{"id":105787,"date":"2021-07-26T12:39:44","date_gmt":"2021-07-26T12:39:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=105787"},"modified":"2021-07-26T15:01:41","modified_gmt":"2021-07-26T15:01:41","slug":"ledeckys-big-statement-to-aussie-golden-girl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=105787","title":{"rendered":"Ledecky's big statement to Aussie golden girl"},"content":{"rendered":"

Katie Ledecky<\/a> has brushed aside her disappointment at losing her 400m freestyle crown<\/a> to Ariarne Titmus<\/a>, setting the fastest time in the heats of the 200m freestyle.<\/p>\n

Just hours after the pair fought out a titanic battle in the 400m, they were back in the pool for the 200m.<\/p>\n

Ledecky stopped the clocks in 1:55.28 to be the fastest of the 16 qualifiers for the semi finals, ahead of Canada's Penny Oleksiak.<\/p>\n

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Australia's Madi Wilson was third in 1:55.87, a fraction ahead of Titmus who recorded 1:55.88. The world record holder, Italy's Federica Pellegrini, has some work to do, after clocking the 15th fastest time.<\/p>\n

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Almost unbelievably, Ledecky then backed up again for the heats of the women's 1500m, a new addition to the Olympic program in Tokyo.<\/p>\n

Showing no signs of a hectic program, Ledecky cruised to victory in her heat, qualifying fastest for the final with a time of 15:35.35, around 15 seconds outside her own world record, set in 2018.<\/p>\n

Ledecky was more than six seconds clear of her nearest rivals in the heats.<\/p>\n

The two Australians in the field, Maddy Gough (15:56.81) and Kiah Melverton (15:58.96) made it into the final, in seventh and eighth respectively. Melverton had just 0.84 in hand over the ninth placed swimmer.<\/p>\n

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There was disappointment for Australia's two swimmers in the men's 200m butterfly, with both David Morgan and Matt Temple missing the semi finals.<\/p>\n

World record holder, Hungary's Kristof Milak, looks almost unbeatable, clocking a time of 1:53.58, nearly a second ahead of anyone else, despite cruising the last 25m of his heat.<\/p>\n

Temple finished seventh in his heat in a time of 1:56.25, while Morgan was eighth in his heat in 2:00.27, nearly five seconds outside the time he posted at last month's selection trials.<\/p>\n

"I just died \u2013 I'm bitterly disappointed with that," the Rio relay bronze medallist said.<\/p>\n

"You don't come to an Olympic Games and swim that slowly. I've got to figure out why that went so bad.<\/p>\n

"I'm not really too sure, I'll have to look at it again."I'll bounce back \u2013 you get knocked down, you get back up again."<\/p>\n

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Elsewhere American Kate Douglass has set the fastest time in the heats of the women's 200m individual medley.<\/p>\n

Douglass clocked 2:09.16 in her heat, ahead of Hungary's Katinka Hosszu (2:09.70).<\/p>\n

There was a dead heat for the third fastest time of 2:09.94, with Great Britain's Abbie Wood and USA's Alex Walsh recording that time.<\/p>\n

There were no Australians in the event.<\/p>\n

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