{"id":324263,"date":"2018-08-07T08:54:28","date_gmt":"2018-08-07T15:54:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=324263"},"modified":"2019-06-26T15:43:20","modified_gmt":"2019-06-26T22:43:20","slug":"simona-quadarella-dominates-womens-1500-for-european-distance-double","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/simona-quadarella-dominates-womens-1500-for-european-distance-double\/","title":{"rendered":"Simona Quadarella Dominates Women’s 1500 for European Distance Double"},"content":{"rendered":"

Italy’s\u00a0Simona Quadarella<\/strong>, already European champion in the 800 free, posted a dominant win in the women’s 1500 free to open the fifth session of finals in Glasgow. Quadarella dealt with an early challenge from Germany’s\u00a0Sarah Koehler<\/strong> and pulled away to win by more than six seconds.<\/p>\n

Quadarella put up a time of 15:51.61, making her the second-fastest swimmer in the world this year behind\u00a0Katie Ledecky<\/strong> and the eighth-fastest swimmer in history. Koehler was the only other swimmer to crack 16:00, finishing with the silver medal in a time of 15:57.85.<\/p>\n

Hungary’s\u00a0Ajna Kesely<\/strong> took bronze in 16:03.22. Fourth went to Slovenia’s\u00a0Tjasa Oder\u00a0<\/strong>in 16:10.46.<\/p>\n

Also in the final were Liechtenstein’s\u00a0Julia Hassler\u00a0<\/strong>(16:14.15), Spain’s\u00a0Jimena Perez Blanco\u00a0<\/strong>(16:16.41), Portugal’s\u00a0Tamila Hryhorivna Holub<\/b> (16:26.82) and Germany’s\u00a0Celine Rieder\u00a0<\/strong>(16:26.83).<\/p>\n

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