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Katie Ledecky competes within the ladies’s 800m freestyle remaining on day eight of the US Olympic trials.
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Katie Ledecky did on Saturday what she at all times does – win an 800m freestyle race. However this victory on the US Olympic Swimming Staff Trials had added significance.
The seven-time Olympic champion grew to become the primary lady to win 4 titles in a single occasion on the US trials, in accordance with USA Swimming, clocking dwelling in 8:14.12 in Indianapolis, Indiana, to safe Olympic qualification in an occasion wherein she has received gold on the final three Video games.
“I’m joyful to have gotten the job carried out right here in Indy tonight and this week,” Ledecky stated, per USA Swimming. “It was a thrill to race in entrance of this crowd all week, and naturally tonight to reminisce a bit on 12 years in the past when my worldwide profession obtained kickstarted by that 800 in Omaha.”
Ledecky, the 800m freestyle ladies’s world report holder, was unable to surpass Canada’s Summer time McIntosh’s world-leading time this 12 months of 8:11.39.
Because the proprietor of 29 of the highest 30 quickest ladies’s 800m freestyle instances in historical past, Ledecky shall be favourite to win gold in Paris, however the potential head-to-head in opposition to the American and McIntosh is about to be one of many standout races in Paris.
Paige Madden completed in a private finest time to qualify for her third Olympic occasion, however was greater than six seconds behind Ledecky.
Elsewhere, Caeleb Dressel received the lads’s 100m butterfly to guide his second particular person spot for Paris, successful in 50.19 seconds.
Within the ladies’s 200m particular person medley, Kate Douglass received in a private finest time of two:06.79.