Swimming – 17th FINA World Aquatics Championships – Women's Freestyle 1500m medal ceremony – Budapest, Hungary – July 25, 2017 – Katie Ledecky of the U.S. (gold) celebrates at the podium. REUTERS/Michael Dalder
BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Katie Ledecky, the brilliant 20-year-old American freestyler, is now older and wiser when it comes to completing one of swimming's most punishing session schedules.
At the 2015 world championships in Kazan, she competed in the women's 1500 metres final - an event now on the programme for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics - and little under 30 minutes later in the 200m freestyle semis.
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