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Dover, NH
Dover High School (Dover, N.H.) Stanford University; Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
NANTERRE, France — A dozen years ago to the day, Katie Ledecky won her first Olympic gold medal. She was 15 years old, not yet a sophomore in high school, and was so far off the radar that night that reporters were not even paying attention to the wome...
NANTERRE, France — There are few sure things at an Olympic Games. But Katie Ledecky winning a 1,500-meter freestyle race is as close as it gets. She owns the 20 fastest performances in the event’s history, and she won the women’s 1,500 free’s Olympic d...
With her eight gold medals and 12 overall medals, Jenny Thompson has won more Olympic medals than any other female swimmer in Olympic history. Born in Danvers, Massachusetts, to a single mother, Thompson earned a scholarship to Stanford University. She went on to compete at four Olympic Games, winning each of her eight gold medals in relay events. One of her biggest accomplishments came in 1999, when Thomson broke the world record in the 100-meter butterfly and broke a nearly 20-year record previously held by her, idol Mary T. Meagher. She made the 2004 U.S. Olympic Swim Team while studying as a medical student. Thompson won two silver medals at the Athens 2004 Games in the 4x100 freestyle and medley relays and retired afterwards. She continues to practice as a physician, specializing as a pediatric anesthesiologist. A recreation center in Dover, New Hampshire, bears her name and Thompson continues to help at an annual camp held there.
Marathon swimmers face all sorts of conditions. In Paris, the open-water swimmers faced a mean current.
NANTERRE, France — After nine days of swimming at Paris’ La Defense Arena, the U.S. women put an exclamation mark on the end of the the Olympic Games Paris 2024 — shutting down the pool with a new world record.After first-time Olympian Gretchen Walsh n...
NANTERRE, France — Coming to the Olympic Games Paris 2024, men on the U.S. swimming team had won at least one gold medal in an individual event in every Olympiad since the Olympic Games Paris 1900. But by the final day of swimming in Paris, they had ye...
NANTERRE, France — A dozen years ago to the day, Katie Ledecky won her first Olympic gold medal. She was 15 years old, not yet a sophomore in high school, and was so far off the radar that night that reporters were not even paying attention to the wome...
NANTERRE, France — Regan Smith took silver in the women’s 200-meter backstroke Friday night, racing against another talented field. Similar to previous nights, it was a battle between Smith and Australia’s Kaylee McKeown, the current world record holde...
