Katie Ledecky launched the Olympic 12 months with one other dominant victory within the girls’s 1500m freestyle on Wednesday on the Professional Swim collection assembly in Knoxville, Tennessee.
Ledecky’s time of 15min 38.81sec is the Seventeenth-fastest in historical past. She owns all the 16 sooner occasions with the second-fastest performer ever, Denmark’s Lotte Friis, now holding the 18th-fastest time ever of 15:38.88.
Ledecky, who owns 5 world titles within the occasion and received Olympic gold in Tokyo when the 1,500m free was added to the Video games’ program for ladies, touched 52.42sec forward of Aly Breslin, who was second in…