Tag: Katie Ledecky
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Swimming prodigy Katie Ledecky sets sight on bigger things
Olympic gold medalist Katie Ledecky broke multiple world swimming records before graduating high school. Now in her senior year in Bethesda, Md., she’s wrapping up her high school swimming career and looking forward to World Championships this summer. Courtesy of The Washington Post http://youtu.be/VuBmFzQMvFs
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2014 USA Swimming Golden Goggle Awards: Female Athlete of The Year
Katie Ledecky wins Female Athlete of the Year at the 2014 Golden Goggle Awards in New York.
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Katie Ledecky swims wearing cap of student seriously hurt in car crash
In the first meet of her senior year, Katie Ledecky wore a cap belonging to a swimmer from another school who was seriously injured in a car crash. Ledecky, the Olympic 800m freestyle champion and multiple world record holder, swam for Stone Ridge School of the Sacred Heart while wearing a Gonzaga College High School swim cap in a…
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Katie Ledecky 3:58.86 and World Record in the 400 free
Read SwimmingWorld Ledecky raced her way to a 3:58.86 to win the middle distance event, and down Federica Pellegrini’s world record (3:59.15) and her own American record (3:59.82) as she blasted through the 3:59 barrier. Ledecky, who already holds the world records in the 800 (8:11.00) and 1500 (15:34.23) freestyle events, becomes the first swimmer…
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Video: 2014 US Nationals – Women’s 200 Freestyle Final
Courtesy of USA Swimming on YouTube, see the result list here.
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Video: 2014 US Nationals – Women’s 800 Freestyle Final
Courtesy of USA Swimming on YouTube, see the result list here.
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Katie Ledecky Press Conference at the 2014 USA Swimming National Championships
Courtesy of USA Swimming on YouTube
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Katie Ledecky has more than Olympics on her mind
The most dominant distance swimmer of her generation serves meals to the homeless once a month. Maryland teenager Katie Ledecky also collects, assembles and repairs bicycles for developing countries instead of attending classes every other week during the school year. The Stanford-bound swim star volunteers with the Wounded Warrior Project at the Walter Reed Bethesda…
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Katie Ledecky 8:11.00 and World Record in the 800 free
Read SwimmingWorld Katie Ledecky put an exclamation point on a thrilling meet this afternoon with a world record in the women’s 800m free during the final day of racing at The Woodlands Senior Invite. Ledecky, who lowered her own world record in the 1500m free on Thursday, broke her second world record of the meet…