{"id":47051,"date":"2014-01-18T11:34:58","date_gmt":"2014-01-18T18:34:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/?p=47051"},"modified":"2015-08-22T11:12:03","modified_gmt":"2015-08-22T18:12:03","slug":"video-katie-ledecky-clocks-in-season-best-in-400-free-in-austin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/video-katie-ledecky-clocks-in-season-best-in-400-free-in-austin\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Katie Ledecky Clocks In-Season Best in 400 Free in Austin"},"content":{"rendered":"

Special thanks to ArenaUSA<\/a> for proudly sponsoring our coverage of the Arena Grand Prix circuit. For all of our coverage and more, please visit our event coverage page<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n

AUSTIN, Texas, January 18. IN a loaded finale, Katie Ledecky posted an in-season best by breaking 4:05 with a blazing time of 4:04.46 in the women’s 400-meter free at the Arena Grand Prix in Austin. Her previous best time in-season came at the Mesa stop of the Arena Grand Prix last year with a 4:05.21 from last April.<\/p>\n

This is the first time that Ledecky has broken 4:05 outside of the championship season, where she has an amazing lifetime best of 3:59.82 that is the best time in textile ever. Ledecky split the 400 free this evening 58.59, 1:00.93, 1:03.22, 1:01.72 en route to her 4:04.46. She dusted the rest of the field that was pretty loaded.<\/p>\n

NBAC’s Lotte Friis, the Danish swimmer now training in Baltimore after undercutting the 1500 free world record in Barcelona last year but finishing second to Ledecky, wound up a distant second this evening in 4:09.35.<\/p>\n

IX3’s Chloe Sutton, who is looking towards another Pan Pacific Championship year being a good omen, finished third in 4:12.11. Sutton’s top effort at the international level is a gold medal in the 400 free at the Pan Pacific Championships in 2010.<\/p>\n

Longhorn’s Quinn Carrazzo raced to fourth in 4:14.66, while Canada’s Savannah King earned fifth in 4:15.91. Isabella Rongione, just 14, who recently moved to NCAP to train with Ledecky after previously swimming with The Fish, placed sixth in 4:16.02. She just missed her lifetime best of 4:15.79.<\/p>\n

North Carolina’s Madison Homovich, a 13-year-old to watch out for, took seventh in 4:16.22. That’s another lifetime best, beating the 4:17.12 she clocked this morning. Heading into the day, Homovich had never broken 4:20. NCAP’s Megan Byrnes rounded out the championship field with a 4:19.04.<\/p>\n

Lakeside’s Leah Stevens claimed the B final going away with a 4:16.10. The closest finisher was Frisco’s Gabrielle Kopenski with a 4:18.20, which still managed to shave a few seconds off her lifetime best of 4:21.29.<\/p>\n