Katie Ledecky lapped the field (that's a more literal statement than it sounds) in the 800-meter freestyle on Friday night, shattering her own world record with a head-shaking 8:04.79 and winning by more than 11 seconds over the silver medalist.
Let's put that into context:
1. If you take the margin of victory in every single men's race in Rio, the combined time is 6.66 seconds. Ledecky's margin: 11.38 second.
2. Ledecky won gold medal in the 800m in London. Her time was almost 10 seconds faster on Friday.
3. Up until 1976, no man had ever gone faster than Ledecky.
4. Janet Evans lowered the 800 free record by 8.5 seconds in 1989. It took 19 years for anyone to break her record and she did it by two seconds. Katie broke that record and has already lowered it by 10 seconds. Read that again and let it sink in.
5. Usain Bolt will run the 100 meters in the time it took the second-place swimmer to touch after Ledecky.
6. The 19-year-old beat the last-place swimmer by 22.96 seconds. Every swimmer in the men's 50m freestyle final had a faster time.
7. The time would have finished 29th at the 2015 world championships in Russia. Twenty-ninth in the men's competition.
8. Ledecky is in the middle of this picture, coming toward you. The rest of the field is going a different way.
9. Since 2000, the men's 1,500 gold medalists have finished ahead of their respective silver medalists by nine seconds - combined. Ledecky, again, won by 11.
10. In Athens, the winning time in the 800 was 8:24.54, about 20 seconds slower than Ledecky's Rio time.10.
11. This was the second meter of the 800-meter race. It's the last time Ledecky would trail.
