August 2, 2024; Nanterre, France; Katie Ledecky (USA) through the girls’s 800m freestyle preliminaries on the Paris 2024 Summer season Olympics at La Défense Stadium in Paris. Necessary Credit score: Rob Schumaker-USA TODAY Sports activities PARIS — Katie Ledecky received a record-tying ninth profession gold medal on the Paris Olympics on Saturday, capturing an unprecedented fourth girls’s 800-meter freestyle title.
The American nice hit the wall at La Défense Enviornment in 8 minutes 11.04 seconds, 1.25 seconds forward of Australian silver medalist Ariane Titmus.
Paige Madden received bronze for Crew USA.
Ledecky’s ninth gold medal in 4 Olympics tied her with former Soviet gymnast Larisa Latynina for the all-time file for a feminine Olympian.
She additionally joins American nice Michael Phelps as the one swimmers to win 4 Olympic gold medals in the identical occasion.
Ledecky, 27, additionally received gold within the 1,500-meter freestyle occasion earlier this week. She received her first gold medal in London in 2012, adopted by 4 gold medals in Rio and two extra in Tokyo.
——Reuters, on-site media particular report
