Ledecky breaks own world record in 800m free, Canada's Kharun wins 100m fly at Tyr Pro Meet

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· Posted: May 04, 2025 9:29 AM EDT | Last Updated: 10 minutes ago

Katie Ledecky broke her nine-year-old satellite grounds successful the 800 metres to item Saturday's events astatine the Tyr Pro Swim Series conscionable successful Fort Lauderdale, Fla.

The 28-year-old American churned done the h2o successful 8:04.12, which eclipsed her satellite grounds clip of 8:04.79 accomplished astatine the 2016 Rio Olympics.

Ledecky had not breached immoderate satellite records since 2018, but she foreshadowed Saturday's show by swimming the world's second-fastest 1,500 connected Wednesday and delivering her second-fastest 400 connected Thursday.

Ledecky has earned Olympic golden successful the 800 4 consecutive times and intends to spell for a 5th astatine the 2028 Los Angeles Games.

Jillian Cox took 2nd successful 8:23.58 portion Claire Weinstein was 3rd successful 8:26.06. The 18-year-old Weinstein joined Ledecky, Paige Madden and Erin Gimmell connected the United States' 800 escaped relay squad that took metallic astatine the 2024 Paris Olympics.

Two-time Olympic golden medallist Gretchen Walsh broke her ain satellite grounds successful the 100 butterfly Saturday — twice. She edged her erstwhile champion of 55.18 during the greeting prelims (55.09), past shattered that people during the day finals (54.60).

Canadian prima Summer McIntosh was primitively scheduled to vie successful the 100m butterfly but did not race.

Kharun wins 100 alert successful personal-best time

Canada's Ilya Kharun set his 2nd Pro Swim Series grounds successful arsenic galore days connected Saturday, winning the men's 100m butterfly successful 50.42.

The 19-year-old from Montreal won by implicit a second-and-a-half portion clocking a idiosyncratic best, touching the partition up of Germany's Bjoern Kammann (51.95).

Kharun, who took bronze successful the lawsuit astatine Paris 2024, broke American Shaine Casas's previous record of 50.80.

Kharun won the 50m butterfly successful Canadian-record clip connected Friday.

Fellow Canadian Kylie Masse was 3rd successful the women's 100m backstroke last connected Saturday with a clip of 58.90, finishing down satellite grounds holder Regan Smith (57.46) and Katharine Berkoff (58.79) of the United States.