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Katie Ledecky won the 1500m freestyle by 77 seconds at the Fort Lauderdale Open, extending her 15-year win streak in the event. She recorded a time of 15:25.62, the fifth-fastest in history.
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Katie Ledecky won the 1500m freestyle by 77 seconds to extend a 15-year, 40-plus-meet win streak in the event to start the Fort Lauderdale Open on Wednesday.
Ledecky clocked 15 minutes, 25.62 seconds â the fifth-fastest time in history, giving her the top 13 times ever â at the same pool where she broke the 800m free world record a year ago.
Ledecky, 29, lapped every swimmer in her heat Wednesday, facing a field with nobody else older than 17. Her closest pursuer was 15-year-old Sydney Hardy, who touched in 16:42.76.
Ledecky has won two Olympic gold medals, six world titles and more than 40 consecutive finals in the 1500m free (long course) â 46 by my hand count of USA Swimming's database â since her last defeat in the event at the July 2010 Potomac Valley Championships in her native Maryland.
Ledecky, then 13, was defeated by Kaitlin Pawlowicz, then 17.
â(Ledecky) was leading and her cap came off,â Pawlowicz said in 2016, according to Yahoo Sports.
The Fort Lauderdale Open, which runs through Saturday, is headlined by Ledecky, plus the world's other top swimmers â Canadian Summer McIntosh and Frenchman Leon Marchand.
At this same pool last May, Ledecky broke her own world record in the 800m freestyle (8:04.12) and registered, at the time, the second-fastest 1500m free in history (15:24.51).
Then this past January, Ledecky swam 15:23.21. Her 1500m free world record is 15:20.48 from May 2018.
Also in Fort Lauderdale in 2025, Gretchen Walsh broke her own world record in the 100m butterfly in both the morning preliminary heats and the evening finals.
Ledecky and Walsh are entered in those same events this week â the 800m free and 100m fly are both on Saturday.
Ledecky and McIntosh are both entered in the 400m free (Thursday) and 200m free (Friday), setting up possible head-to-head finals showdowns.
Marchand is entered in the four events he won at the Paris Olympics: 200m fly (Thursday), 400m individual medley (Friday), 200m breaststroke (Saturday) and 200m IM (Saturday).
Other individual Olympic gold medalists in the field include Kate Douglass, Simone Manuel, Bobby Finke and Caeleb Dressel, plus Hubert Kos of Hungary.
Swimmers are preparing for this summer's major international meets â the Pan Pacific Championships in Irvine, California, for nations outside Europe and the European Championships in Paris, both in August.
Katie Ledecky has won over 40 consecutive finals in the 1500m freestyle, with her last defeat occurring in July 2010.
Ledecky clocked a time of 15 minutes, 25.62 seconds, marking the fifth-fastest time in history.
Her closest competitor was 15-year-old Sydney Hardy, who finished with a time of 16:42.76.
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