Katie Ledecky Smokes 500 Free American, H.S. Mark (Race Video)

Amazing swim! Not many guys can do that!

She is a beast!

Come on a Jay back in the day you too were a beast!

There’s always two ways to skin cat or swim a record-breaking 500 free as following splits attest:

500 YARD FREESTYLE
Top 2 Performances
4:26.58*+ Katie Ledecky, Stone Ridge Academy WA. Metro Champs. Boyds [MD.] 02-06-15
(Splits: 51.74, 1:45.77 [54.03], 2:39.80 [54.03], 3:33.76 [53.96], 4:26.58 [52.82].
(Note: U.S. Open/American/17-18 NAG/national independent-school/PV Swimming records.
(Note: final 50, 25.95!
(Note: second American scy record in 62 days. Broke own 1650 standard @ U.S. Nationals in
Greensboro, NC, December 6 w/a 15:13.30 clocking.
(Note: world record-holder, 400 meter freestyle.)
4:28.71p# Ledecky WA. Metro Champs. Boyds 02-07-14
(Splits: 51.15, 1:44.97 [53.83], 2:39.47 [54.50], 3:34.28 [54.81], 4:28.71 [54.43].
(Note: opening 200 free split fastest all-time en route to 500 free clocking.
(Note: Ledecky’s second scy U.S. Open/American record in 67 days. Set the 1650 standard
@ U.S. Nationals in Knoxville November 30.
(Note: second female prepster to set AR in prep competition. First was Kate Ziegler, who swam
a 4:33.35 @ this same meet eight years ago.
Only male prepster to accomplish this feat is Upland [CA.’s] Jeff Kostoff, who swam a 4:16.39
500 free @ the 1983 CIF Championships in Belmont Plaza. That time broke Brian Goodell’s
4:16.40 from 1978 AAUs in Austin. Kostoff swam collegiately @ Stanford and twice
won NCAA 1650 free golds for Skip Kenney’s Cardinal.
(Note: girls’ national 500 free high-school record still belongs to Janet Evans, who swam a
4:37.20 @ the 1988 CIF Championships for El Dorado High, also @ Belmont. Evans swam
for Stanford her freshman and soph seasons [1988-’89, ‘89-’90, winning/setting records in
the 500-1650 frees for the late Richard Quick. In the summer of ’88 Evans
was a triple gold-medalist @ the Seoul Olympics [400-800 frees, 400 IM])
(Note: 15-16 NAG record.)

Interestingly, @ this same meet last week where Ledecky set the national prep [independent-school] 200 free record [pr 1:41.82], the boy who won 500 free clocked 4:26.42. And of course the national prep boys 500 free standard is 4:13.87 by now Texas sophomore Jack Conger from this meet two years ago.

So, Katie, you STILL have a long ways to go to beat the boys!

But presumably after she goes 3:55+ for the 400 meter free @ Rio she’ll win 2K17 NCAA 500 free for Stanford in 4:10+.

Amazing!

Smok’in fast

Recuerdo que nadaba los 50 metros en menos de 30 segs. que buenos tiempos.