![]() ![]() ![]() The Stanford graduate swam 2,100 meters in all on Monday. ![]() Earlier, she earned a silver medal in the 400 free. Katie Ledecky finished off a busy day at the Tokyo Olympics, qualifying fastest for the women’s 1,500-meter freestyle and in the 200 free. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)ĬLICK HERE if you’re viewing on a mobile device. Lydia Jacoby does the butterfly during the 200-yard IM race at the 2019 Alaska state high school championships at Bartlett High.Katie Ledecky Katie Ledecky, of the United States, reacts following her swim in a heat of the women’s 1500-meter freestyle at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Monday, July 26, 2021, in Tokyo, Japan. The Alaska high school record for boys is 56.40. Jacoby’s gold-medal time of 1:04.95 converts to a 100-yard time of 56.71. That translates to a time of 1:09.28 for 100 meters. (She also won the 200 IM as a freshman in 2018).Īs a 15-year-old Seward High sophomore at the 2019 state championships, Jacoby set the existing state record with a time of 1:00.61. She broke the state high school record for the 100-yard breaststroke as a freshman and again as a sophomore. Jacoby, 17, has been a phenom in the breaststroke for years. “A lot of kids are able to compete with her in other strokes.” “She’s super-human in breaststroke,” said Jodi McLaughlin, a swim official from Anchorage. Both finished ahead of Jacoby in the 200-yard individual medley at the Alaska high school state championships in 2019. Just ask Madison Story of Homer and Dreamer Kowatch of Dimond High. She’s a mere mortal when swimming something other than the breaststroke. "Too fast to freeze," reads a sign displayed by Seward resident Sarah Spanos. It helped her increase her strength training during the pandemic. She has a homemade squat cage in the family garage, said her dad, Rich Jacoby. Lydia Jacoby of the United States swims in the final of the women's 100-meter breaststroke at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Tuesday, July 27, 2021, in Tokyo, Japan. The pool became famous by association because it’s the only Olympic-sized pool in Alaska - a fact that fascinated fans and media. She’s using her new-found fame to promote a fundraising campaign for new starting blocks for the Bartlett High pool. team huddles after finishing a close second in the women's medley relay race Saturday in Japan. ![]() 13 behind the winning team from Australia. 08 of a second slower than the gold medalist in the super-G, and Jacoby and her women’s medley relay team were. Moe and Jacoby also lost gold medals by excruciatingly small margins. Jacoby won the 100-meter breaststroke by. Randall and Minnesota’s Jessie Diggins won the women’s team sprint at the 2018 Winter Olympics by. Moe won by the slimmest margin, taking the downhill championship by a margin of. Their combined winning margin in three races? One half of a second. Jacoby, Moe and cross-country skier Kikkan Randall are the only Alaska-raised athletes to win individual Olympic gold, and each won dramatically. Moe, an alpine skier from Girdwood, won gold in the downhill and silver in the super-G at the 1994 Winter Olympics. She joins Tommy Moe as the only Alaskan to win two medals at one Olympics. Lydia Jacoby reacts after winning gold in the 100-meter breaststroke. It reconsidered nearly two years later and put everyone on the same pay scale, retroactive to the 2016 Winter Paralympics.įor Anchorage sit-skier Andrew Kurka, who won gold and silver in Pyeongchang, the pay raise was worth $47,250. The USOPC gave athletes a big raise in December 2016 after the Rio Olympics, although it initially offered the increase only to Olympians, not Paralympians. The prize money for Jacoby’s relay silver will be split among eight swimmers - the four who swam in the prelims and the four who swam in the finals. Olympic and Paralympic Committee pays athletes $37,500 for gold, $22,500 for silver and $15,000 for bronze. Jacoby earned $37,500 for her gold medal in the 100-meter breaststroke and $2,812.50 for her share of the silver medal in the women’s 400-meter medley relay. She’s $40,312.50 richer than she was before the Olympics. team’s silver medal performance Saturday in the women’s 400-meter medley relay, we decided to pass along five more:ġ. After she won a gold medal last week in the 100-meter breaststroke, we wrote 10 things to know about her. Lydia Jacoby of Seward is the first Alaskan to swim in the Olympics. Gold medalist Lydia Jacoby of the United States celebrates on the podium after the final of the women's 100-meter breaststroke at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Tuesday, July 27, 2021, in Tokyo, Japan.(AP Photo/Matthias Schrader) ![]()
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