Katie Ledecky is used to entering uncharted waters. Like how the swimmer made history at the 2024 Paris Olympics, becoming the most decorated U.S. female Olympian of all time and the first woman to ...

The world record in the women’s 800-meter freestyle has been untouchable for nearly nine years since Katie Ledecky swam it in 8:04.79 at the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. No one had come within two ...

“There is always a story to each world record that I set,” the Olympian said after notching the record at the TYR Pro Swim Series Carmen Mandato/Getty Katie Ledecky broke her own world record for the ...

Australia set a new world record in the 4×100-meter freestyle relay final on Saturday night, winning an expected gold medal with a time of 3:30:65. That was over one second better than the United ...

Katie Ledecky produced a scintillating swim to break yet another world record on Saturday, this time in the women’s 800m freestyle, lowering the mark she set almost a decade ago at the 2016 Rio ...

There are no women in the world who can swim faster than Katie Ledecky in her freestyle events. And she proved that again at Rio's Summer Olympics, setting world records and dominating distances from ...

NANTERRE, France — Katie Ledecky doesn’t care about every single record she breaks. After all, there are so many it’d be impossible to even track them all. But there was one streak she started back on ...

Katie Ledecky has won her ninth Olympic gold medal to equal the all-time women’s record and defend her 800m freestyle title ahead of Ariarne Titmus. The 27-year-old American swimmer won the event for ...

The only faster time in history is her world record of 15:20.48 from 2018. The second-fastest performer in history — behind ...

In the 50m backstroke, Katharine Berkoff won a final that included the 2024 Olympic 100m back second-, third- and ...