Katie Ledecky holds off Summer McIntosh in 400m free at Tyr Pro Meet

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American swimming large Katie Ledecky posted the second-fastest 400-metre freestyle clip of her vocation connected Thursday erstwhile she outlasted Canadian prima Summer McIntosh astatine the Tyr Pro Meet connected Thursday successful Fort Lauderdale, Fla.

Canada's McIntosh, 18, finishes conscionable 1.47 seconds down the American great

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· Posted: May 02, 2025 1:11 AM EDT | Last Updated: 9 minutes ago

A close-up presumption of 2 pistillate swimmers connected the excavation deck.

Katie Ledecky is showing disconnected Olympic signifier astatine this week's Tyr Pro Meet, the biggest signifier she's been connected since winning 2 golden medals and 4 medals wide successful Paris past summer.

The legendary swimmer posted the second-fastest 400-metre freestyle clip of her vocation connected Thursday erstwhile she outlasted Canada's Summer McIntosh astatine Fort Lauderdale, Fla.

Ledecky, 28, passed McIntosh successful the last 50m to triumph successful three minutes, 56.81 seconds, conscionable shy of her American grounds 3:56.46 acceptable erstwhile she won the lawsuit astatine the 2016 Olympics astatine Rio de Janeiro.

"I don't cognize if I ever thought I would beryllium 3:56 again," Ledecky said of the clip that rates arsenic seventh champion successful history. "All the recognition to Summer. It's ever a large contention erstwhile we're adjacent to each other. I'm conscionable truly blessed with each the enactment that I've enactment successful to get to this point."

McIntosh finished successful 3:58.28 portion American Claire Weinstein was 3rd successful 4:01.26.

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The Canadian's career-best time in the 400m escaped is 3:56.08, which she swam to astatine the Canadian Swimming Trials successful March of 2023. That gave McIntosh the world grounds astatine the time, but Australia's Ariarne Titmus holds the existent grounds at 3:55.38.

The conscionable runs done Saturday.

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With files from CBC Sports

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