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Per week after she obliterated the 1500m short-course record, 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 file of seven:59.34, setting a brand new greatest time of seven:57.42.
Ledecky nearly broke this file final week when she accomplished the 1500m in file time with a break up time of 8:00.58, a second off world-record tempo.
“I pushed myself so much after final week,” Ledecky stated, in keeping with FINA’s, the sport’s world governing body, website.
“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 rivals.
Solely Canada’s Summer season 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 executed it in Toronto. It’s all the time good when you possibly can hear somewhat little bit of the group. It’s a enjoyable method to begin the autumn and kick off the season,” Ledecky added.
“We often don’t get the season began with a global degree meet so it’s somewhat completely different for me.”
