{"id":589823,"date":"2024-06-22T17:57:36","date_gmt":"2024-06-23T00:57:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=589823"},"modified":"2024-06-22T21:03:23","modified_gmt":"2024-06-23T04:03:23","slug":"u-s-olympic-trials-katie-ledecky-tops-800-free-with-paige-madden-second","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/u-s-olympic-trials-katie-ledecky-tops-800-free-with-paige-madden-second\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Olympic Trials: Katie Ledecky Tops 800 Free with Paige Madden Second"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>U.S. Olympic Trials: Katie Ledecky Tops 800 Free with Paige Madden Second<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The math isn\u2019t all that complicated. The record for most Olympic swimming medals by an American woman is 12, shared jointly by <strong>Natalie Coughlin, Dara Torres<\/strong> and <strong>Jenny Thompson.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Katie Ledecky<\/strong> has 10 career Olympic medals. She has this week at U.S. Olympic Trials already sealed her place in the Paris Olympics in the 400 freestyle, the 1,500 freestyle and the 800 freestyle relay.<\/p>\n<p>That means three chances to join American female swimming\u2019s most exclusive club and, perhaps, to make her own little group. Saturday night, she added a fourth chance.<\/p>\n<p>In the OG Ledecky event, the one that dates back to her Olympic debut 2012, Ledecky dominated Saturday night at U.S. Olympic Trials in 8:14.12.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/meet\/2024-us-olympic-trials-indianapolis\">Meet Page<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.omegatiming.com\/2024\/u-s-olympic-team-trials---swimming-live-results\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Results<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/olympic-trials-day-6-prelims-katie-ledecky-stays-true-to-form-ashley-twichell-sneaks-in\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Women&#8217;s 800 freestyle prelims<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>She\u2019ll head to Paris with the fastest time in the world this year in the event at 8:12.94, set in April. Saturday\u2019s performance at Lucas Oil Stadium slots in third in the world. She owns three of the top four times.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s Ledecky&#8217;s fourth win of the meet. She&#8217;s the first woman to win the same event at four straight Olympic trials.<\/p>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u201cI\u2019m happy to have gotten the job done here in Indy tonight and this week,&#8221; Ledecky told USA Swimming. &#8220;It was a thrill to race in front of this crowd all week, and of course tonight to reminisce a bit on 12 years ago when my international career got kickstarted by that 800 in Omaha in 2012.\u201d<\/div>\n<p>Second place went to <strong>Paige Madden,<\/strong> who set a best time of 8:20.71. That\u2019s seventh in the world this year and it\u2019s a best time for Madden by just shy of seven seconds.<\/p>\n<p>Madden was comfortably clear of <strong>Jillian Cox,<\/strong> who was second in 8:22.97. (Cox was the only non-Ledecky in the field to have been sub-8:20 before). Fourth was <strong>Aurora Roghair,<\/strong> leading fellow 8:28s <strong>Rachel Stege<\/strong> and <strong>Kate Hurst. Claire Weinstein <\/strong>never mounted a charge, finishing seventh, ahead of only <strong>Ashley Twichell<\/strong>, the 35-year-old who set another best time of 8:32.75 in finals<\/p>\n<p>Ledecky was unhappy with her performance in the 1,500, thinking she had more to give. She flirted with her world record pace for the first 300 before falling back.<\/p>\n<p>Ledecky went 8:14.62 to win Trials in 2021, with <strong>Katie Grimes<\/strong> edging out <strong>Haley Anderson<\/strong> by .15 seconds for her Olympic spot in 8:20.36.<\/p>\n<p>Ledecky went 8:17.70 to lead prelims, but the second spot was wide open with the scratch of Grimes. Seven finalists separated by less than three seconds illustrated that. Of them, only Madden and Weinstein are guaranteed to be on the team. Weinstein has an individual event in the 200 free after finishing second. Madden stands to inherit Ledecky\u2019s spot if Ledecky <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/katie-ledecky-will-skip-individual-200-free-in-paris-if-all-goes-well\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">passes on it as she&#8217;s planned<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"589832\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/u-s-olympic-trials-katie-ledecky-tops-800-free-with-paige-madden-second\/w800freefinal-3\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/W800freefinal.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1194,882\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"W800freefinal\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/W800freefinal-700x500.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/W800freefinal-1024x756.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-589832\" src=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/W800freefinal.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"443\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/W800freefinal.jpg 1194w, https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/W800freefinal-1024x756.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/W800freefinal-271x200.jpg 271w, https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/W800freefinal-300x222.jpg 300w, https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/W800freefinal-450x332.jpg 450w, https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/W800freefinal-533x394.jpg 533w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Olympic Trials: Katie Ledecky Tops 800 Free with Paige Madden Second The math isn\u2019t all that complicated. 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