Can Douglass surpass Phelps in the most number of 8 medals in a Single Olympic ?

Pool Swimming action will start on February 11th at the 2024 World Aquatics Championships, here is One US swimmer to watch at the pool event. This event may be a rehearsal for a lot of swimmers for the upcoming Paris Olympics, in 2024.

KATE DOUGLASS, IS A 2021 OLYMPIC MEDALIST, WORLD CHAMPION, AND MULTIPLE NCAA CHAMPION IN COMPETITIVE SWIMMING WHO REPRESENTS THE UNITED STATES INTERNATIONALLY.

Can Douglass surpass most Olympic Medal records at a single Olympic or not? sign of this versatile swimmer may be seen at the Doha World Championship.
As a 2018-19 U.S. National Junior Team member, Douglass competed at the 2018 Youth Olympic Games in Argentina and the 2017 Junior World Championships in Indianapolis. As an age grouper, she set the U.S. Swimming National 13-14 and 15-16 Age Group Record for the 50 free. Douglass held the New York high school state records in the 50 and 100 freestyle and qualified for the 2016 U.S. Olympic Trails in the 50 free, 100 and 200 breast, and 200 IM.
Douglass kept her momentum rolling into her senior season at UVA. In a three-person suited time trial at the 2023 Cavalier Invite, Kate Douglass broke the US Open and American record in the 200 breast for the third time in her career, going a 2:01.43. Before that, the record was 2:01.87, a time that Douglass swam this season at the 2022 Tennessee Invite.
At the ACC championships, Douglass once again made it a clean sweep as she went undefeated in individual and relay events. She helped the UVA women break NCAA and US Open records in the 200 medley (1:31.73, 20.49 free), 200 free (1:23.87, 20.95 lead-off), 400 medley (3:21.80, 48.25 fly split, fastest all-time), and 400 free (3:06.83, 46.35 split) relays. Individually, she won the 200 IM (1:50.14, #2 performer all-time), 100 fly (48.84, NCAA record), and 100 free (45.86, #3 performer all-time).
Going into her last NCAA Championships, there was a lot of expectation on Douglass. And she blew it out of the water. On night 1, she helped UVA to a title and NCAA record in the 200 medley relay (1:31.51), anchoring in 20.34. On Night 2, she started things with a dominant performance in the 200 IM, breaking her teammate Alex Walsh’s NCAA record in the event by nearly 2 seconds and clocking a 1:48.37. She then led off UVA’s 200 free relay in 21.01 to help them secure another title.
Night 3 led to another NCAA record for Douglass, this time in the 100 fly, where she touched at 48.46, just .05 ahead of LSU’s MAggie MacNeil, marking the fastest 2 performances ever in the event. She split 48.94 on UVA’s relay later that night to help them win the 400-medley relay title. On the final night, Douglass won the 200 breasts in a new NCAA record of 2:01.29 before UVA crushed their own 400 free relay NCAA record in 3:05.84, leading off in 46.37.
2021 OLYMPIC TRIALS
In Omaha, Kate Douglass qualified for her first Olympic Games in the 200 IM, touching 2nd in 2:09.32, just .02 behind her UVA teammate Alex Walsh. Douglass also went PB in the 100 fly (56.56, 3rd) and 100 free (54.14 in semi-finals, 7th with 54.17), and placed 6th in the 50 free (24.78).
2020 OLYMPIC GAMES
Douglass started off her first Olympic Games strong in the prelims of the 200 IM, posting a lifetime best of 2:09.16 to claim the first seed heading into the semi-finals. In the final, Douglass came from behind in the final 50, passing much of the field to touch for 3rd behind Japan’s Yui Ohashi and her UVA and USA teammate, Alex Walsh.
2021 SHORT COURSE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS (ABU DHABI, UAE)
Douglass continued her successful international year in 2021 in the UAE, earning another 200 IM bronze, this time in SCM. She also helped the US women to gold in the 200 and 400 free relays and swam in the prelims of the 200 medley and mixed 200 medley relays that would go on to earn silver.
2022 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP TRIALS
On night 1 in Greensboro, Douglass qualified for her first LCM World Champs team, placing 5th in the 100 free. on Night 2, she made her first individual, placing 2nd in the 200 breast (2:21.43) in a huge PB, touching only behind Lilly King.
2022 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS
Douglass started her meet in the first session, swimming heats of the 4×100 free relay, leading off in 54.19 to help the USA get into the final. They went on to finish 3rd in the final, netting Douglass a bronze medal.
Douglass was back in the pool on day 5, swimming in the prelims and semis of the 200 breast and making the final. On day 6 in that final, Douglass swam a strong race and once again earned herself a bronze medal, finishing 3rd in 2:23.20.
