Caeleb Dressel No-Shows 50 Fly Heats In Hangzhou

2018 FINA SHORT COURSE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS

  • Tuesday, December 11th – Sunday, December 16th
  • Hangzhou, China
  • Tennis Centre, Hangzhou Olympic & International Expo Center
  • SCM (25m)
  • Prelims: 9:30 am local, 8:30 pm ET / Finals: 7:00 pm* local, 6:00* am ET
  • *The final night of finals will be one hour earlier, starting at 6:00 pm local and 5:00 am ET
  • Live Results (Omega)

Caeleb Dressel of the United States didn’t show for his heat of the men’s 50 fly during day 4 prelims in Hangzhou. The American Record holder in the long course 50 fly (22.76), Dressel was expected to challenge for the gold medal against the likes of world record holder Nicholas Santos and defending champion Chad Le Clos.

The 22-year-old swam his first individual final of the Championships on day 3, winning silver behind Le Clos in the 100 fly in a time of 48.71.

The scratch is a bit of a surprise, but he does have a relatively busy schedule slated for tonight’s finals session, with the finals of the 4×50 free relay, the individual 50 free final, and potentially even the 4×200 relay. When the final for this event rolls around, he’ll likely have the men’s 4×50 medley and the 100 free semis shortly beforehand.

Thus far, Dressel has had a successful meet, with three gold medals in the men’s 4×100 free, the mixed 4×50 free and the mixed 4×50 medley relays, along with that silver in the 100 fly. All three of those relays were also world records, and he’s also broken the American Record twice so far in the 50 free.

In his absence, Santos qualified 1st for the semi-finals in a time of 22.41, followed by Dylan Carter (22.53) of Trinidad and Tobago and Marius Kusch (22.59) of Germany. Le Clos was 4th in 22.67.

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tea rex
5 years ago

After practicing a few open turns, I bet Ryan Held could have thrown dow a 22 low. He’s been en fuego this week.

swimmer!
5 years ago

He’s not shaved or tapered so he needs the extra energy for the 50 Free

Mr O
Reply to  swimmer!
5 years ago

Why wouldn’t he be shaved or tapered?

Dcswim
5 years ago

Chad snatched Caeleb’s wig in the 100 fly, so he couldn’t possibly swim against him again at this meet.

E Gamble
5 years ago

I hope they don’t have.Caeleb anywhere near that 200 free relay. He still has four more individual swims left.

Jpsteady
5 years ago

All that high volume work and he cant do a couple more 50’s? According to MA haters they arent even real events. And why back down from racing le clos again? Step up and race like a man.

Swammer
Reply to  Jpsteady
5 years ago

Or step up and race Morozov.

Swimdude
Reply to  Jpsteady
5 years ago

Maybe he thought it was a bad idea to have to keep workshopping his open turns at a world championship especially with a relatively busy schedule and a bigger relay workload than MA as it is. And I also don’t think he’s afraid of stepping up against a fast swimmer, we saw him go from losing to Schooling one year to coming back on him the next to cooking everyone a year later.

Dangus
Reply to  Jpsteady
5 years ago

Pretty bold sitting behind your home computer telling the fastest human ever to “step up and race like a man”

Caleb Dressel Will Win 7 Golds in Tokyo
5 years ago

YOU WERE THE CHOSEN ONE!

Buddy

Every day I watch, as you stole my swimswam comment username ^^^. Loser, I came up with it first ):

Buddy
Reply to  Buddy
5 years ago

And you didn’t even spell his name right.

CAELEB DRESSEL WILL WIN 7 GOLDS IN TOKYO
Reply to  Buddy
5 years ago

Tell me about it

Paul
Reply to  Buddy
5 years ago

You think you got username stealing problems…

Caeleb Dressel Will Win 7 Golds in Tokyo
Reply to  Buddy
5 years ago

Actually I had the username for the past year since worlds. I changed it to Caeleb Dressel Will Win 8 golds…, then 9 golds, then back to 7, hence the incorrect spelling. Sorry bud.

Swammer

disappointing for us but this clears up his schedule which should allow him to preform better in other places. Understood

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James swam five years at Laurentian University in Sudbury, Ontario, specializing in the 200 free, back and IM. He finished up his collegiate swimming career in 2018, graduating with a bachelor's degree in economics. In 2019 he completed his graduate degree in sports journalism. Prior to going to Laurentian, James swam …

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