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2021 Olympic Games

Here are our medal picks in Olympic swimming at the Tokyo Games

TOKYO — USA Swimming’s first Olympics in a quarter century without Michael Phelps predictably will result in a smattering of individual gold medals for a handful of American stars, but no singular Phelpsian performance.

According to USA TODAY’s medal projections for the swimming competition at the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games, U.S. women will bring home 15 individual medals, including four gold — three from distance freestyle legend Katie Ledecky and one from breaststroker Lilly King.