:05 in the 800 freestyle. She is Unmarried. But Katie Ledecky would rather study it at Stanford once the Rio Games are in the past. 'In 2016 she was 16. [123] This was Ledecky's first loss in an individual event at the Olympics. [122] Ledecky's time of 3:57.36 was the second-fastest time of her career and fourth-fastest in history. [82], For the seventh-straight year, Ledecky finished the year with the top times in the world in both the 800- and 1500-meter freestyle (8:10.70 and 15:35.98). [96] In the evening final of the 400 meter freestyle, Ledecky finished first with a time of 4:01.27, securing her first spot on her third US Olympic Team swimming the 400 meter freestyle at the 2020 Summer Olympics. Her wins came in the 200-, 400-, 800-, and 1500-meter freestyle and the 4200-meter freestyle. She has no long torso, no wide. 'Gallop' or a 'giddy-up' Once the swimmers emerge from below the surface and. Ledecky swam the second half of the race faster than the first, completing the final 800 meters in 8:14.11faster than any other woman has completed a regular 800-meter race in a textile suit. (Photo: JIM SHORIN/isiphotos.com, Graphic: KATRINA LIOU/The Stanford Daily) By Inyoung Choi. Thats amazing.. On the first day of competition, Ledecky won gold in the 800-meter freestyle with a championship-record time of 8:09.13, topping runner-up Ariarne Titmus of Australia by 7.94 seconds. Thats why Bruce Gemmell quips that Ledecky would be content to race in a cardboard box. [91], As part of the NBC evening telecast for day one of the 2020 USA Swimming Olympic Trials (postponed to June 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic), Ledecky was featured in an interview discussing Stanford University's commencement, finishing her college degree, and training for the Olympic Trials. Her physiology? "Katie Ledecky is the student that takes 20 credits a semester at Harvard and gets a 4.0 every semester -- and nobody likes that person," said Elizabeth Beisel, a 2012 Olympic silver and bronze . [120][121] However, she finished second to Australian swimmer Ariarne Titmus to win the silver medal, trailing Titmus by half a second after leading at the 300m mark. Her time of 7:57.42 surpassed Mireia Belmonte's mark from 2013.[142]. Its a remarkable combination, particularly for someone to be that dominant for so long, which takes so much commitment, while at the same time being so nice and polite and kind.. Katie Ledecky reacts after winning her heat in the Womens 200 Freestyle during the second wave of the U.S. Olympic Swim Trials on June 15 in Omaha, Neb. Just over an hour later, Ledecky took third in the 200-meter freestyle (1:55.15), finishing behind Canada's Taylor Ruck (1:54.44) and Japan's Rikako Ikee (1:54.85). In the inaugural season of the International Swimming League, Ledecky represented DC Trident. [38], At the 2014 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships in Gold Coast, Australia, Ledecky won five gold medals and broke two world records. During the 201718 NCAA season, Ledecky set another three NCAA records and two American records while helping lead Stanford to its second straight team title. But Ledecky doesnt just beat records, she transforms them. [41], On the meet's final day, Ledecky set her fifth world record of the year, lowering her record in the 1500-meter freestyle by nearly six seconds with a time of 15:28.36. She feels water better than anyone else has ever felt water, Barbini said. The top 11 times. Ledecky's supremacy is not born of any freakish physiological gifts such as Phelps' enormous wingspan or double jointed ankles. Michael Phelps, the 28-time Olympic medalist, called Ledecky the greatest female swimmer of our time.. The five-time Olympic gold medalist owns world records in the 400-, 800-, and 1,500-meter freestyles. Even elite womens swimmers at the Olympics arent able to pull off that kind of stroke.. Katie Ledecky, byname of Kathleen Genevieve Ledecky, (born March 17, 1997, Washington, D.C., U.S.), American swimmer who was one of the sport's dominant freestylers in the early 21st century, breaking numerous records. [18], During the summer of 2012, she trained with the Nation's Capital Swim Club (formerly the Curl Burke Swim Club) under coach Yuri Suguiyama. (RNS) Katie Ledecky has no obvious physiological advantages as a swimmer. Katie Ledecky shifts her training base to University of Florida ahead of Paris 2024. Kathleen Genevieve Ledecky (born March 17, 1997) is an American competitive swimmer. [63] The next day, she lowered her own record in the 500-yard freestyle with a time of 4:24.06, beating the second-fastest performer of all-time, Leah Smith, by nearly five seconds. Four years later, she left Rio de Janeiro as the most decorated female athlete of the 2016 Olympic Games, with four gold medals, one silver medal, and two world records. [19], In December 2016, Ledecky was chosen as one of the sponsors of the US Navy aircraft carrier USSEnterprise alongside gymnast Simone Biles. Nathan Fenno is a sports enterprise reporter for the Los Angeles Times focused on investigations, features and in-depth stories. Maybe the history Ledecky is making is as remarkable as how shes doing it. Sports, however, bring a desire for answers, for numbers, for specifics, especially for someone whose accomplishments almost have become disorienting. Her 3:57.36 on Sunday was the second-fastest she . She wasnt great at skills or drills we would try and teach her. TOKYO Katie Ledecky has won her first gold of the Tokyo Olympics, in the 1,500 meter freestyle race. Most of the time she didnt. She also holds the fastest-ever times in the women's 500-, 1000-, and 1650-yard freestyle events. At the Pac-12 Championships in Federal Way, Washington, Ledecky earned Swimmer of the Meet honors with four American records as Stanford won its first conference title in four years. I promise this isnt because Im getting my butt kicked.. In her fourth and last event, the 800-meter freestyle, Ledecky won gold in a world record of 8:13.86, bettering Rebecca Adlington's world record of 8:14.10. Ledecky breaking an arm in fourth grade, but jumping back into the pool with a cast. Ledecky's winning time was over six seconds quicker than American teammate and silver medalist Cierra Runge. Shes not doing it for the adulation, shes not doing it for the title of the worlds greatest swimmer, the coach said. Ledecky began the year by breaking her own world records in the 800- and 1500-meter freestyle at the 2014 Woodlands Swim Team Senior Invitational in June. [7] In total, she has won 42 medals (34 golds, 7 silvers, and 1 bronze) in major international competitions, spanning the Summer Olympics, World Championships, and Pan Pacific Championships. Trust me, Gemmell said. Do not let it pass over you., Subscribers get early access to this story. General swimmers tend to think that if they can just get their arms around faster and kick their legs faster, they can swim faster. During the summers prior to 2012, she swam for Palisades Swim Team in Cabin John, Maryland. She has no long torso, no wide wingspan . She became the first woman to win four individual gold medals at a single Pan Pacific Championship. She became the first swimmer to win a distance event three times in a row, as well as the youngest and oldest person to win the 800 free (at age 15 in 2012 and age 24 in 2021). They review the video together, as much for what he notices as her feedback.
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