Swimming-Ledecky breaks 800m freestyle short-course world record

(Reuters) – Ten-times Olympic medallist Katie Ledecky broke her second world record in just over a week on Saturday, beating the all-time women’s short-course time in the 800 metres freestyle at the Indianapolis FINA World Cup meeting on Saturday.

The American led from the start and finished in 7:57.42, shaving nearly two seconds off the previous mark set by Spain’s Mireia Belmonte in 2013.

Canadian Summer McIntosh took second in 8:07.12.

Ledecky, who earned her third straight Olympic gold in the 800m freestyle in Tokyo last year, smashed the short-course world record in the 1,500 metres freestyle by nearly 10 seconds the previous Saturday.

(Reporting by Amy Tennery in New York; Editing by Ken Ferris)