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The 17-year-old won the final at Australia's Gold Coast in
three minutes, 58.37 seconds, slashing almost half a second off
the previous world record she set in California earlier this
month.
"It's a good feeling," Ledecky said in a poolside interview. "I
was just racing my best time and trying to swim faster."
Ledecky also holds the women's world record for 800m and 1,500m
freestyle.
(This story corrects age to 17 in second paragraph)
(Reporting by Julian Linden in Singapore; Editing by John
O'Brien)
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