When will Katie Ledecky swim again at Olympics?
By Matt Couden
The latest information on when United States swimmer Katie Ledecky will be back in the pool for competition at the 2016 Rio Olympics.
Team USA swimmer Katie Ledecky has been among the superstars at the Rio 2016 Summer Olympics. As of this report, Ledecky has racked up a total of five medals at the latest edition of the games. On Friday night, she also smashed a world record, which has many spectators wondering when Katie Ledecky will swim again at the Rio Olympics.
For these latest Summer Games, Ledecky has won just one silver medal out of her five total. The other four were gold. Ledecky’s silver came in the women’s 4x100m freestyle relay. She took gold in the women’s 200m freestyle, 400m freestyle, 4x200m freestyle relay and just last night, the 800m freestyle.
Ledecky last competed on Friday evening in the women’s 800-meter freestyle final. She set an amazing record with a time of eight minutes and 4.79 seconds. It gave Ledecky her fourth gold medal and bested the second place swimmer by an impressive 11 seconds.
That particular record-breaking swim was Ledecky’s last for the Rio 2016 Summer Olympics. Now she will head to college at Stanford to begin her freshman year there. She had put off starting there in order to train.
Ledecky is age 19 right now, and is expected to appear again at the 2020 Olympics. Those will take place in Tokyo with Ledecky at the age of 23. She’ll probably be more than ready to win more medals and take down more records. She certainly has become a major superstar in United States Olympics swimming.
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For those who want to watch Katie Ledecky swim again, the wait could be four years for Olympics competition. However, she is likely to compete internationally and will focus on NCAA competitions at Stanford over the next four years as well.