Katie Ledecky Wins Gold In 1500 Meter Swim, Sends Twitter Into Frenzy

Dying, taxes and Katie Ledecky dominating her competitors.

The Olympic swimmer added to her gold medal assortment Tuesday evening when she grew to become the first-ever gold medalist within the girls’s 1500 meter freestyle. Erica Sullivan, additionally of the US, claimed silver.

Ledecky, 24, now has six gold medals complete.

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Her efficiency was unimaginable, to say the least, and Twitter went nuts when she and Sullivan formally completed the race to cement their place in Olympics historical past.

THE UNITED STATES GOES 1-2 IN THE FIRST-EVER WOMEN’S 1500 FREESTYLE AT THE OLYMPIC GAMES!!!! Katie Ledecky takes the gold in 15:37.34 and Erica Sullivan takes the silver.

— Kyle Sockwell (@kylesockwell) July 28, 2021

KATIE LEDECKY!!!! ERICA SULLIVAN!!! WHAT A RACE!!!! Price each single second of these quarter-hour!!!

— nat (@packer_nat12) July 28, 2021

Katie Ledecky, the QUEEN of distance swimming, and Erica Sullivan go one-two to take the gold and silver within the first ever girls’s 1500 free olympic remaining👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

— Ross Anthony (@Ross_Swim14) July 28, 2021

{That a} approach #TeamUSA girls go 1-2 within the first ever 1500m within the #Olympics. Congrats @katieledecky and Erica Sullivan! Love listening to Katie give props to the ladies who paved the way in which within the pool years earlier than!

— Shannon Hogan (@Shannon_Hogan) July 28, 2021