By Ben ShpigelJames Hill and Karen Hanley

From Stockholm to Seoul, Rome to Paris, every Summer Olympics since 1912 has included women’s swimming, and of all the hundreds of entrants over that period, from dozens of nations, no one has won more medals than Kathleen Genevieve Ledecky of Bethesda, Md.

ImageCredit...Karen Hanley/The New York Times Women’s 4×200m Freestyle Relay Final › 200m 400m 600m 800m Total

Gold

Australia 1:53.52 1:55.61 1:56.00 1:52.95 7:38.08 OR

Silver

United States 1:54.88 1:55.65 1:54.93 1:55.40 7:40.86

+2.78

Bronze

China 1:54.52 1:55.05 1:57.45 1:55.32 7:42.34

+4.26

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