A teenager grabbed his first title, while a veteran of swimming reclaimed her throne in the first two finals of the World Championships yesterday in Budapest. David Popovici, a 17-year-old Romanian, seized the men’s 200m freestyle title in 1min 43.21sec to break the world junior record he set in qualifying. “My goal was to go as fast as I can,” he said. Katie Ledecky, who reclaimed the 1,500m women’s freestyle title, finishing almost 15 seconds ahead of her closest pursuer, said her approach was similar. “I was having a good one, the goal was to just lock into a pace,” she said. In the women’s 100m backstroke final, American Regan Smith retained her title by edging Canadian Kylie Masse. Pop
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