Caeleb Dressel Becomes First Man to Break 18 in 50 Free; Smashes Records
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Florida senior Caeleb Dressel became the first man to break 18 seconds in the 50 free leading off the 4×50 free relay at the men’s NCAA championships. Dressel posted a time of 17.81, annihilating the previous American and NCAA record of 18.11 he set in the prelims of the individual event.
Florida ended up winning the relay in 1:14.39. A full recap of that event is to come.
Event 2 Men 200 Yard Freestyle Relay ================================================================================== NCAA: N 1:14.08 3/28/2009 Auburn J Andkjaer, G Louw, K Norys, M Targett American: A 1:15.26 3/24/2011 Stanford A Coville, A Staab, J Allen, A Wayne U. S. Open: O 1:14.08 3/28/2009 Auburn J Andkjaer, G Louw, K Norys, M Targett Championship: C 1:14.08 3/28/2009 Auburn J Andkjaer, G Louw, K Norys, M Targett Pool: P 1:14.71 3/15/2007 Auburn C Cielo, M Targett, S Goodrich, B Lundquist School Prelims Finals NISCA Points ================================================================================== === A - Final === 1 Florida 1:15.64 1:14.39P 594 40 1) Caeleb Dressel SR 2) r:0.26 Jan Switkowski SR 3) r:0.29 Enzo Martinez-Sarpe SR 4) r:0.29 Mark Szaranek SR r:+0.63 8.54 17.81 (17.81) 26.53 (8.72) 36.33 (18.52) 45.24 (8.91) 55.33 (19.00) 1:04.26 (8.93) 1:14.39 (19.06) 2 NC State 1:15.43 1:14.50P 591 34 1) Ryan Held SR 2) r:0.08 Justin Ress JR 3) r:0.23 Jacob Molacek JR 4) r:0.25 Coleman Stewart SO r:+0.61 8.96 18.56 (18.56) 27.06 (8.50) 36.87 (18.31) 45.67 (8.80) 55.54 (18.67) 1:04.47 (8.93) 1:14.50 (18.96) 3 California 1:15.36 1:14.56P 591 32 1) Justin Lynch SR 2) r:0.26 Pawel Sendyk SO 3) r:0.16 Ryan Hoffer FR 4) r:0.22 Michael Jensen SO r:+0.62 9.36 19.05 (19.05) 27.78 (8.73) 37.61 (18.56) 46.26 (8.65) 55.97 (18.36) 1:04.76 (8.79) 1:14.56 (18.59) 4 Texas 1:15.87 1:15.27 579 30 1) Brett Ringgold SR 2) r:0.18 Tate Jackson JR 3) r:0.28 Joseph Schooling SR 4) r:0.13 John Shebat JR r:+0.71 9.41 19.12 (19.12) 28.00 (8.88) 37.79 (18.67) 46.65 (8.86) 56.55 (18.76) 1:05.28 (8.73) 1:15.27 (18.72) 5 USC 1:16.05 1:15.72 570 28 1) Santo Condorelli SR 2) r:0.20 Dylan Carter SR 3) r:0.21 Ralf Tribuntsov SR 4) r:0.27 Kyle Grissom JR r:+0.65 9.10 18.98 (18.98) 27.84 (8.86) 37.67 (18.69) 46.44 (8.77) 56.51 (18.84) 1:05.36 (8.85) 1:15.72 (19.21) 6 Stanford 1:16.44 1:16.23 561 26 1) Sam Perry SR 2) r:0.22 Andrew Liang SR 3) r:0.31 Alberto Mestre FR 4) r:0.27 Brad Zdroik FR r:+0.60 9.21 19.26 (19.26) 28.12 (8.86) 38.18 (18.92) 47.25 (9.07) 57.20 (19.02) 1:06.18 (8.98) 1:16.23 (19.03) 7 Florida St 1:16.13 1:16.27 561 24 1) Will Pisani JR 2) r:0.08 Chad Mylin SR 3) r:0.18 Joseph Plechy SR 4) r:0.22 Kanoa Kaleoaloha JR r:+0.65 9.26 19.36 (19.36) 28.21 (8.85) 38.33 (18.97) 47.27 (8.94) 57.44 (19.11) 1:06.19 (8.75) 1:16.27 (18.83) 8 Michigan 1:16.46 1:16.30 561 22 1) Paul Powers SR 2) r:0.16 Gus Borges FR 3) r:0.20 James Jones SO 4) r:0.31 James Peek SR r:+0.62 9.22 19.24 (19.24) 27.95 (8.71) 37.99 (18.75) 47.14 (9.15) 57.29 (19.30) 1:06.20 (8.91) 1:16.30 (19.01)
Barely human, that one.
Oh my and he beat it again! 17.63!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Dude is an absolute BEAST. ?
Amazing…congratulations
INSANITY
Patrick Bohen Karen Berkes Graeber Brad Callahan Raymond Lomax
Sprinters have come a long way….. wow!!
All events are smoking fast! A guy just won the 500 Free with a 4:08?
Holy cow!!
Crazy
Omg!! The new sprinting GOAT!! Amazing. Where is the video??
Swimswam has the video. https://swimswam.com/watch-caeleb-dressel-go-mind-boggling-17-63-in-50-free/
But he’s way more than a Sprinter these days too….
Not human, lol! Congrats!!
David Jessen
All events are smoking fast! A guy just won the 500 Free with a 4:08?
MONSTER!! Congrats!!
Wtf are these guys eating?!?! Not human
Twice
?
WoW ?
Mathew Mixon ???
George Dorrington Joseph Stewart Jed Kai Morland
Charlie Cox Hamish Smith Donovan LeeMax Carleton bruh
Ruben Stam
Is this freakin’ real????
Dude He is a BEAST
?????
Alice O’Leary McClenahan Betsy Bacher Mulvehill Scott Zaprowski !!!!! Julie Nations!!! CRAZY
Speechless. ??
Julie Nations I think he would lap me in a 50!!!!!
Michael Green
Lachlan Byrne
Wow??
Georgia Rios that is insane!! ?
Alyssa San Lucas holy. shit.
Fantastic!!!!!
Mclaine Espeña the next goat?
Dung
Toby Yap Rull
Kyle when you gonna be like this
Man u already know im on the grind 3 days a WEEK
“Month”
Tim Allen …WOW
Saw both those swims live last night! They were both absolutely amazing!
Just 1.01 seconds ahead of second place. ?
Magnus Kjær Lerche så hurtigt er du dog heller ik endnu ?