3-Time Olympic Gold Medalist Lilly King Announces She'll Retire After 2025 Swim Season

American swimming star and three-time Olympic gold medalist Lilly King announced her retirement at the end of the 2025 season in an Instagram post on Saturday.

"Well folks, my time has come," King wrote, via the Associated Press (h/t ESPN). "This will be my final season competing. I'm fortunate heading into retirement being able to say I have accomplished everything I have ever wanted in this sport. I feel fulfilled."

The 28-year-old's final meet in the United States will be the Toyota National Championships in Indianapolis.

“That being said, it has always been important to me that my last meet in the US be at the pool that started it all,” King wrote. “I have been racing in the IU Natatorium since I was 10 years old. From state meets, to NCAAs, Nationals, and anything in between, this pool has been my home. I didn’t quite make it 20 years (only 18) of racing in Indy, but this is as close as I’m gonna get! I look forward to racing in front of a home crowd one last time."

King is set to wrap up an incredible career, as she still holds the world record in the 100m breaststroke with her 1:04.3 time at the World Championships in 2017.

She won a gold medal in the same event at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, earning two more golds on relays at the Rio de Janeiro Games as well as the Paris Olympics.

In Paris, King helped the U.S. women's 4x100 medley relay set a world record with a 3:49.63 time alongside Regan Smith, Gretchen Walsh and Torri Huske.

She also won silver in the 200m breaststroke and 4x100 medley relay at the 2020 Tokyo Games.

The Toyota National Championships will begin on Tuesday.