{"id":29426,"date":"2025-05-04T20:18:18","date_gmt":"2025-05-04T20:18:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/katie-ledecky-american-swimmer-breaks-first-world-record-in-seven-years-in-800m-freestyle\/"},"modified":"2025-05-04T20:18:20","modified_gmt":"2025-05-04T20:18:20","slug":"katie-ledecky-american-swimmer-breaks-first-world-record-in-seven-years-in-800m-freestyle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/katie-ledecky-american-swimmer-breaks-first-world-record-in-seven-years-in-800m-freestyle\/","title":{"rendered":"Katie Ledecky: American swimmer breaks first world record in seven years in 800m freestyle"},"content":{"rendered":"


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American swimming great Katie Ledecky has set her first world record in seven years.<\/b><\/p>\n

The 28-year-old won the 800m freestyle at the Tyr Pro Series meet in Florida in eight minutes and 4.12 seconds, beating a record she posted nine years ago.<\/p>\n

The time bettered the previous mark of 8:04.79, which the nine-time Olympic champion set while winning gold at the Rio 2016 Games.<\/p>\n

It is the sixth time that Ledecky has set a new mark in the event since taking the record from Great Britain’s two-time Olympic champion Rebecca Adlington in 2013.<\/p>\n

Before her latest feat, Ledecky’s most recent world record had come in the 1500m freestyle in May 2018 and she holds four in total – for long and short course in both the 800m and 1500m freestyle.<\/p>\n

Ledecky, who swept both titles at both the Paris 2024<\/a> and Tokyo 2020 Games, has hit some fine form over the past week.<\/p>\n

She posted her second-fastest 400m freestyle time on Thursday – her best in nine years – and the second-fastest 1500m freestyle time in history on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Earlier on Saturday, compatriot Gretchen Walsh beat her own 100m butterfly world record, clocking 55.09 seconds.<\/p>\n

The 22-year-old holds the most current world records with nine – five individual and four relays.<\/p>\n

Both Walsh and Ledecky be looking to add to their tallies of World Championship medals at the 2025 edition in Singapore from 11 July-3 August.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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American swimming great Katie Ledecky has set her first world record in seven years. The 28-year-old won the 800m freestyle at the Tyr Pro Series meet in Florida in eight minutes and 4.12 seconds, beating a record she posted nine years ago. The time bettered the previous mark of 8:04.79, which the nine-time Olympic champion […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29427,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29426"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29426"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29428,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29426\/revisions\/29428"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}