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WOMEN’S 400 IM – FINALS
The 400 IM came down to a duel between Canadian Mary-Sophie Harvey and America’s Katie Ledecky in the final 20 meters of the race.  Ledecky had the lead over Harvey by a body length and a half after the backstroke leg, but Ledecky fell off during breaststroke. She was fifth at the 300 mark and closed out the race splitting 59.5 in freestyle (which was almost two seconds faster than Harvey’s freestyle split), but it wasn’t enough to win. 17 year-old Harvey finished with a 4:38.05 while Ledecky swam a 4:38.16 – still over 4 seconds faster than her morning swim.
The B Final in the 400 IM was one of the youngest heats we’ve seen yet. Seven of the swimmers were 20 years-old or younger. The youngest of the field at 13 years-old was Mariah Denigan who finished third with a 4:54.95 and was just 0.01 off her personal best. Hannah Cox’s time was just off her life time best as well with a 4:50.89 and she went nearly nine seconds faster than her swim this morning.
Top 8
- Harvey, 4:38.05
- Ledecky, 4:38.16
- Cox, 4:40.37
- Margalis, 4:40.47
- Eastin, 4:41.19
- Anderson, 4:49.54
- Forde, 4:50.00
- Nguyen, 4:50.89
They are all going to by annihilated by a certain home favourite in Budapest 🙂
@DEE, MARKLEWIS:
Come on, gentlemen (is it gentlemen? 🙂 ) it was an interesting race with the multiple changes of leaders but still only 4:38 to talk much about it. Many swimmers can beat Ledecky at this event and such a feat doesn’t make them great.
Also it would be nice to use the full name of strokes whenever we speak about female swimmer. Like backstroke or breaststroke. Some readers can take literally what you are writing.
This is a swimming website, I’m sure everyone knows what they mean, no need for theatrics.
Am I the only one who thinks she looks incredibly similar to DiRado?
“The 400 IM came down to a duel between Canadian Mary-Sophie Harvey and America’s Katie Ledecky in the final 20 meters of the race. Ledecky had the lead over Harvey by a body length and a half after the backstroke leg, but Ledecky fell off during breaststroke. She was fifth at the 300 mark and closed out the race splitting 59.5 in freestyle (which was almost two seconds faster than Harvey’s freestyle split), but it wasn’t enough to win. 17 year-old Harvey finished with a 4:38.05 while Ledecky swam a 4:38.16 – still over 4 seconds faster than her morning swim.”
Big fan, Swimswam, but why is the write up all about Ledecky in an article where the heading seems… Read more »
It’s because in these articles they copy in the text from the finals recap. The bit about Harvey is the video.
Dee – Coleman just takes the event recap from the main live recap article. The only thing new here is the video at the top, not the article itself.
Mary-Sophie has a strong breast and freestyle. Her last 50 was under 30 seconds, holding off KL.
Like she said, she’s come a long way this year.
I want the Farris Harvey virus
farris was sick?