The American top swimmer Katie Ledecky broke the short course world record over 1500 meters freestyle at the swimming world cup in Toronto.
According to the World Swimming Federation Fina, the 25-year-old swam in 15:08.24 minutes on Saturday and was almost ten seconds faster than the German Sarah Wellbrock with the previous record of 15:18.01 minutes.
Wellbrock had set this up in 2019 at the German Short Course Championships under the name Köhler.
In 2021 she married Olympic swimming champion Florian Wellbrock.
For the seven-time Olympic champion Ledecky, it was the first race ever over this distance on the 25-meter track.
Breaststroke swimmer Anna Elendt from Frankfurt provided the highlight from a German perspective.
Over 100 meters, the world championship second on the long track improved her German record, which was only a few hours old, to 1:04.07 minutes and was third in the victory of Lithuania's world record holder Ruta Meilutyte (1:02.95).
Elendt was 47 hundredths faster than her previous record from the heat (1:04.54), with which she had pulverized the 13-year-old state record of Caroline Ruhnau from Essen (1:04.78).
Ledecky's dream time was the second fabulous world record over a long freestyle distance within a few days.
Only on Thursday did relay Olympic champion Li Bingjie beat Australia's Ariarne Titmus' 400 meter record by 2.62 seconds in 3:51.30 minutes at the Chinese short course championships.