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5'9"
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Evansville, IN
Indiana University
Specialty: Breaststroke
Lilly King is an American breaststroke swimmer, an Olympic gold medalist and world record holder.
King's senior career has been marked by consistent excellence and numerous record-breaking performances. Her dominance in breaststroke events has made her a cornerstone of the U.S. national swimming team.
King was born to a family of swimmers. She is known for her outspoken personality and advocacy for clean sport. Outside of swimming, King enjoys spending time with her family and has been involved in various charitable causes.
If the women of Team USA were their own country at the Olympic Games, they would have placed third. This summer they won 67 Olympic medals and 56 Paralympic medals. Here are just some of the record-breaking, streak-extending, and best-ever performances...
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...
Regan Smith, Torri Huske, Lilly King and Gretchen Walsh team up to win gold and set a new world record in the women's...
Kate Douglass speaks on how it feels to be competing in Lucas Oil Stadium during the 2024 U.S. Olympic Team Trials - ...
Kate Douglass and Lilly King book their tickets to Paris 2024 for the women's 200-meter breaststroke during the 2024 ...
Indiana's own Lilly King gets engaged during the 2024 U.S. Olympic Team Trials - Swimming Presented by Lilly on June ...
Team USA has historically dominated Olympic swimming. Since the dawn of the Modern Games, U.S. swimmers have won 606 Olympic medals, 265 of them gold. That number is just under 22 percent of all gold medals won by U.S. athletes in both Summer and Winte...
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...
