Katie Ledecky won three individual gold medals in the 2016 Olympics for swimming. Which famous swimmer did the same when she was 16-years-old?
Debbie Meyer Deborah Elizabeth Meyer (born August 14, 1952), also known by her married name Deborah Weber, is an American former competition swimmer, a three-time Olympic champion, and a former world record-holder in four events. Meyer won the 200-, 400-, and 800-meter freestyle swimming races in the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City. While she was still a 16-year-old student at Rio Americano High School in Sacramento, California, she became the first swimmer to win three individual gold medals in one Olympics, winning the 200-, 400-, and 800-meter freestyle swimming races. Katie Ledecky is the only other female swimmer to have done the same, in the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio.
Krisztina Egerszegi Krisztina Egerszegi (] ; born 16 August 1974) is a Hungarian former world record holding swimmer and one of the greatest Hungarian Olympic champions of the modern era. She is a three-time Olympian (1988, 1992 and 1996) and five time Olympic champion; and one of three individuals (Dawn Fraser and Michael Phelps being the other two) to have ever won the same swimming event at three consecutive Summer Olympics. She is the most successful and greatest individual female swimmer ever, having won five individual Olympic gold medals, the only female swimmer to do so. Katie Ledecky of the United States matched her total of 5 Olympic gold medals, winning 1 individual gold in London 2012, 3 individual ones and one team gold in Rio in 2016.