{"id":178614,"date":"2016-01-19T10:00:01","date_gmt":"2016-01-19T17:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=178614"},"modified":"2016-01-19T08:37:09","modified_gmt":"2016-01-19T15:37:09","slug":"performance-of-the-week-katie-ledeckys-800-freestyle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/performance-of-the-week-katie-ledeckys-800-freestyle\/","title":{"rendered":"Performance Of The Week: Katie Ledecky\u2019s 800 Freestyle"},"content":{"rendered":"

Unless you were living under a rock this weekend, by now you know that NCAP\u2019s <\/span>Katie Ledecky <\/b>smashed another one of her world records;\u00a0<\/span>this time in the 800 meter freestyle at the 2016 Arena Pro Swim Series in Austin, Texas<\/span><\/a>. <\/span>Ledecky <\/b>touched the wall in an unreal 8:06.68, and in the process of winning the event cleared her old record of 8:07.39 from last summer as well as her U.S. Open Record of 8:11.00 from 2014.<\/span><\/p>\n

January is not a time we typically see world records, particularly records of this caliber, fall, which puts what <\/span>Ledecky <\/b>did this weekend in a whole other stratosphere. To put <\/span>Ledecky\u2019s <\/b>performance into perspective, there has not been a world record set in January since all the way back in 2006, when the Commonwealth Games were held that month. With this swim, she now owns a staggering <\/span>nine of the top ten <\/span><\/i>fastest 800 freestyle performances of all time. The closest to her is British Olympian <\/span>Rebecca Adlington, <\/b>who had previously broken the world record with a 8:14.10 from the 2008 Beijing Olympics.<\/span><\/p>\n

Check out the race video here:<\/span><\/p>\n