Olympic superstar Ariarne Titmus sets new 400m freestyle WORLD record, beating Katie Ledecky’s time

Ariarne Titmus set a new 400m freestyle world document, breaking her arch-rival Katie Ledecky’s six-year stranglehold.

Titmus got here house in 3:56.40 on the Australian swimming championships in Adelaide on Sunday night time, simply six hundredths of a second sooner than the world document Ledecky had set on the Rio Olympics in 2016 when she gained in 3:56.46.

The American dominated the self-discipline till Titmus burst onto the scene final 12 months, profitable the 200m and 400m freestyle on the Olympics and claiming silver behind her rival within the 800m freestyle.

Ariarne Titmus set a new 400m freestyle world document in Adelaide on Sunday night time 

The Australian completed in 3:56.69 as she gained gold in Tokyo and on Sunday admitted the shortage of stress to carry out in a non-Olympic 12 months had helped her going sooner.  

‘I believe the most important factor because the Olympics was that […] I’ve this freedom, the stress’s off your again,’ the 21-year-old informed Amazon Prime after setting a new world document.

‘I’ve simply liked swimming prior to now six months and I believe going into coaching with no stress, simply having fun with the game, it’s underrated how necessary that’s.

Titmus got here house in 3:56.40 on the Australian swimming championships 

The Olympic champion beat Katie Ledecky’s earlier document by six hundredths of a second

‘Coming right here with no stress aside from the stress I placed on myself – which continues to be fairly excessive – it’s enjoyable to return right here and swim like that.’

The Tasmanian is the second swimmer to interrupt a world document on the Australian swimming championship after Zac Stubblety-Cook set a new quickest mark within the 200m breaststroke on Thursday night time.

Titmus can also be the primary Australian lady to carry the 400m freestyle world document since Tracey Wickham, whose benchmark stay unbeaten between 1978 and 1987.