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Katie Ledecky 2024 Olympics Odds: Will The US Swimmer Win Gold In Paris 2024?
No swimmer has been a bigger star in the past few Olympiads than Maryland’s own Katie Ledecky. The 2024 Paris Olympics are another chance for her to shine.
Ledecky was born in Washington, D.C. and raised in Bethesda, Maryland, so she’ll draw a lot of Maryland sports betting interest at this summer’s Paris Games. In previous Olympics, she has won freestyle gold at 200, 400, 800 and 1500 meters.
BetMaryland.com created these odds for how she’ll do in her best events.
Katie Ledecky 400 Free Odds
Katie Ledecky, 27, won one Olympic gold medal in the 400 freestyle, at the Rio Games in 2016. She also took home a silver medal in the event at the 2020 Tokyo Games (which actually took place in 2021 because of COVID-19). In Tokyo she lost to Australia’s Ariarne Titmus by less than a second in the final.
For 2024, Ledecky already raced in the 400 free final and earned a bronze medal. Titmus succeeded in winning consecutive gold medals in the event, on July 27, with Canada's Summer McIntosh earning the silver. But that's only the start of the Katie Ledecky story at the 2024 Summer Games; she has more events coming for wagering at Maryland sportsbook apps and for the history books.
Katie Ledecky 800 Free Odds
Finish | Odds | Percentage Chance |
Gold | -900 | 90.0% |
Silver | +1000 | 9.1% |
Bronze | +12500 | 0.8% |
No Place | +100000 | 0.1% |
The 800 free is perhaps Ledecky’s most dominant event at the Olympics, which is saying something.
The Maryland swimmer has won the past three gold medals in this event. Her time of 8 minutes, 12.57 seconds in 2020 was more than a second ahead of Titmus. Ledecky was undefeated in 800 free finals in competition for 13 years, until Canada’s Summer McIntosh beat the American at the Zone South Sectionals in Orlando in February 2024.
Ledecky set the world record at 8:04.79 with her Olympic victory in 2016 and that mark still stands. We give her -900 odds of making it four gold medals in a row at the 800-meter distance. Heat races are on Aug. 2 with the final on Aug. 3.
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Katie Ledecky 1500 Free Odds
On the other hand, perhaps the 1500 free is Ledecky’s best event.
In Tokyo, she outlasted fellow American Erica Sullivan by more than 4 seconds, with a time of 15:37.34, as the women’s 1500 free made its Olympic debut. Ledecky also holds the world record, set in 2018, in a time of 15:20.48.
She was a -2500 favorite on our odds board to repeat in Paris and she did just that on July 31 in the final. Ledecky easily outpaced the competition again, beating silver medalist Anastasiia Kirpichnikova of France by more than 10 seconds and breaking her own Olympic record with a time of 15:30.02.
Ledecky now has 12 career Olympic medals (eight gold, including one in the 4x200 free relay in 2016, and three silver) to tie the all-time Olympic record for a female swimmer. Jenny Thompson won eight golds, three silvers and one bronze medal in her career, the exact same Olympic resume as Ledecky before the 800 free final. Two other female American swimmers, Natalie Coughlin and Dara Torres, also earned 12 career Olympic medals.
We lean toward Ledecky breaking all of those records in France, cementing her argument as the greatest female swimmer – American or otherwise – in history. And it all started in the Old Line State, where BetMaryland.com offers the best Maryland sports betting promos available.
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Katie Ledecky Q&As
Yes, Katie Ledecky is competing in the 2024 Paris Games. At June’s U.S. Olympic Swimming Trials in Indianapolis, Ledecky qualified to represent Team USA. She raced in the 400-meter freestyle, earning a bronze medal, and she has the 800 and 1500 free ahead. She also qualified for the 4x200 freestyle relay at the Olympics; that race is Aug. 1.
Katie Ledecky won 10 Olympic medals prior to the Paris 2024 Olympics, 7 of which are gold. Ledecky won 1 gold medal in London 2012, 4 gold medals in Rio de Janeiro 2016 and 2 gold medals in Tokyo 2020.
Katie Ledecky was born in Washington, D.C. and was raised in the suburb of Bethesda, Maryland. Ledecky continued to grow up and swim in Maryland until she eventually attended Stanford University.
Ledecky and Baltimore’s Michael Phelps are often compared because they’re both successful American swimmers, but it is hard to compare the athletes. For reference, Katie Ledecky’s personal best in the 200 freestyle is 1:53.73, while Michael Phelps’ personal best is 1:42.78. Phelps set every Olympic career record, including most total medals (28) and most golds (23) in any sport.
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