2024 Golden Goggles at a Glance: Female Race of the Year
The 2024 Golden Goggle Awards are set to take place in Indianapolis, Indiana on Saturday, November 23, 2024. With the voting deadline of October 17 quickly approaching, here is the breakdown of the nominees for this year's Female Race of the Year award:
Kate Douglass, 200m breaststroke
Douglass won 200m breaststroke gold in dominant fashion, going 2:19.24 to set a new American Record and win the event by 0.4 seconds. She is now the fourth American woman in history to win Olympic gold in the event, while the time is good for the sixth-fastest swim in history.
Torri Huske, 100m butterfly
Huske’s back-half surge in the women’s 100m butterfly captured the first individual gold for the United States in Paris. The medal was Huske’s first individual Olympic medal of her career, and it made her just the second American since 2000 to win individual gold in the event.
Katie Ledecky, 1500m freestyle
Ledecky once again showed her dominance in the 1500m freestyle, going 15:30.02 to win her second Olympic gold in the event. She finished 10 seconds ahead of the field, and her time was good for an Olympic record, knocking 7.32 seconds off her record-setting swim from Tokyo.
*Please cast your vote by October 17 at 11:59 p.m. MT.
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