{"id":40420,"date":"2025-05-02T04:48:21","date_gmt":"2025-05-02T04:48:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/02\/katie-ledecky-pips-summer-mcintosh-in-sizzling-400m-freestyle-fightback\/"},"modified":"2025-05-02T04:48:21","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T04:48:21","slug":"katie-ledecky-pips-summer-mcintosh-in-sizzling-400m-freestyle-fightback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/02\/katie-ledecky-pips-summer-mcintosh-in-sizzling-400m-freestyle-fightback\/","title":{"rendered":"Katie Ledecky pips Summer McIntosh in sizzling 400m freestyle fightback"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Ledecky beats McIntosh for another stunning win<\/li>\n<li>France\u2019s Marchand makes return to competition<\/li>\n<li>USA\u2019s Casas wins 100m freestyle, 50m backstroke<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>US freestyle great Katie Ledecky posted the second-fastest 400m free time of her storied career on Thursday, clocking 3min 56.81sec to run down Summer McIntosh for a second stunning victory in as many days at the TYR Pro Swim Series meeting in Florida.<\/p>\n<p>Ledecky, who posted the second-fastest 1,500m free time in history on Wednesday, overshadowed the return to action of Paris Olympic star Leon Marchand, who posted a personal best in finishing third in the men\u2019s 400m free in his first competition in four months.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2025\/may\/01\/katie-ledecky-comeback-summer-mcintosh\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ledecky beats McIntosh for another stunning win France\u2019s Marchand makes return to competition USA\u2019s Casas wins 100m freestyle, 50m backstroke US freestyle great Katie Ledecky posted the second-fastest 400m free time of her storied career on Thursday, clocking 3min 56.81sec to run down Summer McIntosh for a second stunning victory in as many days at &#8230; <a title=\"Katie Ledecky pips Summer McIntosh in sizzling 400m freestyle fightback\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/02\/katie-ledecky-pips-summer-mcintosh-in-sizzling-400m-freestyle-fightback\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Katie Ledecky pips Summer McIntosh in sizzling 400m freestyle fightback\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}