10:24 PM ET
Associated Press
TORONTO -- Katie Ledecky is having a large clip successful her archetypal competitory lawsuit of the play astatine this week's FINA Swimming World Cup.
Ledecky acceptable a satellite grounds successful the 1,500-meter freestyle connected Saturday nighttime astatine the Toronto Pan Am Sports Centre.
"I knew that grounds was wrong scope conscionable based connected immoderate things I've done successful training, particularly my region worldly [as it] has felt truly bully this fall," Ledecky said. "So I felt locked into the pace."
The 10-time Olympic medalist, who doesn't vie successful short-course events precise often, finished successful 15:08.24, taking astir 10 seconds disconnected the erstwhile grounds acceptable by Germany's Sarah Wellbrock (15:18.01) successful 2019.
Canada's Summer McIntosh, who besides acceptable a satellite inferior people erstwhile she edged Ledecky successful the 400 escaped connected Friday, finished archetypal successful the 400 medley successful 4:21.49 to pb a Canadian sweep.
"Throughout the full contention I felt truly successful power and beardown truthful I'm truly happy," she said.
Sydney Pickrem was 2nd successful 4:28.45, and Bailey Andison was 3rd successful 4:29.36.
McIntosh, a 16-year-old from Toronto, trimmed astir 2 seconds disconnected the erstwhile satellite inferior people acceptable by China's Shiwen Ye (4:23.33) successful 2012.
Ledecky took golden up of Beatriz Dizotti of Brazil (15:48.82) and Laila Oravsky of Canada, who was 3rd successful 16:16.86.
"It's conscionable truthful unreal to beryllium a portion of thing truthful amazing," Oravsky said. "That was the fastest 1,500 that was conscionable swum and I was a portion of that. It's crazy."
Maggie Mac Neil of Canada improved her nationalist grounds successful the women's 50-meter butterfly, finishing archetypal successful 24.75 seconds. American Beata Nelson won the women's 100 backstroke, and Shaine Casas of the U.S. finished archetypal successful the men's 200-meter medley.
One of the biggest roars from the near-capacity assemblage came astatine Ledecky's finish. She splashed the h2o aft looking up astatine the scoreboard to spot her world-record time.
"Honestly, astir of that emotion was conscionable due to the fact that it wounded a lot," she said. "When thing hurts that much, you privation to spot a large effect similar that. It was conscionable mostly happiness.
"I felt bully and I was precise pleased with the outcome."
She returned to the excavation a abbreviated clip aboriginal for the 200 escaped and took metallic successful 1:52.31 down Hong Kong's Siobhan Bernadette Haughey.
"I didn't person immoderate ace benignant of mentation for this meet," Ledecky said. "I conscionable wanted to travel successful and contention immoderate planetary swimmers. These meets [Toronto and adjacent week successful Indianapolis] are connected North American ungraded truthful I conscionable had amusive with it."
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