USA's Katie Ledecky won gold in the women's 800m freestyle, with 8.11.04, she was 1.25 seconds ahead of Australia's Ariarne Titmus for silver and 1.96 seconds ahead of American Paige Madden.

It is her fourth consecutive victory in this discipline, her 14th Olympic medail and her ninth Olympic gold, equalling Soviet-era Larissa Latynina as the women with the most titles in the history of the Games. She had already won the 1500m and earned silver in the 4x200m freestyle relay and bronze in the 400m freestyle in Paris.

She has dominated distance swimming for more than a decade, winning her first gold medal aged 15 in the 800m free at the London Games in 2012. She repeated in Rio four years later, when her 800m triumph was part of a four-gold haul that included the 200m and 400m free. At the pandemic-delayed Tokyo Olympics, Ledecky grabbed a third straight 800m free gold and won the 1500m free. No other female swimmer has won gold at four different Olympics.

Madden was on several occasions on the verge of silver, in a tough battle with Titmus, who beat Ledecky in the 400m freestyle a week ago in the La Défense pavilion. who suffered and showed the effort, but in the last seconds managed to find the strength to finish second.

Madden was visibly thrilled to have won bronze and to be on a podium on a level with the stars McIntosh and Titmus. Both Titmus and Maiden managed to beat their own personal bests, with 'Terminator' Titmus also setting an Oceania record.

Summer McIntosh

Canada's Summer McIntosh added a new gold medal and Olympic record this afternoon at the Defende Arena in Paris.
She won the 200m individual medley in 2.06.56, 36 seconds behind silver medallist Kate Douglass of the USA and 1.52 seconds behind bronze medallist Kaylee McKeown of Australia.

It is her third gold and fourth medal in Paris Olympicis 2024, where she also broke an Olympic record on Thursday in the 200m butterfly. 

After the race, USA's Walsh was disqualified for a 90-degree body twist, almost turning herself upside down, which left her out of the medal, which went to Australia.

Three records in the mixed relay

And in the mixed 4x100 relay race, the gold went to the United States, who with 3.37.43 also scored a world record, the silver to China with 12 seconds more, and Asian record; and the bronze, 1.33 away, to Australia, who made an Olympic record.

For the United States were, in this order, men Ryan Murphy and Nic Finck, and women Gretchen Wash and Torri Huske; for China were Jiayu XU (men), Haiyang Kin (men), Yufei Zhang (women) and Junxuan Yang (women); and for Australia it was a woman, Kaylee McKeown and Mollie O'Callaghan, with men Joshua Kong and Mathew Temple in between.

Butterfly

Hungary's Kristof Milak took gold in the men's 100m butterfly final in 49.90 seconds, but the competition tasted like a bigger win for Canada as two members of the Canadian team stood on the podium: Josh Liendo, nine seconds behind, and Ilya Khariun, 55 seconds behind. 

Kristof Milak literally made waves at the Youth Olympic Games Buenos Aires 2018, where took home the men's 200m butterfly, 200m freestyle, and 400m freestyle titles, in addition to the 100m butterfly silver. Milak became a national hero at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 (in 2021) when he blasted to a two-second victory in the 200m butterfly title to complete his medal collection.