Career
Ledecky won Olympic gold at fifteen and has dominated the 800 m and 1500 m ever since by margins unheard of in swimming — often more than ten seconds. She has held the world record in the 1500 m continuously for over a decade.
🏊 Swimming · Distance freestyle
Katie Ledecky
United States · 2012–present
Wins distance finals by lengths, not fingertips.
- 9
- Olympic golds
- 21+
- World titles
- 16
- World records
- 15
- First gold at
Honours
- Most individual Olympic golds by a female swimmer
- Most world titles of any female swimmer
- Held the 800 m and 1500 m world records for over a decade
- Olympic champion at fifteen in the 800 m freestyle
