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Per week after she obliterated the 1500m short-course report, Katie Ledecky broke one other – this time within the 800m as she stormed to victory on the FINA World Cup in Indianapolis.
The American shaved nearly two seconds off Mireia Belmonte’s earlier report of seven:59.34, setting a brand new finest time of seven:57.42.
Ledecky nearly broke this report final week when she accomplished the 1500m in report time with a cut up time of 8:00.58, a second off world-record tempo.
“I pushed myself so much after final week,” Ledecky mentioned, based on FINA’s, the game’s world governing physique, web site.
“It’s nice to have all these followers right here to cheer us on. It’s good to have some benchmarks (briefly course).
And like her record-breaking 1500m swim, Ledecky led from the primary flip, all the time forward of world-record tempo, and by no means gave the impression to be troubled by her fellow opponents.
Solely Canada’s Summer time McIntosh remained inside touching distance of Ledecky, however she too dropped away from the American within the second half of the race and finally completed in second, nearly 10 seconds again.
“I used to be placing some stress on myself after my swim in Toronto. I want I had carried out it in Toronto. It’s all the time good when you possibly can hear a bit of little bit of the group. It’s a enjoyable technique to begin the autumn and kick off the season,” Ledecky added.
“We normally don’t get the season began with a world stage meet so it’s a bit of completely different for me.”
