USA Swimming has announced its four captains for the 2024 Paris Olympics.
Katie Ledecky and Abbey Weitzeil were selected as the women’s team’s captains, while Ryan Murphy and Nic Fink were tabbed as captains for the men’s team, USA Swimming announced.
Ledecky is headed to her fourth Olympics. She qualified in the 200 freestyle, 400 freestyle, 800 freestyle and 1500 freestyle. She has opted out of the individual 200 freestyle, and will likely swim on the 800 free relay and perhaps more.
Ledecky is an individual Olympic freestyle champion over four distances—200, 400, 800 and 1500. She has 10 total 0lympc medals between the Games of 2012, 2016 and 2020 – just two total medals away from the Olympic record for U.S. women held by Natalie Coughlin, Jenny Thompson and Dara Torres.
Weitzeil is headed to her third Olympic games. She qualified for Paris as a relay swimmer on the 400 free relay. She has been a mainstay of U.S. sprinting. The past two Olympics, she qualified in the 50 and 100 freestyles and was part of multiple medal winning relays.
Murphy is making his third Olympic trip. In the 100 back, he held the world record for six years, and in 2023, the Olympic gold medalist captured the one accomplishment missing on his résumé with a world title in the 200 backstroke.
Fink is headed to his second Olympics after qualifying in the 100 breaststroke. He has been in the medal mix the past four-plus years in the breaststroke events and, like Murphy, will be a boost to the U.S. medley relay in Paris.
