FILE PHOTO: Swimming – 17th FINA World Aquatics Championships – Women's 800m Freestyle preliminary – Budapest, Hungary – July 28, 2017 – Katie Ledecky of the U.S. competes. REUTERS/Stefan Wermuth
TOKYO (Reuters) - Five-time Olympic gold medallist Katie Ledecky beat one resurgent teenager but lost to another on a dramatic first day of the Pan Pacific Swimming Championships on Thursday.
The American comfortably held off Australia's Ariarne Titmus to set a championship record in the 800 metres freestyle and win the opening race before 18-year-old Canadian Taylor Ruck set a meet record to beat Ledecky who finished third in the 200.
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