PARIS: Katie Ledecky shrugged off her disappointing 400 metres freestyle bronze to top qualifying for the 1,500m final at the Paris Olympics on Tuesday (Jul 30) as Leon Marchand mania returned to a buzzing La Defense Arena.
Paris 2024 Olympics - Swimming - Women's 1500m Freestyle - Heats - Paris La Defense Arena, Nanterre, France - July 30, 2024. Katie Ledecky of United States in action. REUTERS/Marko Djurica
The time was nearly four seconds better than the second quickest swimmer, Italian Simona Quadarella, who was runner-up to Ledecky at last year's World Championships in Fukuoka. The 200m butterfly world champion in Fukuoka eased into the semi-finals with the sixth fastest time in the heats and soon dived back in to be third quickest into the 200m breaststroke semis.
Evergreen Swede Sarah Sjostrom was fastest into the women's 100m freestyle semi-finals ahead of Siobhan Haughey of Hong Kong. Pallister's setback came after Briton Adam Peaty tested positive on Monday, hours after narrowly missing out on a third successive 100m breaststroke gold.
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