American Katie Ledecky showed where the 800 freestyle could go, and her greatness challenged others to elevate their ...

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 ...

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 ...

RIO DE JANEIRO --Katie Ledeckycompleted the sweep. The American won the women's 800-meter freestyle final in 8:04.79, beating her own world-record time by nearly two seconds to become the second woman ...

It wasn't even close. Katie Ledecky blasted past her own world record in the 800-meter freestyle, leaving the rest of the field far in her wake as she's done so often in the Rio Olympics, winning her ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Freestyle queen Katie Ledecky won her third gold medal of the Rio Olympics by anchoring the U.S. women to victory in the 4x200 metres freestyle relay on Wednesday while ...