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By David Rieder<\/i><\/p>\n

With the FINA World Championships and U.S. Nationals having both wrapped up, no major long course meets remain before Olympic Trials season gets underway in full force next spring. The world\u2019s elite swimmers can now put every their entire training focus into their Olympic preparation. But before the Olympic season begins in earnest, let\u2019s take a few minutes to look back at the best performances of the year from 2015.<\/p>\n

Ranking swims in different events is not an objective exercise. Sure, FINA has a points scale that measures how a time compares to the world record in each event. My admittedly-subjective analysis here takes into account more than how much an athlete won a race by or whether or not the world record survived. So if you disagree with my choices here, I can\u2019t really apologize, but please do let me know your rankings using the comments box below.<\/p>\n

We\u2019ll start with the women, who accounted for six individual world records in four different events at the World Championships in Kazan. Short course swims don\u2019t count for this countdown \u2013 with apologies to Missy Franklin\u2019s<\/b> 200 free from the NCAA Championships. But there\u2019s plenty of swift swimming to discuss, mostly from the past two weeks.<\/p>\n

Honorable Mentions<\/h3>\n

Five women won at least two individual gold medals at Worlds, but one of them did not quite make the countdown. Bronte Campbell<\/b> won both the 50 and 100 free in Kazan, but her most shocking effort came on the 400 free relay that opened the meet when she pulled away from the field with a 51.77 split\u2026 Not to be outdone, Femke Heemskerk<\/b> pulled the Netherlands ahead of Sweden and the United States to win the silver medal with a 51.99 anchor split\u2026 Lauren Boyle\u2019s<\/b> won two silver medals in Kazan, but she was completely overshadowed by Katie Ledecky<\/b>. Boyle, though, moved into third in the all-time rankings in the 1500 with her 15:40.17, and she also claimed a spot in the top-ten for the 800\u2026 It was a rough week in Kazan for Missy Franklin<\/b>, but she put forth a gutty effort anchoring the mixed free relay, passing Heemskerk over the last 10 meters with a 53.31 anchor split\u2026 Maya DiRado<\/b> finished a tough-luck fourth in the 200 IM, despite swimming under the 2:09 barrier, but she rebounded with a big swim in the women\u2019s 400 IM to claim silver in 4:31.71. That moved her to 11th all-time in the event, and among Americans, only Katie Hoff<\/b> and Elizabeth Beisel<\/b> have swum faster.<\/p>\n

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5. Katie Ledecky’s 200 Free at World Championships<\/h3>\n

It was billed as the race of the week. Federica Pellegrini<\/b>, Missy Franklin<\/b>, and Katinka Hosszu<\/b> all had lanes in the middle of the pool, while Katie Ledecky<\/b> and then-world number one Femke Heemskerk<\/b> swam from the outside. Ledecky had to use a finishing surge to even get lane seven for the final after swimming the 1500 free just 30 minutes before the semi-finals of the 200, but still, with two gold medals already in her pocket, many considered her the favorite.<\/p>\n

Ledecky held her during the opening stages of the race before she made a surge on the third 50. She still trailed Heemskerk with 50 meters to go but not by much. Ledecky than pushed ahead and help off last-ditch efforts from both Pellegrini and Franklin to get the gold, the third of the five she ended up winning in Kazan. The time (1:55.16) did not blow anyone\u2019s socks off, but Ledecky proved to the world that she could stand up to the best of the best in an event as short as the 200 and also that she simply had no intention of losing all week \u2013 which she did not.<\/p>\n

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4. Emily Seebohm\u2019s 100 Back at World Championships<\/h3>\n

Before Kazan, no one doubted Emily Seebohm\u2019s<\/b> speed or consistency in the 100 back. She had been in the four previous World Championship finals in the event and had taken silver at the Olympics after setting a still-standing Olympic record of 58.23 in prelims. But up until last week, Seebohm had never taken an individual gold medal at a World Championships or Olympics, and she had never beaten Missy Franklin<\/b> in one of those finals.<\/p>\n

Seebohm won the World title in dominating fashion, as her 58.26 eclipsed fellow Australian Madison Wilson<\/b> by almost a half second. Reigning World and Olympic champion Franklin ended up fifth. Only Gemma Spofforth<\/b> and Anastasia Fesikov<\/b> (formerly Zueva<\/b>) have ever swum faster than Seebohm\u2019s effort, and both of those swims came during the tech suit era. And top off her performance in the 100, Seebohm swam an incredible 31.14 final split in the 200 back to defeat Franklin again, her 2:05.81 final time earning her another honorable mention performance.<\/p>\n

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3. Sarah Sjostrom\u2019s 100 Fly at World Championships<\/h3>\n

Sarah Sjostrom<\/b> had as impressive a meet of anyone without the surname Ledecky. Sjostrom set a World Championships record in winning gold in the 50 fly, split the Campbell sisters as she took silver in the 100 free, and she also grabbed a bronze in the 50 free. She earns two honorable mentions for her relay performances; her 1:54.31 swum leading off the 800 free relay would have won the individual 200 free, and the 55.28 that Sjostrom swam on the medley relay almost single-handedly propelled Sweden to silver.<\/p>\n

But Sjostrom gets the nod here for a record-breaking performance in the 100 fly. She had made clear her intentions of taking down Dana Vollmer\u2019s world record of 55.98, and she did just that in the semi-finals, clocking 55.74. She then lowered that mark to in the final to 55.64, coming home more than a second faster than anyone else on the second 50 and crushing rival Jeanette Ottesen<\/b>. Ottesen, who just last year touched out Sjostrom in the event at the European Championships, finished 1.41 seconds back, winning silver in 57.05.<\/p>\n

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2. Katinka Hosszu\u2019s 200 IM at World Championships<\/h3>\n

Raise your hand if you saw anyone breaking Ariana Kukors\u2019<\/b> world record in the women\u2019s 200 IM. No one? That\u2019s what I thought. Most viewed Katinka Hosszu<\/b> as a big favorite entering the event, but she would have to swim almost two seconds faster than the 2:07.92 she clocked at the Worlds in Barcelona two years ago to get down to Kukors\u2019 suit-aided 2:06.15.<\/p>\n

The record chase looked more possible (but still a long shot) after Hosszu checked in with a semi-final time of 2:06.84, the second-fastest performance of all-time. The next day, in the final, Hosszu swam well ahead of world record-pace and held off the superimposed line on the screen by just three one-hundredths of a second. Hosszu, who would later take gold in the 400 IM and bronze in the 200 back, burst into tears upon seeing her time as she realized just how vaunted a record she had just taken down.<\/p>\n

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1. Katie Ledecky\u2019s 800 Free at World Championships<\/h3>\n

At first, it was just another dominant win for Katie Ledecky<\/b> \u2013 sure, she was more than a bodylength ahead of the world record line, but that\u2019s what she had done earlier in the week in the 1500. At the 750 meter mark, a comfortable eight second lead was not going to disappear. The 8:10 barrier, one previously thought to be impossible to crack, was in serious jeopardy already. But then, after 6150 meters of racing on the week, Ledecky wanted to finish up her World Championships on the right note.<\/p>\n

Having hardly kicked the entire race, Ledecky suddenly switched into overdrive, vowing to leave nothing behind in the pool. Ledecky kicked 10 meters underwater off the final wall and then kicked like she was sprinting a 100 as she pulled even further away from world record pace. She finished in a mind-boggling 8:07.39, more than three and a half seconds inside the previous mark she set last June. No better way to put a cap on a truly historic week.<\/p>\n

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