2019 MISSION VIEJO SWIM MEET OF CHAMPIONS
- June 20-23, 2019
- Mission Viejo, CA
- LCM (50m)
- Psych sheet
- Meet info
- Live Results
After a breakthrough brace of 47.9s on Friday, World Champion Caeleb Dressel had a pair of more measured preliminary swims on Saturday morning in Mission Viejo at the Fran Crippen Memorial Swim Meet of Champions. Swimming heats of both the 50 and 200 freestyles, Dressel qualified 1st in each – opening with a 1:48.87 in the 200 free, and finishing his session with a 22.31 in the 50 free about 50 minutes later.
For context on the 200 free: he went his lifetime best in Richmond in April in that event of 1:47.31. In prelims of that meet, he swam just 1:49.67 – 8-tenths slower than he was on Saturday morning.
In the 200, he’ll be chased by a loaded field that includes Italian Olympian, turned American competitor, Mitch D’Arrigo (1:49.37) and one of Germany’s top talents Jacob Heidtmann (1:49.44).
In the men’s 50 free, it will be a battle of 2 of the best starters in the world, with Dressel lined up next to South Africa’s Brad Tandy (22.33) in the final. Ali Khalafalla qualified 3rd in that 50 in 22.61.
Other Saturday Prelims Highlights:
- China has the top 2 qualifiers in the 50 free with Zhang Yufei finishing the heats in 25.42 and Zhu Menghui finishing in 25.57. Allison Schmitt also qualified for the A final in that race with a 26.58.
- Jacob Pebley was the 2nd qualifier in the men’s 200 back in 2:02.62, just .15 seconds behind Arizona State’s Zachary Poti. Remember that in Pebley’s last meet, he beat the defending Olympic Champion Ryan Murphy in this event.
- The 2018 US National Champion in the 400 IM Ally McHugh qualified 1st through in that event to finals in 4:41.80 (pending results of the B flight). That made her the top qualifier by 9 seconds (and 3.4 seconds better than anybody else in the field’s seed time.
Christ 21.51
21.51
@Ol’ Longhorn
What did you do to him in the 200!!
Thats in Semis though
He went 22.1 in semis
1:50.59 for dressel looked like he was conserving energy for his two 50 Free’s later tonight
why there two 50 frees?
Semis and Finals
Rrriigghhhttt.
He definitely shut it down – his last 100 was the slowest of the final and he nearly went 29 on the last 50. Clearly he was saving for that 21.51 50.
Caeleb is just fine tuning for Worlds at this meet, do not expect anything sensational from him here, he will be solid though.
Are they doing semi and finals for the 50 free?
Don’t think so
Actually there are semi finals
SwimSwam — Can you please live stream them on Instagram again? Please.
Yes I will also videotape these races! 😉 Love, photographer Jack’s mom
1:46.88 & 21.78 tonight. You heard it here first.
Not if I have anything to say about it, and I do!
I see you’ve moved from Shields to Dressel.
I’ll take the under on the 2 free. His 200s have been really good & he seems to be fully there in terms of endurance. Maybe the 21.7 speed isn’t quite there this weekend, but he could pop a 1:46 low or even a 1:45 high tonite.
On a serious note, if Dressel goes 1:45 tonight, he is getting 8 gold medals in Tokyo. I say 1:46.9. He would definitely be 21.5 if he didn’t have the 200, but 21.7 does sound right. So I do agree with Tomato.
Wait, was there a motorcycle accident between prelims and finals?
Met him at Taco Bell before the meet. Said he wanted to loaf the 200 free to conserve energy for a 21.5 50 free, thus making Ol’ Longhorn pout and squirm.
Dressel eats at Taco Bell!? This justifies my dietary choices for the past few years!
Yes, and then he gave me his credit card number and social security number.
Oh…. my bad lol.
21.5
Why would he go the same time in prelims/finals in the 100 free but the next day drop 2 secs in the 200 free and over .5 in the 50?
Because it feels like an Arby’s night.
If I could upvote this more, I would
Because there is a difference between swimming 2 races a day of 100 each and swimming 4 races of 500 total.