News about Katie Ledecky

Ariarne Titmus, an Olympic gold medalist, has talked about her cancer scare as she modelled Australia's uniform for the forthcoming Olympic Games in Paris. In the 200m and 400m freestyle at Tokyo's postponed 2021 Games, the Australians captured gold, besting American rival Katie Ledecky and winning silver in the 800m. Since then, Summer McIntosh has appeared, although Titmus regained the 400m world record from last year to set up a tense three-way rivalry in the Paris pool from July.

Iona Anderson (pictured left) of Australia has won silver in the women's 100m backstroke at the World Aquatics Championships in Doha, finishing second in a teenage march led by Claire Curzan. Jaclyn Barclay, a year her junior at 17. Anderson (right) set a personal record, tagging 59.12 seconds behind a mighty Curzan (58.29), who is just 19 years old.

Ariarne Titmus, the Australian Olympic swimming champion, had intended to face her biggest challenge to date in private, but she was forced to have surgery following a cancer scare. In August, the golden girl had an operation to remove tumors but hasn't disclosed anything about her ordeal.

Kyle Chalmers, the world's fastest 100m freestyler, has slammed a USA network's assertion that their country has the best swimming team after Australia's historic World Championships. He and a handful of others from the Dolphins' swimming team have a reason to come out swinging against NBC, who said that the USA swim team beat the Japanese swimming team in Fukuoka, Japan. With 13 gold medals already in the bag, the Aussies have an unassailable lead at the top of the medal table, which is a sure-fire way to monitor progress.

Katie Ledecky is one of the top freestyle swimmers in the history of the sport: she is never content. On Saturday, the 26-year-old American won the 800-meter freestyle at the world championships, becoming the first swimmer to win six gold medals in the same event at worlds. It was also her 16th individual world title, putting a tie with Michael Phelps for the most golds at worlds. She has also been a seven-time Olympic gold medalist and a world record holder in both the 800 and 1,500.

While winning three more gold medals to equal the nation's highest haul at a world championships, Australian swimmers have set another world record. Cameron McEvoy became Australia's oldest world champion and Kaylee McKeown led to a rare golden backstroke sweep.

Kaylee McKeown has never had such nerves before winning Australia's fifth gold medal at the world championships in Japan. McKeown's 100 meters backstroke triumph in Fukuoka on Tuesday night came after she was disqualified from the 200m individual medley semi-finals. McKeown staggered herself for the backstroke after railing against what she described as a "completely unfair" verdict in the medley.

Ariarne Titmus of Australia has won the women's 400 meters freestyle world record with a dramatic win at the world championships in Japan. In Sunday night's tense final in Fukuoka, Titmus blew away feted adversaries Summer McIntosh from Canada and American great Katie Ledecky. McIntosh led the Australian clock to three minutes 53.8 seconds, beating McIntosh's world record of 3:56.08 set last March.

Ariarne Titmus, Australia's pool queen, has discovered a new way to lift her swim results at the National Championships with a simple household item (left). On Tuesday night, the 22-year-old won the 400m freestyle by more than four seconds at the Melbourne Sports and Aquatic Centre, securing her spot at the forthcoming World Championships in Japan in a thrilling time of 3:58.47. And it was all down to a very basic household appliance.

Summer McIntosh, a sixteen-year-old boy from Canada, set a new world record in the women's 400 meters freestyle on Tuesday night. McIntosh finished in 3 minutes, 56.08 seconds, beating the record of 3:56.40 set last year by Australia's Ariarne Titmus in the Canadian swimming trials at the Pan Am Sports Centre in Toronto. At the 2017 world championships in Budapest, it was the first long-course world record for a Canadian swimmer since Kylie Masse in the 100 backstroke. McIntosh also shaved more than 3 seconds from her previous national record of 3:59.32.

Summer McIntosh is a holiday that takes place in the United States. On Friday, the 16-year-old snapped Katie Ledecky's nine-year winning streak in the United States came to an end. At a Pro Series swim meet in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, the Canadian teenager came in first in the 200 meters freestyle, inflicting his first loss in America since 2014. McIntosh set a winning time of one minute, 54.13 seconds at the world championships last year, a step behind Ledecky in a time of record.

Katie Ledecky, the American swimming sensation, has been named 2022 Associated Press Female Athlete of the Year, edging out track star Sydney McLaughlin to win for the second time in her career. After last summer's Tokyo Olympics, the American swimmer put on another stellar showing at the world championships and set two world records along the way. She has now been capped 2022 with the top accolade, chosen by a panel of 40 sports writers and editors from news agencies around the country.

The 10-time Olympic champion, who won her first gold medal in London 2012, finished in 15:08.24, almost ten seconds off the previous record set by Sarah Wellbrock (15:18.01) in 2019. As she finished 40 seconds ahead of second place Beatriz Dizotti, Brazil, the former Stanford swimmer was in a league of her own from the get-goal. She swam at such a fast pace that she just about broke the 800m world record halfway into the season, with a time of 8:00.58, just a second behind the 7:59.00 mark.