{"id":145586,"date":"2015-07-23T10:46:33","date_gmt":"2015-07-23T17:46:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=145586"},"modified":"2015-07-28T17:52:31","modified_gmt":"2015-07-29T00:52:31","slug":"katie-ledecky-ready-for-1500-free-200-free-double-at-world-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/katie-ledecky-ready-for-1500-free-200-free-double-at-world-championships\/","title":{"rendered":"Katie Ledecky Ready For 1500 Free-200 Free Double At World Championships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Coverage of the World Championships is sponsored by <a href=\"http:\/\/ads.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/abmc.aspx?b=939&amp;z=6\" target=\"_blank\">Wylas Timing<\/a>. Visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/2015-fina-world-championships\/\" target=\"_blank\">our landing page<\/a> for more.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>By Jeff Commings, Swimming World Senior Writer<\/i><\/p>\n<p>In 2013, <strong>Katie Ledecky<\/strong> stepped away from the 200 freestyle at the world championships, citing a very tough double with the 1500 freestyle final as the main reason.<\/p>\n<p>It might have been a good decision, as it kept Ledecky fully focused on obliterating the 1500 free world record in 2013. Her 200 free prowess was put to use on Team USA\u2019s 800 free relay, which won the gold medal.<\/p>\n<p>Two years later, Ledecky is stronger, faster, wiser. With the Olympics about one year away, she\u2019s not shying away from the 200 freestyle this time at the world championships. The 1500 freestyle final \u2013 where she is expected to defend her world title \u2013 falls about 15 minutes before the semifinals of the 200 freestyle. It is probably the toughest turnaround for any athlete at the meet, with maybe five minutes of recovery after the 1500 free before reporting to the race ready room for the 200 free semifinals.<\/p>\n<p>It will be just one busy day of many for Ledecky in Kazan, Russia, at the world championships. By electing to stay with the 200 free, Ledecky\u2019s only day off at the meet will be the eighth and final day, though she won\u2019t compete in a few prelim sessions and will enjoy a few extra hours of sleep. After qualifying to swim both the 200 free and 1500 free (in addition to the 400 free and 800 free) last summer, Ledecky hasn\u2019t gone through the torment of making the decision alone.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRight when I qualified for all of those races (at the USA Swimming nationals), I knew it was a discussion I was going to have with Bruce,\u201d Ledecky said, referring to Nation\u2019s Capital Swim Club coach <strong>Bruce Gemmell<\/strong>. \u201cIf I was going to drop one (event), it was going to have to be the 200 or 1500. At the beginning of the season we decided to go for it, and I\u2019ve been training for it since then.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ledecky is on track to win gold medals in all four freestyle events, something no one has done at a world championships. Her male counterpart, China\u2019s <strong>Sun Yang<\/strong>, could also win the same four events, making them likely to earn the Swimmer of the Meet award for the second time.<\/p>\n<p>Her focus since graduating from Stone Ridge School of the Sacred Heart in Maryland last spring has been solely on training. She said she\u2019s had \u201cone of the best training sessions of my life\u201d since returning from a three-week altitude training camp in Colorado Springs in July, which is raising her confidence even higher for great performances at world championships.<\/p>\n<p>She\u2019ll continue to have that singular focus on training for the next year, as <a href=http:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/katie-ledecky-officially-defers-stanford-enrollment-for-a-year\/ target=_blank>she is deferring enrollment to Stanford University<\/a> to remain with Gemmell for a big push toward the Olympics. She said she\u2019s going to enroll in some classes at nearby Georgetown University, and will also keep busy with volunteer activities in her community.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s good to focus on swimming and put 100 percent on that, but I am planning some things for the fall so I stay mentally engaged in other things,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>One of her extracurricular activities will involve Bikes for the World, which repairs bicycles and donates them to children in developing countries. She\u2019ll also accept speaking engagements to motivate the youth in her area, both in swimming and in the general public.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt really keeps everything in perspective,\u201d Ledecky said. \u201cOne of the things I\u2019ve enjoyed since the Olympics is all the things that have come my way, and helping people in need in my community.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coverage of the World Championships is sponsored by Wylas Timing. Visit our landing page for more. 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