As reported by SwimSwam editor-in-chief, Braden Keith:
The Bolles Schools’ Caeleb Dressel swam a wildly different race in the A-final of the men’s 100 free on Tuesday at the 2013 US World Championship Trials than he did in the prelims.
But like we see from sprinters like Anthony Ervin and Ryan Lochte, who are some of the best sprinters in the country, there’s room even in a sprint for the great ones to toy with their pacing over 100 meters, and that’s exactly what Dressel did en route to re-breaking his 15-16 National Age Group Record in the men’s 100 free from prelims.
He was a 49.63 in the morning, which he topped with a 49.50 in finals. Both times combined to break the 50.24 set in 1990 by Joe Hudepohl, who would go on to win a pair of Olympic relay gold medals.
The splitting from prelims to finals highlights a huge difference in pacing:
Dressel prelims: 23.45/26.18 – 49.63
Dressel finals: 23.74/25.76 – 49.50
Dressel may have come in 8th in the final, but he was by far the youngest in that race (half the age of the 32-year old Anthony Ervin, the oldest in the A-Final) and was swimming against 7 Olympians and 27 Olympic medals from the rest of the final combined, so this can easily be deemed a quality learning experience against some of the best.
Nathan Adrian won the race in 48.10, and Jimmy Feigen was 2nd in 48.24.
Video edited by Coleman Hodges.
Surprised to hear that he didn’t have the 50 cut after being the first 15-16 swimmer under 20 in the 50. I’m more excited to see what he throws down at that Bolles meet in the 50 than his swim in the 200, to be honest. Regardless, fantastic swim in that 100. This meet is showing a ton of promise for the young guys for the next 8 years or more.
He looks very confident ! Too bad we can’t hear about some more from him ….
Your videos are too short!
Not at all, to me. On the other hand, he looks more poised and articulate than Lochte did at that age, or even older.
I like the “even older” about Lochte.
Is it me or does he look really similar to a younger Lochte?