{"id":322067,"date":"2018-07-28T18:32:16","date_gmt":"2018-07-29T01:32:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=322067"},"modified":"2018-07-28T18:32:16","modified_gmt":"2018-07-29T01:32:16","slug":"katie-ledecky-dominates-400-free-for-third-national-title-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/katie-ledecky-dominates-400-free-for-third-national-title-this-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Katie Ledecky Dominates 400 Free For Third National Title This Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Katie Ledecky\u00a0<\/strong>won her third National title of the meet to kick off the penultimate night of finals, leading through the entire race to touch in 3:59.09. While that it off of her season best of 3:57.94 (which also stands as the U.S. Open record), that time is still nearly two seconds faster than anyone else in the world. Ledecky was under her own world record pace through the first half of the race but couldn&#8217;t quite stay there through the final meters of the race.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Leah Smith\u00a0<\/strong>was second in 4:02.21, about a 1.5 seconds off of her lifetime best and two seconds faster than she has been so far this season. That\u00a0 swim moves her up one spot in the world rankings to third, jumping past China&#8217;s <strong>Jianjiahe Wang<\/strong> (4:03.14) and moving behind Australia&#8217;s\u00a0<strong>Ariarne Titmus\u00a0<\/strong>(4:00.93).<\/p>\n<p>In third was\u00a0<strong>Haley Anderson\u00a0<\/strong>in 4:07.21, which is her first time under 4:08 and another big best time for the Trojan swimmer at this meet after her third place finish in the 800 free on night one. Just behind her was former Purdue swimming\u00a0<strong>Kaersten Meitz <\/strong>in\u00a04:07.60, which was also her first time under 4:08.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sierra Schmidt <\/strong>(4:08.98),<strong> Geena Freriks <\/strong>(4:09.04),<strong> Hali Flickinger <\/strong>(4:10.42),\u00a0and <strong>Kirsten Jacobsen\u00a0<\/strong>(4:11.14) made up the rest of the A-final.\u00a0<strong>Allison Schmitt<\/strong>, who is already on the Pan Pacs team after her second place finish in the 200 free, won the B final in 4:08.46.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"322071\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/kathleen-baker-stuns-with-world-record-on-night-four-of-us-nationals\/screen-shot-2018-07-28-at-9-14-27-pm\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Screen-Shot-2018-07-28-at-9.14.27-PM.png\" data-orig-size=\"1602,1010\" 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=\"Screen Shot 2018-07-28 at 9.14.27 PM\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Screen Shot 2018-07-28 at 9.14.27 PM&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Photo Courtesy:&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Screen-Shot-2018-07-28-at-9.14.27-PM-700x500.png\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Screen-Shot-2018-07-28-at-9.14.27-PM-1024x646.png\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-322071 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Screen-Shot-2018-07-28-at-9.14.27-PM.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2018-07-28 at 9.14.27 PM\" width=\"1602\" height=\"1010\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Screen-Shot-2018-07-28-at-9.14.27-PM.png 1602w, https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Screen-Shot-2018-07-28-at-9.14.27-PM-533x336.png 533w, https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Screen-Shot-2018-07-28-at-9.14.27-PM-280x177.png 280w, https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Screen-Shot-2018-07-28-at-9.14.27-PM-1024x646.png 1024w, https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Screen-Shot-2018-07-28-at-9.14.27-PM-150x95.png 150w, https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Screen-Shot-2018-07-28-at-9.14.27-PM-500x315.png 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1602px) 100vw, 1602px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Katie Ledecky\u00a0won her third National title of the meet to kick off the penultimate night of finals, leading through the entire race to touch in 3:59.09. 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