WATCH: Caeleb Dressel Swim 21.3 in Skins Finale, Other ISL Naples Race Videos

2019 INTERNATIONAL SWIMMING LEAGUE: GROUP A, MATCH 2 – NAPLES

Caeleb Dressel made a statement in his first appearance at the International Swimming League this weekend, earning MVP, the $5,000 bonus check that comes with it, and the coveted triple-points (and triple-money) ‘skins’ race.

He wasn’t quite perfect – Chad le Clos pipped him by .01 seconds in the 100 fly – but the Condors couldn’t have hoped for much more from their captain and superstar in his first meet this weekend in Naples, Italy. Arguably his most impressive performance came in that meet-closing ‘skins’ event. Even with Energy Standard already in command of the team title for the weekend, Dressel was inexhaustable in the 50 free, swimming 21.05, 21.31, and 21.33 in the 3 rounds. He was dominant in the final ahead of France’s Florent Manaudou, who won last week but was 1.8 seconds back in the final this week.

Watch that final below, along with select other races from Naples, below:

Dressel (CAC) def. Manaudou (ENS) in men’s 50 free skins race:

Dressel vs. Manaudou in individual men’s 50 free

Sjostrom def. Energy Standard teammate Heemskerk for the 2nd-straight week in women’s skins finale

Le Clos (ENS) def. Dressel (CAC) by .01 in men’s 100 fly

Men’s 400 medley relay – Aqua Upset Lights Up Naples; Energy Standard DQ’ed

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Aquajosh
4 years ago

Wanna make the Skins even more exciting for dual meets? Give the winners the opportunity to activate a bonus points system (if they choose to) by swimming a fourth-round time trial on four minutes that has to be under a certain, not easily attainable time standard. If they choose to go for it and don’t hit it, they lose half the points they won in the Skins race. This would make the tighter team battles much more interesting to watch.

oldtigerimer
4 years ago

Has anyone ever done an study of how much time Dressel gains on starts and turns? I’m a dinosaur, with limited education in statistics and data analysis, but the precise answerer seems to me to be… a lot.

Harambe
4 years ago

Hot Take: the skins swims should be super-suit eligible. I want to see Dressel in a Jaked. I don’t care if the race doesn’t count, it would be so cool to see the modern stars mess around with the forbidden fruit of the full body suit

Swimmer32
Reply to  Braden Keith
4 years ago

I want to see the super suits back!!

Jane Dressel's Vertical Leap
4 years ago

Go Energy Centurions!

Joking aside, I am totally sold on the ISL meets. Not that I needed much convincing. The athletes seem so into the team format and it’s amazing to see such top-caliber talent swimming against each other at this time of year.

ArtVanDeLegh10
4 years ago

I believe they swim every 3 mins

Wondering
4 years ago

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Ol' Longhorn
4 years ago

Troy’s favorite sprint workout, according to a recent article, is 60 X 25 SCYs from the blocks on :60, with Dressel keeping them all under 9 seconds to the feet. Skins races are a comparative walk in the park.

PACFAN
Reply to  Ol' Longhorn
4 years ago

Is this real

swimmerswammer
Reply to  PACFAN
4 years ago

No way. I mean… I believe he did the set… and I believe Troy had a stopwatch that maybe said 8.xx every time. But absolutely no way did he legitimately go under 9.00 with electronic timing to the feet 60 times with less than a minute to get out and walk back every time.

He ‘only’ goes out in 8.48 at NCAAs in his record setting swim. His other splits that day were 8.54 and 8.74. Nobody else at the meet even went under 9.00 at all. If you believe he did this set then you’d have to believe he can go 18 low any day of the week (ie every single dual meet ever); spoiler alert: he doesn’t.… Read more »

Max Polianski
Reply to  swimmerswammer
4 years ago

If you know Troy (or any other coach) then, 60×25 would be a workout that he would do towards the end of a season (after dual meet season is done) – possible that he might not be under 9.00 every time, but, we also said going under 18 would be almost impossible, yet here we are.

eagleswim
Reply to  swimmerswammer
4 years ago

I’d guess that the reality is “9 seconds or lower” as in 9.99 or faster. Plus I’m pretty sure UF has blocks at both ends, so we’re not talking about a walk-around.

swimmerswammer
Reply to  eagleswim
4 years ago

But if you read the article it says both “:8- to the feet” and “get out and walk around”

Philip Johnson
4 years ago

I know Florent has been out of swimming for awhile, but to destroy an Olympic champ like that in a 50 race is pretty amazing.

Dudeman
Reply to  Philip Johnson
4 years ago

Manadou never had to worry about swimming back to back races like this before. Dressel is one of the best to ever swim the NCAA and race multiple events in a very short time frame so he is pretty much made for this racing format

spectatorn
Reply to  Philip Johnson
4 years ago

Dressel’s round 3 is only 0.02s slower than round 2. That’s something special.

ERVINFORTHEWIN
Reply to  Philip Johnson
4 years ago

after the start’s full dive in & breakout , it was already over ! Amazing

samesame
Reply to  Philip Johnson
4 years ago

I really think Florent being out for so long has everything to do with why he lost

swimgeek
Reply to  samesame
4 years ago

… by that much. This format is tailor-made for CD

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