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Katie Ledecky Clinches Seventh Consecutive 800m Title With Championship Record

Her 8:05.62 swim seized a new championship mark, shortly before the U.S. team broke the mixed 4×100 freestyle relay world record.

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Swimming - World Aquatics Championships - Women 800m Freestyle Finals - World Aquatics Championships Arena, Singapore - August 2, 2025 Canada's Summer Mcintosh, Katie Ledecky of the U.S. and Australia's Lani Pallister in action during the final
Swimming - World Aquatics Championships - Women 800m Freestyle - World Aquatics Championships Arena, Singapore - August 1, 2025 Katie Ledecky of the U.S. in action during heat 3 REUTERS/Marko Djurica

Overview

  • Katie Ledecky won the women’s 800m freestyle at Singapore’s World Aquatics Championships, securing her seventh straight world title in 8:05.62 to set a new meet record.
  • Australia’s Lani Pallister touched in 8:05.98 to claim silver and Canada’s Summer McIntosh finished third in 8:07.29, ending McIntosh’s bid to match Michael Phelps’s single-meet golds record.
  • After battling a pre-meet gastroenteritis outbreak, the U.S. squad rebounded by swimming a world-record 3:18.48 in the mixed 4×100m freestyle relay, the second global mark of the meet.
  • Ledecky’s latest win extends her unbeaten streak in global 800m finals to 11 since 2012 and raises her career world titles total to 23, one shy of Michael Phelps’s all-time high.
  • With one day remaining, the championships conclude Sunday with finals including McIntosh’s 400m individual medley and other races that will decide the final medals.