Reports: Olympic Champion Katie Ledecky Now Owns 23/25 Top Timings for 1500M Freestyle

On January 10, Wednesday, Katie Ledecky approached the swimming pool in the TYR Pro Swim Series 2024 with unknown opposition and the same expectation she has been captivating for years. Eventually, the current Olympic champion in 1500m opened her similar form in the Allan Jones arena in Knoxville. With a clocking of 15:38.81, the top seed in the discipline earned the opening day medal from the incipient affair. 

But this time, the movement evoked the need for a detailed discussion. After all, there is an Olympic contention waiting for Katie Ledecky in the gap of 6 months. 

Katie Ledecky’s known pace with unknown opponents 

Wednesday evening in the Allan Jones Intercollegiate Aquatic Center, several young swimmers framed the event of 1500m free in the women’s category. Katie Ledecky may have missed the known Katie Grimes and Bella Sims who flexed the pool last year in the same event. However, a change of oppositions couldn’t grow a lackadaisical approach in the 26-year-old sensation’s swimming muscles. She touched the yellow wall way before her nearest opponent, Aly Breslin. Even Ledecky’s magic run boxed the USA Swimming’s X handle with an unmatched reverence. After the final scoreline was posted, the X-handle evaporated, “Katie Ledecky is unreal. She just went 15:38.81 at the #TYRProSeries Knoxville, which is the 17th fastest time in HISTORY, and she now owns 23 out of the top 25 times ever recorded in the 1500m freestyle.”

Moreover, the 800m Olympic medalist achieved a remarkable feat in her career, when Ashley Wall from another final took more than one minute to claim the second position. Having said that, the day also saw Ledecky converting the subparts way better than her previous show in the US Open Swimming Championship’s 1500m discipline. Here, in Knoxville, the former Gator covered the initial 800m in the sub-8 timeline. The next 700m crossing came when Aly Breslin was nowhere in the vicinity of 100m of Katie Ledecky. Still, the race was yet to measure a perfect season opener for the numero uno. 

The missing point 

Last season Katie Ledecky inflicted some unfeigned performances in the 1500m swimming discipline. The first one came at the TYR Pro Swim Series 2023. That time, the Washington DC-born swimmer claimed the 1500m free title with a timing of 15:37.99. Later in that year, in Fukuoka, she limited the timing to 15:26.27 to earn the World Championship medal. That earning made her the most decorated female swimmer ever.

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On that estimate, in the short course 1500m free, the 10x Olympic medalist owned the world record, made in 2022 in a significantly shorter time of 15:08.24. So, showcasing all those feats, now Katie Ledecky might want to improve her timing before the Paris Olympics jumps into the picture. 

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