{"id":619987,"date":"2025-08-02T13:02:04","date_gmt":"2025-08-02T20:02:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=619987"},"modified":"2025-08-02T13:02:04","modified_gmt":"2025-08-02T20:02:04","slug":"second-european-record-a-sensational-return-for-simona-quadarella","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/second-european-record-a-sensational-return-for-simona-quadarella\/","title":{"rendered":"Second European Record a Sensational Return for Simona Quadarella"},"content":{"rendered":"

Second European Record a Sensational Return for Simona Quadarella<\/strong><\/p>\n

Simona Quadarella<\/strong> will leave Singapore this week without a gold medal at the 2025 World Aquatics Championships.<\/p>\n

The Italian will head home with two European records in her bag and something much more elusive: Claim to spoiling one of the great swimming statistics of all-time.<\/p>\n

For about five seconds on Tuesday, before Quadarella touched the wall in the final of the women\u2019s 1,500 freestyle, gold medalist Katie Ledecky<\/strong> could say that she owned the 25 fastest times in history. Her gold-medal winning result<\/a> of 15:26.44 slotting into the fifth spot in the voluminous annals of Ledecky\u2019s accomplishments in the longest pool event.<\/p>\n

Quadarella, though, interloped on that territory. In touching for silver in 15:31.79, Quadarella leapt to the second-fastest performer and the 12th-fastest time in history, a European record. And she forced Ledecky to stomach the much less tidy title of 25 of the 26 fastest.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m really happy and emotional about my race results,\u201d Quadarella said. \u201cAnd I\u2019m very proud that I managed to get so close to Katie.\u201d<\/p>\n

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