2022 SHORT COURSE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS
Douglass had her best international showing in Melbourne yet, walking away with 5 gold and 2 silver. Individually, she won the 200 breast (2:15.77, championship record) and 200 IM (2:02.12, American record). She also helped USA to gold in the 4×50 free, 4×100 medley and mixed 4×50 medley relays, while earning silver as a part of USA’s 4×50 medley and 4×100 free relays.
2023 U.S. INTERNATIONAL TEAM TRIALS (INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA)
On the 1st morning of Trials. Douglass had a fantastic morning swim in the 100 free, posting 52.98 to drop more than a second off her lifetime best and become just the 27th woman under 53 seconds in the event. The swim puts her in the conversation for more than just a relay spot on the Worlds roster as she faces off against an on-form Abbey Weitzeil right next to her in the center lanes. In the final, Douglass found a new level with a stunning 52.57 100. She stormed past the field on her back half to take the title and qualify individually for Fukuoka.
In the 200 breast the next day, she crushed the prelims field with a 2:23.87 for the top seed. In the final, Lily King blew away the field in the first 50 but Douglass reeled her into only .27 seconds at the finish with a personal best of 2:21.22 for 2nd. The swim was the 4th fastest in the world.
Douglass finished 3rd in the 100 fly with a PB of 56.43 behind Gretchen Walsh and Torri Huske.
Douglass took on the 200 IM/50 free double on day 5. She made the A finals of both with a personal best of 2:08.29 and 24.57 respectively. The IM time made her the 3rd fastest American ever. In the finals, Douglass broke the US Open Record previously held by Alex Walsh (who finished 2nd in the race with a speedy 2:07.89) as Douglass swam a 2:07.09 in the 200 IM to win the event. Douglass now becomes the second fastest American all-time in the event and the sixth fastest performer in the world ever. She wrapped up her double with a slightly faster than prelims 24.48 in the 50 free to tie for 3rd with Olivia Smoliga.
2023 World Aquatics Championships (Fukuoka, Japan)
Douglass opened her meet by leading the 200 IM prelims with a 2:09.17. She laid off it in semis with a 2:10.38 as she had the 400 free relays final later in the session. On that relay, she crushed a 52.28 anchor to pass China for the silver. In the 200 IM final the next night, Douglass was just off her best time with a 2:07.17 to take the gold. Ash she has been known to do, she stormed home over the back half with the fastest breast (36.17) and free (29.83) splits in the field.
On the 400 free relay, Douglass anchored in 52.28 to help the American team earn a sliver, 3.97 seconds back from the Aussies. On the mixed 400 medley, she anchored in 51.79, the 2nd fastest female anchor, for bronze. The 51.79 represents the fastest relay split an American has ever produced, undercutting Simone Manuel’s 51.86 from the 2019 Worlds.
In one of the stranger doubles possible, Douglass took on all three rounds of the 100 free and 200 breast in the same session. she was 2:21.99 for 3rd. In the day 6 finals, Douglass nearly pulled off a double medal haul but she was 52.81 for 4th in the 100 free, just .1 off the podium. In the 200 breast final, she got bronze in 2:21.99. Both times were off her PBs.
Douglass kept up her relay duties with a 52.42 anchor to help the US get silver in the mixed 400 free relay. She later anchored the 400 medley relay in 52.41 and helped them claim gold. Douglass ended the meet with a stunning 6 medals, tied for the most medals (regardless of color) with Mollie O’Callaghan and 8th in traditional medal rankings.

Douglass’s new entry at 100 Breasts is an event to watch, where she is scheduled to race with Ruta Meiluyte. She finished sub 2;20 first time at the pro swim series held, in January. Can she break the world record in 200 breasts set by Russia’s Evgeniia Chikunova In 2:17.55?
In Paris also she competed in 50 free, 100 breast, 200 breast, 200 IM, and 100 free individually. She produced a sub-52 relay spill in last year’s world championship. That; ‘s why she may have more potential to win an individual medal in 100 free also.
The Doha World Championship is a rehearsal of Douglass for the Paris Olympics. Another question may be in chat after the world championship can see surpassed Mark Spitz and Michael Phelps to win the most medals in a single Olympics.
Spliltz won 7 medals at the 2072 Olympics. Phelps won 8 medals in the 2004 Athens Olympics and 2008 Beijing Olympic.