2024 PRO SWIM SERIES – KNOXVILLE
- January 10-13, 2024
- Knoxville, Tennessee
- LCM (50 meters)
- Start Times
- Wednesday Distance: 5pm (EST)
- All Prelims: 9am (EST)
- Thurs-Sat Finals: 6pm (EST)
- Meet Central
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- Live Results
- Wednesday Finals Heat Sheet
Kicking off the 2024 Olympic year at the Knoxville Pro Swim, Katie Ledecky swam away with a win in the 1500m freestyle, winning by nearly 100 meters. Ledecky clocked a 15:38.81, the 17th fastest time in history. Ledecky owns the other 16 fastest times in history, with her world record in the event sitting at 15:20.48.
As a young aspiring swimmer, I love Katie. I wish I was as good as she is.
I think most impressive is she probably hasn’t even swum the race more than 50 times since 2013 and has the top 17 performances ever
I didn’t watch the video attached to the article, but the graphic suggests she nearly lapped the field in a long course race at a pro series swim. That is nuts.
Ledecky is absolutely amazing. Sometimes I feel the general American public (and some sports specialists) don’t even know who she is and how good she is. If she was from another country she would be a goddess
I feel the opposite. SportsCenter shared, somewhat randomly, a graphic on their social media pages recently that showed her dominance in the 1500. I think it was just a list of the top 15 times in the event, and she owns all of them. All of the comments were exceptionally positive and could not believe how dominant she is.
Actually…outside of Michael Phelps, and Katie Ledecky, (and Ryan Lochte’s 2016 debacle), I rarely, if ever, see ESPN post ANYTHING about swimming (perhaps Lia Thomas for reasons). When Dressel broke Phelps world record and becoming on the 2nd person under 50 seconds in the 100 fly, there was nothing. Even with ESPN owning the SEC network when he did insane things like go 17 and 39 in the 50 and 100 free, there was nothing. No sports ticket mention…no segment dedicated to his accomplishments…quite literally, nothing.
I get it these day, networks own rights to certain sports, and ESPN gave up on actually trying to encompass all sports years, if not decades ago (and NBC owns most of the… Read more »
Because competitive swimming will never go mainstream and USA Swimming doesn’t have any intention to make swimming more popular.