Katie Ledecky Breaks Down What Training in Florida is Like | SwimSwam

By Coleman Hodges on SwimSwam

2021 US OPEN CHAMPIONSHIPS

• Wednesday, December 1 – Saturday, December 4, 2021
• Greensboro Aquatic Center, Greensboro, NC
• LCM (50m)
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Reported by Emma Edmund.

WOMEN’S 400 FREE FINAL

• World: 3:56.46, Katie Ledecky (2016)
• American: 3:56.46, Katie Ledecky (2016)
• US Open Meet: 4:00.81, Katie Ledecky (2019)

Katie Ledecky did it again. After pulling out a body length ahead by the end of the first 100, Ledecky won the event in 4:00.51, breaking her own U.S. Open meet record from 2019. She finished with a sub-1:00 time, mimicking her speed from prelims when she swam the last 100 in 58.70.

Yesterday, Ledecky won the 800 free in 8:12.81, also setting a new meet record in that event.

Ledecky finished ten seconds ahead of second-place Erin Gemmell, who finished in 4:10.12. Gemmell is just 16 years old. Sierra Schmidt and Katrina Bellio took third and fourth, respectively, with Schmidt finishing in 4:12.53 and Bellio just .20 behind her at 4:12.73.

Schmidt also made the podium in the 800, finishing third in that event.

LEDECKY’S SPLITS
28.15
30.40
30.43
30.94
31.22
30.27
29.91
29.19

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