Australian swimmer Ariarne Titmus, Olympic champion in the 200m and 400m in Tokyo, surpassed American Katie Ledecky’s 400m freestyle world record by six hundred parts of a second on Sunday at the Australian Championships in Adelaide.
Two days after approaching 33 hundredths of Italian Federica Pellegrini’s 200m world record, Ariarne Titmus swam the 400m on Sunday in 3 min 56 sec 40/100, erasing Katie Ledecky’s former best mark (3: 56.46 ), founded at Rio Games in 2016.
I never thought I would do this, knowing how to swim faster than the Olympic trials and Olympics comment of 21-year-old swimmer after his career.
Titmus improved by nearly 3 tenths of a second (3: 56.69) his personal best he established in the waters of Tokyo in the 400m final, finishing with a flashy and breathless explanation until the end with Katie Ledecky.
He went on top, to the delight of his trainer, that photos of the poolside celebration circulated on social networks.
Announced the new world star in swimming at just 20 years old, he doubled the bet with gold in the 200m, bringing the competition to the line. terminator his nickname as referring to Arnold Schwarzenegger, returned from Japan with silver in the 800m and the bronze in the 4x200m relay.
My God, I have been enjoying swimming so much for the past six months, just practice without pressure and enjoy the sport he added.
This season, he decided to skip the Budapest World Championships (June 18-25), where he will not be defending his 400m crown won in 2019 in Gwangju (South Korea), to focus on the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham (July 29-Aug. 3), where it will be one of the main attractions.
Source: Radio-Canada
