2024-08-04 03:01:00
American Katie Ledecky has added to her legend and become the swimmer with the most gold medals in the history of the Olympic Games, with a total of nine gold medals, after winning the 800 freestyle final at the Paris 2024 tournament on Saturday.
A triumph that not only confirmed the American, who turned 27 last March, as the best swimmer of all time, but also allowed Ledecky to equal Soviet gymnast Larisa Latynina as the female athlete with the most gold medals, nine each, in Olympic history.
A feat that came, as expected, in the 800 metres, his favourite distance, the event that made him known to the world at just 15 years old when he won the 2012 London Olympic Games and which, with this Saturday’s event, he won four times in a row. And also, a feat that until now had only been achieved by the legendary Michael Phelps, who won successively in the finals of the 200m butterfly at the Games in Athens 2004, Beijing 2008, London 2012 and Rio 2016.