Katie Ledecky of the United States crushed her world record in the
400m freestyle to win Olympic gold on Sunday Aug 07,2016 and jump-start a
potentially historic Rio campaign.
The American phenom --
targeting a rare 200m, 400m and 800m Olympic freestyle treble -- surged
home to touch the wall in 3min 56.46sec, smashing her own world record
of 3:58.37 set in the Gold Coast, Queensland in 2014
Jazz Carlin of Great Britain won silver -- her 4:01.23 leaving her 4.77
seconds adrift. American Leah Smith took bronze in 4:01.92.
Ledecky (C) posed with silver medallist Britain's Jazz Carlin (R) and bronze medallist USA's Leah Smith (L) after the race
Ledecky (C) posed with silver medallist Britain's Jazz Carlin (R) and bronze medallist USA's Leah Smith (L) after the race
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