Katie Ledecky wins third gold at World Championships

“I wasn’t kicking much”.

After touching the wall, she seemed surprised to learn she’d set a new world record.

[Katie Ledecky’s world record is among “best ever” swimming performances]. His time frame: 15:28.37.

The final day of diving kept to the same script as previous days with China emerging victorious again, led by Olympic silver medallist Qiu Bo, who successful defended his 10m platform title, posting a score of 587.00.

Van der Burgh’s strategy was to go out fast and try to make Peaty catch him. In the grandstands running the length of the pool, on the side where Ledecky breathed on the even laps, stood her parents, her uncle and her brother, who was operating a video camera in his right hand and gesturing madly with his left, trying to hurry her home. “To be a part of it, to be her teammate while she is doing it, is incredibly special for me”. “She flew by me”. She is usually a distance swimmer. The words of her coach, Bruce Gemmell, remained on her mind: 900 easy, 300 build, 300 choice.

China’s Sun Yang competes in the men’s 200m freestyle final at the Swimming World Championships in Kazan, Russia, Tuesday, August 4, 2015.

Ledecky had a good view of the competition from lane 7. Ledecky responded, laughing.

“I’ve just been chipping away [at the race], and it’s pretty special to be able to swim the 200 here”, she said.

Per OlympicTalk, Phelps went on to praise Ledecky after the interview concluded.

“I was barely even focusing on this morning’s swim as I was so relaxed”. “I didn’t know I was going to be that close sneaking in”.

Femke Heemskerk of the Netherlands took it out strongly, dipping under world-record pace on the opening lap.

Ledecky burst onto the scene at the 2012 London Olympics, winning the 800m freestyle in dominating fashion.

Seebohm, who also won a relay gold on Sunday, timed 58.26secs with team-mate Madison Wilson taking silver at 0.49secs and the 23-year-old was in tears during the medal ceremony when the Australian anthem was played.

It promises to be another breaststroke battle royal between the pair in Wednesday s 50m final as Van der Burgh swam 26.74secs in his semi. Lotte Friis of Denmark, runner-up to Ledecky two years ago in the world championships in Barcelona, finished fourth.

Having just finished high school, Ledecky already made history on Tuesday after swimming a world record of 15:24.48 in the 1,500m final – then qualifying from the 200m semi-finals under thirty minutes later.

Sarah Sjostrom of Sweden lowered her own world record in the 100-meter butterfly to win gold Monday night, and then Katinka Hosszu of Hungary erased a world mark from the high-tech suit era to claim the 200 individual medley.

Swimvortex.com had a nice roundup of the extent of Ledecky’s dominance in her the three events. She did not lead a single split but eventually won by 0.16 seconds from Pellegrini in 1:55.16. She has also done it despite competing in an era where faster synthetic racing suits have been banned by FINA because they are believed to be performance enhancing.