Ariarne Titmus, the 22-year-old Australian, left no doubt Sunday at the World Aquatic Championships in Fukuoka, Japan, besting Katie Ledecky and everyone else in the 400 free.
While the head-to-head-to-head showdown between Australia’s Titmus, Team USA’s Katie Ledecky and Canada’s Summer McIntosh — the last three world record holders in the event — failed to live up to its prerace hype, Titmus’s dominant, wire-to-wire performance ensured the race would be a historic one., not only taking the gold medal but obliterating the world record by seven-tenths of a second.
Ledecky, the 26-year-old from Bethesda, Md., and seven-time Olympic gold medalist, produced her best time of the year in the event, at 3:58.73, but still trailed Titmus for the entire race and finished more than two body-lengths behind. It was her third straight loss to her Australian rival, following the 2019 Worlds and the 2021 Tokyo Olympics.
The silver medal, nonetheless, was the 23rd World Championships medal of Ledecky’s career — 19 of them being gold — the most all-time for a female swimmer. She will have two more chances in the meet, as the heavy favorite in both the 800- and 1,500-meter freestyles, to match Michael Phelps’s record of 15 individual gold medals at Worlds. She will also helm the Team USA entry in the 4 x 200-meter freestyle relay.“I think you could just see the world record coming.
McIntosh, the 16-year-old phenom, held second place for the first three-quarters of the race but faded to a fourth-place finish at 3:59.94, more than three seconds off her world record set at the Canadian team trials four months earlier. She was out-touched at the finish by Erika Fairweather of New Zealand , the surprise bronze medalist.
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