Dressel Picks Up Second American Record on the Day, Goes 22.06 50 Fly (SCM)

2019 INTERNATIONAL SWIMMING LEAGUE FINALE

  • Friday, December 20 – Saturday, December 21, 2019
  • 1:00 – 3:00 PM Local Time (U.S. Pacific Time)
  • Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino – Las Vegas, NV
  • Short Course Meters (SCM) format
  • Top 4 qualifying franchises: Energy Standard, London Roar, LA Current, Cali Condors
  • Live Stream (ESPN3)
  • Day 1 complete results

Minutes after setting the American and U.S. Open records in the 100 free, the Cali Condors’ Caeleb Dressel did the same in the 50 fly.

Dressel went 22.06 to win the event Saturday, besting his previous record of 22.21 from the College Park ISL meet last month. Energy Standard’s Chad le Clos took second in 22.48 and teammate Florent Manaudou was third in 22.53.

The record-breaking performance was Dressel’s third of the weekend. He set a world record in the 50 free Friday, going 20.24, then set an American and U.S. Open record of 45.22 in the 100 free earlier Saturday.

Watch Dressel’s race below:

In This Story

2
Leave a Reply

Subscribe
Notify of

2 Comments
newest
oldest most voted
Inline Feedbacks
View all comments
Louiggi
4 years ago

No breather…damn.

Ol’ Longhorn
4 years ago

Hit the turn for a change in SCM.

About Torrey Hart

Torrey Hart

Torrey is from Oakland, CA, and majored in media studies and American studies at Claremont McKenna College, where she swam distance freestyle for the Claremont-Mudd-Scripps team. Outside of SwimSwam, she has bylines at Sports Illustrated, Yahoo Sports, SB Nation, and The Student Life newspaper.

Read More »