The Australian improved by six hundredths of a second the old reference time in the hands of Katie Ledecky.
Australian swimmer Ariarne Titmus, Olympic champion in the 200m and 400m in Tokyo, improved American Katie Ledecky’s 400m freestyle world record by six hundredths of a second on Sunday in Adelaide at the Australian Championships.
Two days after approaching 33/100th of Italian Federica Pellegrini’s 200m world record, Ariarne Titmus (21) swam the 400m on Sunday in 3 min 56 sec 40/100th, erasing the previous best Katie Ledecky’s mark (3:56.46), set at the Rio Games in 2016.
«I never thought I would do this, be able to swim faster than the Olympic trials and the Olympics“commented the swimmer after her race.
Titmus improved by almost 3/10ths of a second (3:56.69) on her personal best she set in Tokyo waters in the 400m final, the end of a sumptuous and breathless explanation to the end with Katie Ledecky .
She had ended up coming out on top, to the delight of her trainer, whose images of celebration at the edge of the pool had made the rounds on social networks.
Announced new star of world swimming at just 20 years old, she had doubled the bet with gold in the 200m, bringing the competition into line. “Terminator“, his nickname in reference to Arnold Schwarzenegger, had returned from Japan with in addition the silver of the 800 m and the bronze of the 4×200 m.
«My God, I’ve been enjoying swimming so much for the past six months, just going to practice with no pressure and enjoying the sport“, she added.
This season, she has decided to skip the Budapest World Championships (June 18-25), where she will not defend her 400m crown won in 2019 in Gwangju (South Korea), to focus on the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham (July 29-August 3), where it will be one of the main attractions.
