Swimming - 18th FINA World Swimming Championships - Women's 1500m Freestyle Preliminary - Nambu University Municipal Aquatics Center, Gwangju, South Korea - July 22, 2019. Katie Ledecky of the U.S competes. REUTERS/Stefan Wermuth
GWANGJU, South Korea (Reuters) - Katie Ledecky's withdrawal from the 200 and 1,500 metres freestyle put a huge dampener on the third day of the world swimming championships in Gwangju with a major question mark now hanging over the unwell American for the rest of the meet.
Ledecky had been gunning for four individual golds at the worlds but saw her run of three straight 400 titles ended by Australian Ariarne Titmus on Sunday, and USA Swimming have now said she would not defend her 1,500 crown later in the day.
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