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American swimmer Katie Ledecky won a gold decoration at the 2012 Olympics prior to breaking various world records. She proceeded with her series of wins at the 2016 Summer Olympics, acquiring four gold awards and one silver decoration. 

Who Is Katie Ledecky

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Brought into the world in Maryland in 1997, Katie Ledecky started swimming seriously at age six. Subsequent to procuring a billet on the U.S. Olympic group at age 15, she set an American standard in the 800-meter free-form to win a gold decoration at the 2012 Summer Games. Ledecky has since broken world records across a variety of free-form occasions going from 400 to 1,500 meters. At the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio, she ruled the pool, winning gold awards in the 400-meter free-form in world record time, the 200-meter free-form and the 4x200 meter free-form hand-off, and silver in the 4x100 meter free-form transfer. She likewise broke the world record, winning gold in the 800-meter free-form. 

Early Years and Cutthroat Vocation 

Kathleen Genevieve "Katie" Ledecky was brought into the world on Walk 17, 1997, in Bethesda, Maryland. The second offspring of David, an attorney, and Mary Gen, a previous university swimmer and emergency clinic executive, she started swimming seriously at the Palisades Swim and Social Club at age six, close by her more established sibling, Michael. 

With her apparently unquenchable hunger for pool action, Ledecky turned into a champion at the Country's Capital Swim Club under mentor Yuri Suguiyama. In 2011, Suguiyama started training Ledecky to kick all the more forcefully while dashing, a method usually utilized by first class men's swimmers however seldom seen on the ladies' side. That late spring, before the beginning of her first year at Stone Edge School of the Hallowed Heart, she ruled the U.S. Junior Titles with wins in the 400-, 800-and 1,500-meter free-form occasions. 

2012 London Olympics Breakout Star 

Ledecky made her senior presentation at the 2012 US Olympic Preliminaries, entering the 200-, 400-and 800-meter freestyles. The absence of high level experience end up being no hindrance for the 15-year-old, who flooded to an educational success in the 800m to turn into the most youthful individual from the U.S. group. 

Her force proceeded through the opposition at the 2012 London Games, where Ledecky paced her warmth in the 800m. She then, at that point destroyed the opposition in the last, breaking Janet Evans' 23-year-old American record with a period of 8:14.63 to win the gold decoration. 

A while later, Ledecky showed the simple certainty of somebody who expected to win. "I knew whether I set my attention to it, I could do it," she said. "I wasn't threatened in any way."