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Each day for the next week, we\u2019ll run a short piece that highlights Ledecky-related stats, numbers that place additional context on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/amid-historic-career-katie-ledecky-just-had-her-greatest-achievement-with-latest-world-record\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">her legendary career<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>For more than a decade,\u00a0<strong>Katie Ledecky<\/strong> has been breaking records. Her first world record came at the 2013 World Championships, but her national-record-setting ways began a year earlier when the then-15-year-old broke an 800 freestyle mark set by the great <strong>Janet Evans<\/strong> 22 years earlier.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, Ledecky has broken 17 total individual world records, with 15 in long-course meters plus two in short-course meters. Her first 14 long-course world records came during a span of under five years between July 2013 and May 2018. Ledecky&#8217;s two short-course world records came during the FINA World Cup tour in 2022, and she resumed her record-breaking ways in dramatic fashion last week.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Katie Ledecky&#8217;s Long-Course World Records<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>1500 Freestyle (LCM): 15:36.53, 2013 World Championships (July 30)<\/li>\n<li>800 Freestyle (LCM): 8:13.86, 2013 World Championships (August 3)<\/li>\n<li>1500 Freestyle (LCM): 15:34.23, 2014 Woodlands Senior Invite (June 19)<\/li>\n<li>800 Freestyle (LCM): 8:11.00, 2014 Woodlands Senior Invite (June 22)<\/li>\n<li>400 Freestyle (LCM): 3:58.86, 2014 U.S. Nationals (August 9)<\/li>\n<li>400 Freestyle (LCM): 3:58.37, 2014 Pan Pacific Championships (August 23)<\/li>\n<li>1500 Freestyle (LCM), 15:28.36, 2014 Pan Pacific Championships (August 24)<\/li>\n<li>1500 Freestyle (LCM): 15:27.71, 2015 World Championships (August 3, in prelims)<\/li>\n<li>1500 Freestyle (LCM): 15:25.48, 2015 World Championships (August 4)<\/li>\n<li>800 Freestyle (LCM): 8:07.39, 2015 World Championships (August 8)<\/li>\n<li>800 Freestyle (LCM): 8:06.68, 2016 Pro Swim Series Austin (January 17)<\/li>\n<li>400 Freestyle (LCM): 3:56.46, 2016 Olympic Games (August 7)<\/li>\n<li>800 Freestyle (LCM): 8:04.79, 2016 Olympic Games (August 12)<\/li>\n<li>1500 Freestyle (LCM): 15:20.48, 2018 Pro Series Indianapolis (August 16)<\/li>\n<li>1500 Freestyle (SCM): 15:08.24, 2022 FINA World Cup Toronto (October 29)<\/li>\n<li>800 Freestyle (SCM): 7:57.42, 2022 FINA World Cup Indianapolis (November 5)<\/li>\n<li>800 Freestyle (LCM): 8:04.12, 2025 Pro Swim Series Fort Lauderdale (May 5)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Additionally, Ledecky has set 34 individual American records during her career. Thirteen of those records came in short-course yards, 11 in freestyle plus Ledecky&#8217;s only records in the 400 IM. In addition to the 17 world records, she has broken two each in long-course meters and short-course meters.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Katie Ledecky&#8217;s American Records<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>800 Freestyle (LCM), 8:14.63, 2012 Olympic Games (July 28)<\/li>\n<li>400 Freestyle (LCM): 3:59.82, 2013 World Championships (July 28)<\/li>\n<li>1650 Freestyle (SCY): 15:15.17, 2013 Winter Nationals (December 7)<\/li>\n<li>500 Freestyle (SCY): 4:28.71, 2014 Washington Metro High School Championships (February 5)<\/li>\n<li>1650 Freestyle (SCY): 15:13.30, 2014 Winter Nationals (December 6)<\/li>\n<li>500 Freestyle (SCY): 4:26.58, 2015 Washington Metro High School Championships (February 6)<\/li>\n<li>1000 Freestyle (SCY): 8:59.65, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=eMRaOaRqaZU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2015 Nation&#8217;s Capital Invitational<\/a> (December 13)<\/li>\n<li>500 Freestyle (SCY): 4:26.46, 2016 Ohio State Invitational (November 18)<\/li>\n<li>1650 Freestyle (SCY): 15:03.92, 2016 Ohio State Invitational (November 20)<\/li>\n<li>500 Freestyle (SCY): 4:25.15, 2017 Pac-12 Women&#8217;s Championships (February 23)<\/li>\n<li>400 IM (SCY): 3:57.68, 2017 Pac-12 Women&#8217;s Championships (February 24)<\/li>\n<li>500 Freestyle (SCY): 4:24.06, 2017 NCAA Championships (March 16)<\/li>\n<li>1650 Freestyle (SCY): 15:03.31, 2017 Art Adamson Invitational (November 18)<\/li>\n<li>400 IM (SCY): 3:56.53, 2018 Pac-12 Championships (February 23)<\/li>\n<li>400 Freestyle (SCM): 3:54.06, 2019 ISL Series Indianapolis (October 6)<\/li>\n<li>400 Freestyle (SCM): 3:52.88, 2022 FINA World Cup Toronto (October 28)<\/li>\n<li>1650 Freestyle (SCY): 15:01.41, 2023 Florida Spring Senior Championships (March 12)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Week of Katie Ledecky Stats (Day One): All the Records of Her Storied Career One week after she stunningly lowered her world record in the 800-meter freestyle to 8:04.12,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":587649,"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,122077,7],"tags":[25031],"class_list":["post-611748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-americas","category-usa","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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