Pan Pacific Championships, Results: Monster Anchor by Katie Ledecky Delivers Aussie All-Comer Record in 800 Free Relay

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GOLD COAST, Australia, August 22. THE early MVP of the meet thus far is easily USA’s Katie Ledecky.  After a pair of powerful performances last night to win the 200 and 800-meter freestyle golds, including a near world record in the 800, Ledecky overcame a full second deficit to deliver Team USA the women’s 800-meter freestyle relay gold as the vaunted anchor leg.

Entering the water behind Australia, 5:50.84 to 5:52.04, Ledecky blitzed the water with a 1:54.36.  It might not be the top 200 free split of the year with Sarah Sjostrom uncorking a 1:53 for Sweden over in Europe, but it was more than enough for a USA victory from the team of Shannon Vreeland, Missy Franklin, Leah Smith and Ledecky as the foursome clocked a 7:46.40.

That effort smashed the previous Pan Pacs record of 7:51.21 set by the Americans in 2010. It also serves as the Australian All-Comers record, beating a U.S. mark of 7:50.09 from the 2007 World Championships.

Australia’s Bronte Barratt, Emma McKeon, Brittany Elmslie and Melanie Schlanger could not overcome Ledecky’s incredible speed, and settled for silver with a 7:47.47, while Canada’s Brittany MacLean, Samantha Cheverton, Alyson Ackman and Emily Overholt took bronze in 7:58.03.

Japan (8:00.83), New Zealand (8:04.58) and Hong Kong (8:23.53) also swam in the championship heat.

Results

  1 UNITED STATES  'A'            7:45.14    7:46.40!  972  
     1) VREELAND, SHANNON 22          2) r:+0.37 FRANKLIN, MISSY 19   
     3) r:+0.32 SMITH, LEAH 19        4) r:+0.18 LEDECKY, KATIE 17    
    r:+0.76  27.78        57.31 (57.31)
      1:27.75 (1:27.75)   1:57.89 (1:57.89)
        2:24.52 (26.63)     2:53.84 (55.95)
      3:24.03 (1:26.14)   3:54.01 (1:56.12)
        4:21.42 (27.41)     4:51.40 (57.39)
      5:21.77 (1:27.76)   5:52.04 (1:58.03)
        6:18.48 (26.44)     6:47.54 (55.50)
      7:16.95 (1:24.91)   7:46.40 (1:54.36)
  2 AUSTRALIA  'A'                7:49.90    7:47.47.  965  
     1) BARRATT, BRONTE 25            2) r:+0.86 MCKEON, EMMA 20      
     3) r:+0.19 ELMSLIE, BRITTANY 20  4) r:+0.00 SCHLANGER, MELANIE 27
    r:+0.65  27.83        57.56 (57.56)
      1:27.58 (1:27.58)   1:58.07 (1:58.07)
        2:24.90 (26.83)     2:54.32 (56.25)
      3:24.22 (1:26.15)   3:53.92 (1:55.85)
        4:21.15 (27.23)     4:50.73 (56.81)
      5:20.82 (1:26.90)   5:50.84 (1:56.92)
        6:17.79 (26.95)     6:47.64 (56.80)
      7:17.65 (1:26.81)   7:47.47 (1:56.63)
  3 CANADA  'A'                   7:55.48    7:58.03   903  
     1) MACLEAN, BRITTANY 20          2) r:+0.25 CHEVERTON, SAMNTHA 26
     3) r:+0.28 ACKMAN, ALYSON 21     4) r:+0.37 OVERHOLT, EMILY 16   
    r:+0.72  27.97        57.63 (57.63)
      1:27.87 (1:27.87)   1:57.67 (1:57.67)
        2:25.63 (27.96)     2:55.83 (58.16)
      3:26.07 (1:28.40)   3:56.37 (1:58.70)
        4:24.12 (27.75)     4:54.29 (57.92)
      5:25.62 (1:29.25)   5:56.51 (2:00.14)
        6:24.65 (28.14)     6:55.79 (59.28)
      7:27.19 (1:30.68)   7:58.03 (2:01.52)
  4 JAPAN  'A'                    7:52.42    8:00.83   887  
     1) IGARASHI, CHIHIRO 19          2) r:+0.31 MIYAMOTO, YASUKO 19  
     3) r:+0.12 TAKANO, AYA 20        4) r:+0.17 YAMAGUCHI, MISAKI 24 
    r:+0.67  28.16        58.54 (58.54)
      1:29.16 (1:29.16)   1:59.71 (1:59.71)
        2:27.53 (27.82)     2:57.71 (58.00)
      3:28.64 (1:28.93)   3:59.82 (2:00.11)
        4:27.58 (27.76)     4:58.24 (58.42)
      5:29.16 (1:29.34)   6:00.05 (2:00.23)
        6:27.54 (27.49)     6:58.41 (58.36)
      7:29.84 (1:29.79)   8:00.83 (2:00.78)
  5 NEW ZEALAND  'A'              7:57.47    8:04.58   867  
     1) BOYLE, LAUREN 26              2) r:+0.15 LUCIE-SMITH, SNTHA 22
     3) r:+0.08 LEE, SAMANTHA 22      4) r:+0.12 ROBINSON, EMMA 19    
    r:+0.75  28.48        58.98 (58.98)
      1:29.41 (1:29.41)   1:59.51 (1:59.51)
        2:27.44 (27.93)     2:58.11 (58.60)
      3:29.34 (1:29.83)   4:00.41 (2:00.90)
        4:28.30 (27.89)     4:59.07 (58.66)
      5:30.71 (1:30.30)   6:02.75 (2:02.34)
        6:30.65 (27.90)     7:01.65 (58.90)
      7:33.20 (1:30.45)   8:04.58 (2:01.83)
  6 HONG KONG  'A'                8:04.86    8:23.53   772  
     1) CHAN, KIN LOK 20              2) r:+0.16 CHENG, CAMILLE 21    
     3) r:+0.22 LAU, CLAUDIA 21       4) r:+0.43 SZE, HANG YU 26      
    r:+0.73  28.69    1:01.24 (1:01.24)
      1:34.78 (1:34.78)   2:07.89 (2:07.89)
        2:35.38 (27.49)     3:06.13 (58.24)
      3:37.97 (1:30.08)   4:09.74 (2:01.85)
        4:38.03 (28.29)   5:10.70 (1:00.96)
      5:44.68 (1:34.94)   6:18.60 (2:08.86)
        6:46.19 (27.59)     7:17.82 (59.22)
      7:51.04 (1:32.44)   8:23.53 (2:04.93)

 

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