Bethesda Native Katie Ledecky Wins 800m Freestyle, 2nd Gold In Tokyo Olympics

TOKYO (WJZ) — Katie Ledecky won her 2nd golden successful the Tokyo Olympics Saturday morning, Friday nighttime for those connected the eastbound seashore of America, wherever Ledecky calls home.

The Bethesda autochthonal won the 800m freestyle. She won the 1500m freestyle earlier this week and is besides taking location 2 metallic medals.

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Ledecky was pushed hard by Australian rival Ariarne Titmus.

Ledecky finished up with 2 golds, 2 metallic and a fifth-place decorativeness astatine the Tokyo Aquatics Centre — not arsenic palmy arsenic she was 5 years agone successful Rio de Janeiro, but not atrocious astatine all.

Ledecky became the archetypal pistillate swimmer to seizure six idiosyncratic golden medals with her 3rd consecutive Olympic title in the 800 free.

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She led each the mode successful a contention she hasn’t mislaid since 2010, winning with a clip of 8 minutes, 12.57 seconds.

Titmus closed beardown to assertion the metallic successful 8:13.83, portion the bronze went to Italy’s Simona Quadarella successful 8:18.35.

Ledecky mislaid her archetypal 2 idiosyncratic matchups with Titmus, but yet bushed the Terminator successful their last showdown.

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