Katie Ledecky dominates 1,500 at Olympic trials exactly as we expected.
Ledecky is the most famous female swimmer in the world has was the winner of her third consecutive race Wednesday night. It was the longest course in the swimming pool in the pool, 1500-meter freestyle.
INDIANAPOLIS INDIAAPOLIS Katie Ledecky’s Olympic trials are going exactly the way she, along with everyone else was hoping they would.
Ledecky is the most famous female swimmer of all time has won her third consecutive event on Wednesday night. It was which is the lengthiest race at the swimming pool the 1,500 freestyle, in 15:37.35. Ledecky will be the undisputed gold medal contender in next summer’s Paris Olympic Games. Katie Grimes was second, being 20 seconds ahead of Ledecky.
“I was pretty excited coming into tonight,” Ledecky stated in an interview with NBC Sports after winning her race. “I would have loved to have been a little faster, but I’ll take it. I’ll be better in a few weeks.”
Ledecky 27 is unbeaten in 1,500 races in her professional life, having been awarded five world championships and the first Olympic gold medal during the the 2021 Tokyo Olympics. She also holds the record for the world in a race specifically designed for her to win and requires endurance, stamina, and discipline in swimming back and forth back and forth, for 30 times in a 50-meter pool.
“I’m really happy with how the meet’s going,” Ledecky the seven-time Olympic gold medallist, said following Tuesday’s 1500 heats. “Just going day-by-day and trying to put all my effort into it. I’m very happy with my overall feeling in the water, and how quickly each day is going.”
She’s left one event in the U.S. Olympic trials, the 800 freestyle on Saturday.
For the Olympic Games, Ledecky will be the favorite to win gold medals in both the 1,500 and 800 races, and maybe even bronze for the 400.
While she’s not yet decided to withdraw out of her solo 200-freestyle race, which she won earlier this week, she has said that’s what she plans to do for Paris. She’ll, however, take part in the 4x 200 relay, an event that she excels at.
Then, in Tokyo just three years back, while swimming at anchor, Ledecky had most quickly in the relay split among all participants in the race, pulling the Americans up from third place to second place, edging out the Australians and even beating the gold medal-winning Chinese.