If Katie Ledecky adds the 100m freestyle to her schedule at the Olympic trials next summer in Omaha, Neb., she will join a select group of women to swim the 100m, 200m, 400m and 800m freestyles in trials history.
However, no U.S. women have contested those four events at a single Olympics.
The 800m freestyle was not introduced for women until the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City. At that year’s trials, five women swam each freestyle event (the 50m free wasn’t added until 1988): Eadie Wetzel, Linda Gustavson, Anne Fraser, Pamela Kruse and Debbie Meyer.