{"id":339986,"date":"2018-11-29T15:32:49","date_gmt":"2018-11-29T22:32:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=339986"},"modified":"2018-12-03T16:41:25","modified_gmt":"2018-12-03T23:41:25","slug":"katie-ledecky-earns-dominating-victory-in-400-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/katie-ledecky-earns-dominating-victory-in-400-free\/","title":{"rendered":"Katie Ledecky Earns Dominating Victory in 400 Free"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No surprises to open Thursday&#8217;s finals session at the USA Winter National Championships as <strong>Katie Ledecky<\/strong> cruised to victory in the 400 free, winning in 4:00.35, nine seconds ahead of <strong>Hali Flickinger<\/strong>, who finished in 4:09.71.<\/p>\n<p>Both times easily qualified for the 2020 Olympic trials.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kaersten Meitz<\/strong> and <strong>Ashley Twichell<\/strong> tied for third, both finishing in 4:11.52 to earn trials cuts.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Erica Sullivan<\/strong> finished fifth in 4:12.19, followed by <strong>Emma Weyhant<\/strong> (4:14.34) and <strong>Chase Travis<\/strong> (4:14.42), each earning trials cuts.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Paige McKenna<\/strong> finished eighth (4:17.64).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Fn3qRd6q55E\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Autumn Haebig, Julia Hassler<\/strong> and <strong>Chloe Freeman<\/strong> earned trials cuts from the B final.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_339994\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-339994\" data-attachment-id=\"339994\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/2018-usa-winter-nationals-jordan-wilimovsky-katie-ledecky-earn-2nd-wins\/screen-shot-2018-11-29-at-5-25-52-pm\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Screen-Shot-2018-11-29-at-5.25.52-PM.png\" data-orig-size=\"957,392\" 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 2018-11-29 at 5.25.52 PM\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Screen Shot 2018-11-29 at 5.25.52 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\/11\/Screen-Shot-2018-11-29-at-5.25.52-PM-700x392.png\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Screen-Shot-2018-11-29-at-5.25.52-PM.png\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-339994\" src=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Screen-Shot-2018-11-29-at-5.25.52-PM-700x392.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2018-11-29 at 5.25.52 PM\" width=\"700\" height=\"392\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-339994\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo Courtesy:<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No surprises to open Thursday&#8217;s finals session at the USA Winter National Championships as Katie Ledecky cruised to victory in the 400 free, winning in 4:00.35, nine seconds ahead of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3915,"featured_media":320897,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[72496,72494,42657,25031],"class_list":["post-339986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-usa","tag-2018-u-s-winter-national-championships","tag-2018-u_s_-winter-national-championships","tag-hali-flickinger","tag-katie-ledecky"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.3 (Yoast SEO v24.3) - 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