Ledecky breaks record in fourth win

Katie Ledecky completely smashed the world record to take the gold, finishing an incredible 12 seconds ahead of everyone else in the water.

Phelps earned his 22 career gold medal in the 200 meter individual medley. I’m finally believing in myself and stick to the race plan.

He has an excellent chance to secure his 23rd gold medal in the 100-meter butterfly on Friday. Meyers took the 200, 400 and 800 at Mexico City in 1968.

American swimmer Katie Ledecky won the women’s 800-meter freestyle final on Friday night, setting a world record while capturing her fourth gold of the Rio Olympics.

This is the first tie for a gold medal since Anthony Ervin and Gary Hall Jr. did it in the 50 free in Sydney in 2000.

“I hit all my goals right on the nose this week”, Ledecky said.

Ledecky’s winning time of 8:04.79 also took almost two seconds off the world record she’d last set in January, and almost eight seconds off the Olympic record she’d set in her heat Thursday morning.

Then she waited for the rest of the field finish.

While Ledecky, at 19, is the youngest member of the US team, Ervin is the oldest at 35.

Some 23 seconds after Ledecky touched the wall, the last of the eight finalists chugged to the end of the grueling race.

Jazmin Carlin of Great Britain won the silver and Boglarka Kapas of Hungary won the bronze.

Ledecky was barely breathing hard. Not only is she the defending Olympic champion in the event, she holds world and Olympic records.

The United States had blown away opponents throughout its pre-Olympics schedule and during the first two games of the Rio tournament before it ran into an Australian team that featured National Basketball Association players Patty Mills, Matthew Dellavedova and Andrew Bogut.

Turns out, it was swimming all along.

DiRado’s upset denied Hosszu a fourth gold in Rio, and capped off a remarkable one-and-done Olympics for the American.

It has been a hugely eventful Olympic judo competition which included the first Olympic medal for Kosovo and some inspirational performances from two Congolese refugee judokas. “I tried to keep it all under control, but there’s been a lot of tears these last 24 hours”.