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In the 1,500, There’s Katie Ledecky and Then There’s Everyone Else

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The last time that Katie Ledecky was beaten in a 1,500-meter freestyle event was a regional swim meet in Maryland 14 years ago.

Ledecky was in junior high school. The swimmer who finished more than five seconds ahead of her, Kaitlin Pawlowicz, was going into her senior year of high school.

“There’s not, like, a ton of details that I can recall,” Pawlowicz said recently.