2018 PAN PACIFIC CHAMPIONSHIPS
- Thursday, August 9 – Tuesday, August 14, 2018
- Tokyo Tatsumi International Swimming Center, Tokyo, Japan
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American Caeleb Dressel won his first gold medal of the 2018 Pan Pacific Championships in the men’s 100 fly, breaking Michael Phelps‘ meet record in a time of 50.75.
Phelps had set the Pan Pac standard back in 2010 at the Championships in Irvine, clocking a time of 50.86. Dressel’s 50.75 takes that down by just over one-tenth of a second, and gives the reigning World Champion his sixth career swim under 51 seconds. Dressel went 50.50 at U.S. Nationals which is currently the fastest time in the world this year.
Comparing their splits on these swims, it’s clear how different the two swim this race, with Dressel being more of a 50/100 swimmer and Phelps primarily a 200m swimmer who can go up to 400 and down to 100.
Pan Pac Meet Record Split Comparison
| Phelps, 2010 | Dressel, 2018 |
| 24.03 | 23.35 |
| 26.83 | 27.40 |
| 50.86 | 50.75 |
Dressel won the World Championship title last summer in a time of 49.86, falling just .04 shy of Phelps’ 2009 world record (49.82). The 21-year-old also tied Phelps’ all-time record for gold medals won at a World Championship with seven, though Dressel did it with the addition of the mixed relays.
This was Dressel’s third medal of the meet, adding to a pair of bronze’s won in the 100 freestyle and the mixed medley relay. He’ll have a shot at another later in the session in the men’s 400 free relay, and he’ll also be in the hunt in the men’s 50 free and the 400 medley relay on the final day.
He won the silver in the 100 freestyle tied with Jack Cartwright, not the bronze.
Almost a whole second slower than last year…..
Don’t forget the guy just finished college has a change of lifestyle and scheduling to deal with as well as turning pro
I know. That puppy’s to blame.
Jane is adorable. love when dressel takes her swimming too
I’m a Caeleb Dressel fan through the good and the bad. His LCM swimming career is just beginning. He just turned pro and should be afforded the opportunity to figure things out. Dressel and Troy will figure this out. He’ll be ready next year. 🐊
One long course hit wonder
One meet does not make or break a career. It’s the long game that counts.
This is refreshing from all the excessive Caeleb Dressel fan club, don’t get me wrong im a fan too,but everyone on here is just too much and needed to be shut down.
The Schooling of 2017.
Incredible reminding that in 2010, when he didn’t train seriously, Phelps was capable to swim 50.86 at Panpacs and even better (50.6) at previous Nats.
And with the frustration to swimming many races vs the best Lochte ever (2010 and 2011 the best years in Lochte’s career).
And that between 2000 and 2016 there were few blips (2005 400 free when he apparently forgot how to swim and 100 free where he made the final in his 9th best even; ill-advised 2012 400 IM; and 2000 200 fly when he was a child) he was top 3 and usually winning every single time. It’s unfair to compare anyone to that. (Oh, and then he went 2:11 in 200 breast at 2015 US nationals HA.)..
Video of the race
https://youtu.be/V3yvHBJJTkI
A screener? I would like to watch the race video, but can hold out for the real thing.
Pretty embarrassing screen name about now, don’t you think?
His name was Seth Rich
Dressel breaks the meet record, guy is obviously over trained, need to switch to usrpt… right? Y’all realize that he is in super aerobic mode while training, as he should be for a good taper in 2020. He probably is barely doing the amount of anaerobic work that he will be doing the final year before the Olympics. I think everyone needs to realign their expectations. Team USA swims fast when it matters. What seems more important to swimmers, many gold medals at pan pacs, or many gold medals at the Olympics?
Dressel is amazing and swimming fine. To your point though it would be a great discussion or work for researchers to look at, but I question whether anyone is on a several year buildup/taper regimen. I could be wrong, but I just don’t buy this idea. I think a world class sprinter can build up and taper many times a year. But it would be great to discuss with the coaches whether they are on some kind of a several year cycle. If it took more than a season to build up we’d see more college swimmers dropping out more than the year before OTs to train.
They definitely train on a four year cycle. A lot of the coaches have talked about it before, especially Greg Troy. The reason you don’t see kids dropping out is because it’s entirely possible to train and go to school at the same time. A four year cycle doesn’t mean you never taper, tapering and going fast is part of the cycle. Lilly King actually even said in one of Cody Millers recent videos that she only tapers every four years. I don’t think we should take that literally, but these extra fast people are definitely training on a four-year plan.
So much time between Olympics. Next year i think he will smash WR’s
True, but this is his only chance to try a slate of events beyond 100 free, 100 fly and 50 free at an international taper meet pre-Olympics.
He seems fairly serious about 200 IM and 200 free based on interviews, but if he’s going to swim them in 2020, that will be the first time he ever does that at a big, international meet. If he does it, it will be a risk whether he can recover in time for everything.
It seems a bit of a missed opportunity from that point of view.
I mean, I guess fast being relative to the time, Matt Biondi won gold in the 50/100 and bronze in the 200 in Seoul ’88. He set the world record in the 50. But you are right, not under 22, but no one had ever been at that point.
No, but they need to make a decision whether he is a 100 and 50 swimmer (which he is LCM), and train accordingly, or whether to consider this foolishness of 200 free and 200 IM. No one ever that swam a fast 200 free or 200 IM could break 22 in the 50 free. Phelps couldn’t do it if he had fins on. They need to quit trying to make him Lochte and focus what he can be a GOAT in. And it’s not going to be 9 events.
IIRC, Cameron McEvoy swam 1:45 and 21.5 in 2016
Exactly. And look where he ended up in both events. Ol’ Longhorn’s point just made.
At 1998 World Champs Klim medalled in the 200 free, 100 free, 100 fly and 50 free. Obviously not sub 22, but that was an exceptional time then.
Only example I can think of swimming a world class 50 through 200 over a prolonged period is PVDH, but he was a pure freestyler (he went 22.03 in the 50 in Sydney, and won the 100 and 200).