The 28-year-old is still at the top of her game after the Paris Olympics, posting some of the fastest times of her career in the leadup to the world championships. Swimmer Katie Ledecky celebrates ...

Katie Ledecky is turning back the clock in her first top ... In the 50m backstroke, Katharine Berkoff won a final that included the 2024 Olympic 100m back second-, third- and fourth-place finishers.

A little more than a week after she stunningly lowered her world record in the 800-meter freestyle to 8:04.12, Swimming World ...

Once again, Katie Ledecky reigns supreme in the ... The time shaved 0.67 seconds off the previous world record, which Ledecky set at the Rio Olympics in 2016. Ledecky holds the 10 fastest times ...

And with the world championships and Olympics up ahead, she's not slowing down. Katie Ledecky reacts after winning ... 00.8 and went 1:00.81.The third and fourth 100s were just a tick slower ...

Katie Ledecky broke her longstanding ... elite competition since the Paris Olympics last year. In Paris, she won the 1,500m free and also claimed a fourth straight 800m free gold as she equalled ...

Regan Smith reacted to Katie Ledecky's world record-breaking feat at the TYR Pro Series meet in Fort Lauderdale. Ledecky clocked 8:04.12 to improve the previous mark of 8:04.79 from the 2016 Rio ...

Winning an 800m race is not unusual for Ledecky. Katie Ledecky fourth-straight victory in the 800m has assured her Olympics immortality — but who is next in line to create greatness in the pool?

Ledecky, 28, improved on the previous record of 8:04.79 that she set at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics on August 12, 2016. It was Ledecky’s first world record in a long-course 50m pool since 2018.

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