Caeleb Dressel leads all members of the 2024 US Olympic Swim Team with 647,000+ followers on Instagram. Follow him and the rest of the team here. Archive photo via Jack Spitser/Spitser Photography
48 swimmers (pool + open water) will represent the U.S. at the Paris 2024 Summer Olympic Games starting on July 27. Besides the NBC coverage of the meet and all of the coverage we’re going to do here at SwimSwam, follow the athletes’ social media accounts directly is a great way to get a deeper look into the their preparations, both in the pool and out of it, for one of the biggest meets of their life.
Every member of the US Olympic Swimming Team has an account on Instagram, with about half having Twitter accounts and about a third using TikTok.
Katie Ledecky, with 633,000 Instagram followers and 192,700 Twitter followers, has the biggest social media following, with Caeleb Dressel having the most Instagram followers at 647,000. These two ‘old bloods’ of the US team have significant followings from their results of past Olympics, as do swimmers like Simone Manuel (241,000), Ryan Murphy (200,000), and Lilly King (144,000).
Other newer members of the team, like Gretchen Walsh, have already seem a huge boost in their followings based on their results at the Olympic Trials. After her World Record swim, she gained about 20,000 new followers.
Once the Olympic machine kicks into full gear, all of these swimmers should see a boost in their followings.
We’ve done our best to track down all athletes’ social media accounts. If you’ve got a link to one we’re missing, let us know and we’ll add it!
Braden Keith is the Editor-in-Chief and a co-founder/co-owner of SwimSwam.com.
He first got his feet wet by building The Swimmers' Circle beginning in January 2010, and now comes to SwimSwam to use that experience and help build a new leader in the sport of swimming.
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not necessarily a mistake, but mariah denigan is in the men’s section. or were you meaning to make a separate section for the open water swimmers?
Good catch, thanks.