2019 ATLANTA CLASSIC
- May 17th-19th, 2019
- Georgia Tech McAuley Aquatic Center, Atlanta, Georgia
- LCM (50m pool)
- Meet Information
- Psych Sheets
- Live Results
A day after showcasing his versatility with a 1:56.29 200 fly Saturday and forgoing the 50 free, Olympic sprinter Caeleb Dressel got back to his bread and butter Sunday night at the Atlanta classic, swimming the world’s third-fastest 100 free of the season.
In prelims, he nearly even split his way to the top qualifying spot for finals, going 48.45 with only .25 seconds separating his first and second 50s (24.10/24.35). In finals, he was 23.12/24.74 for a 47.86 – those splits are still relatively even for Dressel.
Dressel was the top finisher in Atlanta by well over a second; Dean Farris took second place in 49.29, and the only other finisher under 50 was Dressel’s Gator Swim Club teammate Corey Main in 49.98.
2018-2019 LCM MEN 100 FREE
DRESSEL
46.96
| 2 | Kyle CHALMERS | AUS | 47.08 | 07/25 |
| 3 | Ryan HELD | USA | 47.39 | 07/31 |
| 4 | Vladislav GRINEV | RUS | 47.43 | 04/09 |
| 5 | Maxime ROONEY | USA | 47.61 | 07/31 |
Dressel shaved half a second off Nathan Adrian‘s 48.29 meet record, set in 2016, and took almost a second off his own season best of 48.71 from March. His American record sits at 47.17, from the 2017 FINA World Championships. Prior to that swim, Dressel’s season-best was 47.97 from 2017 Summer Nationals. His 2018 best was 48.13 from the Pan Pacific Championships.
Watch the race below:
Glad to see our lord and savior Dean Farris as holding back in order to let underdogs like Dressel have their shot at glory. A true showing of selflessness if you ask me.
Ahhh, I see. That explains the answer to my question above. What a good sport.
Hold on… are you allowed to beat Dean Farris by that much in a race?!?!?!?
I guess so if you are the best swimmer in the world…. just saying.
“you can’t do that it’s illegal” lol
Man, he wasn’t in a brief?
Nobody expecting some tenths faster after Dressel’s huge 48.45 in the prelims splitting 24.1-24.35?
Obviously 47.86 is a great time but we already knew that this is a top-season for Dressel and this performance, excellent but not “out of the World” after what previously swum at this meet, is excellent to keep alive the questions: Dressel at Worlds will be in “last edition form” or even better? And if better, how much?
Think he’s “last addition” in 50/100 free, faster in the fly. He’s lost some inches off his vertical jump, so they’re trying to move the wedge up to improve his reaction time. He’s not going to get as much separation on the field (particularly Proud in the 50). 1:45 on the 800 free relay if he swims it. Then, according to PVDH, something like a 1:42 in the 200 fly swimming exhibition.
Don’t be putting false words in my mouth. He’d go sub 1:40
Last edition means he drops around 6 to 7 tenths of a sec in the 100 free from his performance in Atlanta. Better than last edition in the 100 fly means he drops more than 1.6 sec from his Atlanta swim. Big discrepancy.
i easily predict a 47 low if not lower ….+ 2 solid relay splits ( 46-47 + 1.45 )
Question is.. he never swims the 100 free on relay start.. so..
If anything we can say that by next summer Caeleb is equally as valid for the 800 relay as Lochte, as much as I like to imagine him training his tail for one last rodeo
What is Dressel’s final form?!?
Love the deck commentary. “Holy ….”
I’d just like everyone to look at the stands. Empty. I know this is a low key meet but this Caleb Dressel doing what Caleb Dressel does and there’s not even a live stream. I really hope he can do this kind of stuff in the ISL, between Dressel in season swim and Chalmers “in season” swim I think swimming is going to get a lot more interesting to a lot more people.
As I was watching the video, I thought the same thing. There was almost no one in the stands. Not even a local USS team or groups of parents or anyone. Pretty depressing.
There was actually a good amount of crowd on the first two days, many scratched finals sunday night which led to a very light crowd.
I would love to see his reaction. I’m curious to see if he was surprised.
Agreed. Just a friendly reminder to videographers out there: we already know the time (or can find it online) — but we’d love to see athlete reactions.
There wasn’t much of one in the moment. He seemed satisfied, but there was a very real, kind moment between Caleb and Coach Troy well after the race where they both seemed pleased with the result.
I may just be confusing some splash, but did he take a breath inside the flags? I realize thats usually blasphemy to indicate that CD would do such a thing in the last 5 meters, but if he did, just another easy place to take off a little more this summer
watched it closer, i retract my statement. I should have never doubted