Lydia Jacoby

Lydia Jacoby

Lydia Alice Jacoby (born February 29, 2004) is an American professional swimmer. She was the first Alaskan to qualify for an Olympic Games in swimming, competing at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo in 2021, where she won the gold medal in the 100-meter breaststroke with a time of 1:04.95, which was the fastest time ever achieved by a female American swimmer in the event in the 17–18 age group. Later in the year, she was the overall highest scoring female American competitor at the 2021 FINA Swimming World Cup. In 2022, she became the fastest female American swimmer in history in the 100-yard breaststroke for the 17–18 age group with a national age group record time of 57.54 seconds. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2024). Lydia Jacoby is the 813th most popular swimmer (down from 754th in 2024), the 21,427th most popular biography from United States (down from 20,273rd in 2019) and the 191st most popular American Swimmer.