Katie Ledecky won her third gold medal of the World Championships, taking the 200m freestyle over a field that included defending World champion Missy Franklin in Kazan, Russia, on Wednesday.
Ledecky clocked 1:55:16. Italian world-record holder Federica Pellegrini earned silver at 1:55.32, followed by Franklin for bronze in 1:55.49.
“It was a star-studded field, just glad that it all went well,” Ledecky told Michele Tafoya on Universal Sports. “I just felt a lot more recovered than yesterday. I was able to go out with the field.”
Ledecky, 18, has entered seven career Worlds events and won gold in all of them.