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Pelham Swimmer Kate Douglass Brings Home The Gold In 200M Breaststroke
The Westchester swimmer, who attends the University of Virginia, already has a silver medal from the Paris games.
![Kate Douglass of the U.S., celebrates after winning the women's 200-meter breaststroke final at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Nanterre, France, Thursday Aug. 1, 2024.](https://patch.com/img/cdn20/ap/24856073/20240801/051641/styles/patch_image/public/ap24214714794612___01171334364.jpg)
PELHAM, NY — Pelham's Kate Douglass has earned a gold medal at the 2024 Olympic Games to accompany the silver medal she already won at this year's games in Paris.
She won her firs- ever Olympic gold medal today in the 200-meter breaststroke. The Team USA swimmer won a silver medal with the 4x100-meter freestyle team.
Douglass won the bronze medal in the 200-meter individual medley at the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics.
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Douglass credited her teammates with inspiring her to achieve her Olympic dreams.
"We all feed off each others’ successes," Douglass told the Associated Press. "It’s just showing that there’s a great future for U.S. swimming out there."
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The two-time Olympian graduated from Pelham Memorial High School and is now at the University of Virginia.
Here's a bit of her swimmer bio, from Team USA:
- 2-time Olympian
- 3-time Olympic medalist (1 gold, 1 silver, 1 bronze)
Olympic Games Paris 2024
- gold (200m Breaststroke - Women)
- silver (4 x 100m Freestyle Relay - Women)
Olympic Games Tokyo 2020
- bronze (200m Individual Medley - Women)
MOST RECENT WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS EXPERIENCE:
- gold (200m Individual Medley - Women, 4 x 100m Medley Relay - Women)
- silver (200m Breaststroke - Women, 4 x 100m Freestyle Relay - Mixed, 4 x 100m Freestyle Relay - Women)
- bronze (4 x 100m Medley Relay - Mixed), 4th (100m Freestyle - Women)
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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