How many wins can Katie Ledecky register at the U.S. Olympic trials? A look into the star swimmer's road to Paris Olympics

Katie Ledecky, who has clinched seven Olympic gold medals throughout her career, will be targeting her fourth appearance in the quadrennial Games at the 2024 Paris Olympics. Ledecky will be participating in the 2024 U.S. Olympics Swimming Team trials to secure her spot in the USA’s roster for the Paris Olympics.

Renowned as the most decorated female swimmer of all time, Ledecky is set to swim in four events in the women’s 200m, 400m, 800m, and 1500m freestyle at the U.S. Olympic Trials. The 27-year-old is likely to win all four aforementioned events at the 2024 U.S. Olympic Swimming Trials as she enters each race with the best times in this competition year among all the other U.S. athletes.

Additionally, Katie Ledecky also holds the world record in the women’s 800m and 1500m freestyle, clocking times of 8:04.79 and 15:20.48 at the 2016 Rio Olympics and 2018 TYR Pro Swim Series in Indianapolis. This makes her the pre-race favorite in these two events in the U.S. Olympic Swimming Trials, which will be held at Lucas Oil Stadium, a football stadium converted into a swimming pool for the occasion.

So far, in the year 2024, Ledecky has featured in two TYR Pro Swim Series in Knoxville and San Antonio. In Knoxville, she topped the 1500m, 800m, and 400m freestyle and finished second in the 400m individual medley. At the last Pro Swim Series in San Antonio, she came in first position in the 400m and 800m freestyle events and finished second in the 200m freestyle.

Her last competition was the 2024 Atlanta Classic where she bagged the top places in the 200m, 400m, 800m, and 1500m freestyle, thus displaying her dominance yet again in the events. There, she registered times of 1:55.71, 3:59.44, 8:12.95, and 15:38.25, respectively.

Katie Ledecky’s performance at the 2020 Olympic Swimming Team Trials

Katie Ledecky of Team USA poses with her two Gold and two Silver medals after a giving a press conference to the media during the Tokyo Olympic Games on July 31, 2021 in Tokyo, Japan. (Photo by Laurence Griffiths/Getty Images)

Katie Ledecky won all four freestyle events, including the 200m, 400m, 800m, and 1500m, at the 2020 Olympic Swimming Team Trials in Omaha which were postponed to 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Ledecky swam times of 1:55.11, 4:01.27, 8:14.62, and 15:40.50 in the aforementioned events, respectively, to earn her position in the USA’s squad at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.

She went on to win four medals at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, including two golds in the individual 800m and 1500m freestyle races, and silver medals in the 400m freestyle and 4x200m freestyle relay discipline.