{"id":40563,"date":"2025-05-04T00:28:24","date_gmt":"2025-05-04T00:28:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/04\/katie-ledecky-smashes-her-longstanding-800m-freestyle-world-record\/"},"modified":"2025-05-04T00:28:24","modified_gmt":"2025-05-04T00:28:24","slug":"katie-ledecky-smashes-her-longstanding-800m-freestyle-world-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/04\/katie-ledecky-smashes-her-longstanding-800m-freestyle-world-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Katie Ledecky smashes her longstanding 800m freestyle world record"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>US swim star Ledecky smashes record set at Rio Games<\/li>\n<li>Gretchen Walsh sets world record in 100m butterfly<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Katie Ledecky broke new ground once again on Saturday, shattering her own world record in the 800m freestyle <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/USASwimming\/status\/1918803360876270001\">with a time of 8min 4.12sec<\/a> at the Tyr Pro Swim Series in Fort Lauderdale.<\/p>\n<p>The 28-year-old American improved on the 8:04.79 mark she set at the 2016 Rio Olympics, notching her first long-course world record since 2018 and reaffirming her dominance in the distance freestyle events.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2025\/may\/03\/katie-ledecky-world-record-800m-freestyle-tyr-swim-series\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US swim star Ledecky smashes record set at Rio Games Gretchen Walsh sets world record in 100m butterfly Katie Ledecky broke new ground once again on Saturday, shattering her own world record in the 800m freestyle with a time of 8min 4.12sec at the Tyr Pro Swim Series in Fort Lauderdale. The 28-year-old American improved &#8230; <a title=\"Katie Ledecky smashes her longstanding 800m freestyle world record\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/04\/katie-ledecky-smashes-her-longstanding-800m-freestyle-world-record\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Katie Ledecky smashes her longstanding 800m freestyle world record\">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-40563","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\/40563","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=40563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40563\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}