{"id":234138,"date":"2016-12-28T08:00:48","date_gmt":"2016-12-28T15:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=234138"},"modified":"2016-12-25T22:21:42","modified_gmt":"2016-12-26T05:21:42","slug":"swimming-worlds-female-performance-of-the-year-katie-ledeckys-400-and-800-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/swimming-worlds-female-performance-of-the-year-katie-ledeckys-400-and-800-free\/","title":{"rendered":"Swimming World&#8217;s Female Performance of the Year: Katie Ledecky&#8217;s 400 and 800 Free"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Katie Ledecky<\/strong> was the unanimous choice for Female World Swimmer of the Year, and she wins top female performance of the year as well. For sure, Ledecky\u2019s gold medal-winning effort in the 200 meter free merited consideration here as she out-dueled Sweden\u2019s <strong>Sarah Sjostrom<\/strong> in one of the best races of the Olympic Games. But it was the 400 and the 800 in which she simply wowed.<\/p>\n<div class=\"oembed-wrap\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ISXkw4D5lr4?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p>Ledecky won gold in the 400 by nearly five seconds over Britain\u2019s <strong>Jazz Carlin<\/strong>. Her final time of 3:56.46 obliterated the previous world record\u2014hers, of course\u2014of 3:58.37 from 2014.<span data-term=\"goog_337490918\">Five days later<\/span>, she beat silver medalist Carlin by more than 10 seconds in the 800, registering a time of 8:04.79, two seconds quicker than the world record she had posted last January.<\/p>\n<p>After the 800, Ledecky\u2019s typically-stoic facade cracked. This year\u2019s journey had finally come to an end for the teary-eyed 19-year-old. She\u2019s now on to her next mission\u2014seeking to dominate college swimming as a member of the Stanford Cardinal\u2014but few will soon forget about what Ledecky did in Rio.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"234681\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/swimming-worlds-newcomer-of-the-year-penny-oleksiak\/bestof16-badge\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/bestof16-badge.png\" data-orig-size=\"304,222\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"bestof16-badge\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;bestof16-badge&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/bestof16-badge.png\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/bestof16-badge.png\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-234681 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/bestof16-badge-274x200.png\" alt=\"bestof16-badge\" width=\"274\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/bestof16-badge-274x200.png 274w, https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/bestof16-badge.png 304w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 274px) 100vw, 274px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Special Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lumalanes.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">LumaLanes <\/a>for sponsoring Swimming World&#8217;s Performance of the Week.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Learn More About LumaLanes<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1HTqQPBuCLQ\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Katie Ledecky was the unanimous choice for Female World Swimmer of the Year, and she wins top female performance of the year as well. 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