2019 MISSION VIEJO SWIM MEET OF CHAMPIONS
- June 20-23, 2019
- Mission Viejo, CA
- LCM (50m)
- Psych sheet
- Meet info
- Live Results
Caeleb Dressel swam a 47.97 in the men’s 100 free on Friday morning in prelims at the 2019 Fran Crippen Memorial Swim Meet of Champions. This continues a trend for Dressel this season of being much faster in-season than we’ve seen in previous years. At his last meet, the Atlanta Classic, he was 48.45 in prelims and 47.86 in finals. That prelims swim was the famous 24.1/24.3 nearly-negative split. Coming into this season, his fastest in-season swim was a 48.74 done in June of 2016, a few weeks before the Olympic Trials. Now he’s been under 48 twice this season before the World Championships.
This is all in the follow-up year to a 2018 season where his best time was just 48.13.
Other Prelims Highlights:
- Allison Schmitt qualified 1st in the 100 free in 55.84. Also in that A-final will be Beata Nelson, a short course star who has had less success in long course, in 55.99. That’s her first time under 56 seconds.
- China’s Ye Shiwen led prelims in the women’s 200 fly in 2:11.34.
- Annie Lazor, who has hit best times in basically every meet over the last 6 months, cruised to a 2:31.46 in the women’s 200 breaststroke in a relatively slow morning session.
- Jonathan Gomez swam 2:00.00 to lead qualifying in the 200 fly. Arizona undergrad Brooks Fail swam 2:00.28 and Tom Shields swam a 2:00.71.
- China’s Yan Zibei led qualifying in the men’s 200 breaststroke in 2:11.94, followed by defending Olympic Champion Dmitry Balandin in 2:12.78. Those two were far-separated from the field.
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2018 was a good year to have an off-year. No major championships that year. And he still managed to make the team.
You can’t be at 200% each year if you want to have a successful long career.
Dressel is gonna be a monster at next worlds.
Good to see you back Bobo 🙂
Everyone seems to be a little quiet after the final.
Probably combination of things. Finished on half stroke plus he probably doesn’t have the speed right now and went out too fast
And now come the excuses in 3-2-1.
47.90 cuz of the icebath
No , i think its because of heavy training + outside pool .
He went 47.90 in the final. Out in a 22.73.
Video link to Dressels 100 Free final
https://twitter.com/ocvarsityguy/status/1142232736532271105?s=21
He looked tired…and went 47.9
Troy is prepping him good ….heavy training if he is tired like that
47.90 in finals
22.73/25.17
47.90 without tucking in his strings
47.90