Swimming – 18th FINA World Swimming Championships – Women’s 400m Freestyle Final – Nambu University Municipal Aquatics Center, Gwangju, South Korea – July 21, 2019. Ariarne Titmus of Australia competes. REUTERS/Evgenia Novozhenina
GWANGJU, South Korea (Reuters) – Australian teen Ariarne Titmus shocked Olympic champion Katie Ledecky to win the 400 meters freestyle title at the world championships in Gwangju on Sunday.
The 18-year-old came home in a time of 3:58.76 ahead of Ledecky (3:59.97), who had been gunning for a fourth straight world crown in the event, with Leah Smith in third (4:01.29).
Reporting by Peter Rutherford; Editing by Pritha Sarkar
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