Katie Ledecky clocks second-fastest 1500m free ever in Pro Swim win | Katie Ledecky

Nine-time Olympic gold medalist Katie Ledecky clocked the second-fastest ladies’s 1500m freestyle time in historical past on Wednesday to launch the US Pro Swim Series occasion in Austin, Texas, with a dominant victory.

Ledecky was untouchable as she cruised to victory in 15min 23.21sec, greater than a minute in entrance of 16-year-old runner-up Brinkleigh Hansen, who touched in 16:31.31.

Becca Mann was third in 16:35.09.

Ledecky didn’t threaten her world report of 15:20.48, set in 2018, however she used a robust late surge to enhance on the second-best ever time of 15:24.51 that she had set on the Pro Swim Series in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, final April.

Since then she has gone on to win her sixth world title within the occasion finally 12 months’s world championships in Singapore.

She has received each Olympic gold medals – at Tokyo in 2021 and Paris 2024 – because the 1500m free was made an Olympic occasion for girls.

Now 28, the American who received her first Olympic gold within the 800m freestyle on the 2012 London Games is displaying no indicators of fading because the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics beckon.

Ledecky, the one girl to interrupt 15:30 for the 1500m free, did so for the tenth time.

She owns the highest 12 instances ever and 24 of the highest 25, with Italian Simon Quadrella’s runner-up end to Ledecky in 15:31.79 finally 12 months’s world championships now slotting in because the Thirteenth-fastest ever.

Men’s world record-holder Bobby Finke, Ledecky’s coaching accomplice in Florida, received the boys’s 1500m free in 15:01.70. Ireland’s Daniel Wiffen, the reigning 800m Olympic champion, was second in 15:04.98.

Olympic stars Summer McIntosh and Leon Marchand led the way in which into Thursday’s finals of the 200m particular person medley, during which they’re each world record-holders.

Canada’s McIntosh, winner of three gold medals on the Paris Games and 4 world titles in Singapore final 12 months, touched in 2:09.27 to prime the semi-final instances forward of Teagan O’Dell (2:13.15). Emma Weyant was third quickest, profitable her semi in 2:14.74.

France’s Marchand, who received 4 golds in Paris, topped the boys’s 200m medley semi-finals in 2:00.10 forward of Kieran Smith in 2:00.19 and Carson Foster in 2:00.24.

World record-holder Regan Smith of the US received the ladies’s 100m backstroke in 57.98sec, and reigning world campion Anna Elendt of Germany received the ladies’s 100m breaststroke in 1:06.91.