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Caeleb Dressel Resets Florent Manaudou’s 50 Free (SCM) World Record at 20.24

2019 INTERNATIONAL SWIMMING LEAGUE – FINALE

  • Friday, December 20 – Saturday, December 21, 2019
  • 1:00 – 3:00 PM Local Time (U.S. Pacific Time)
  • Madalay 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 start lists

Swimming next to Florent Manaudou – the previous world record holder – at the 2019 ISL Grand Finale, the Cali Condors’ Caeleb Dressel reset the world record in the short course meters 50 free at 20.24.

Manaudou’s previous record of 20.26 was from the 2014 World Championships. Dressel owned the previous American and U.S. Open records at 20.43 (from 2018 Worlds) and 20.81 (from the College Park ISL meet).

The swim was Dressel’s third in under an hour. He had previously won the event twice this season (not including skins races) at the Naples (20.64) and College Park meets.

Energy Standard’s Manaudou was 20.69 for second place Friday, while London Roar’s Kyle Chalmers was third in 20.74.

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Gheko
4 years ago

Kyle actually equalled Cams Australian record of 20.75, so he did a PB!

Gheko
Reply to  Gheko
4 years ago

Actually he beat the record by 0.001sec in 20.74

SWISHER
4 years ago

1.88m? I thought he was over 1.90.

Admin
Reply to  SWISHER
4 years ago

He’s 6’3″ in yards and inches. Which converts to about 190cm. And there’s always fudging in heights of athletes, so don’t take any of it as law. He’s tall, but by swimmers standards certainly not a giant.

MR FLY
4 years ago

What a pity Morozov wasn’t there

swimgeek
4 years ago

This is nit-picking, but why is the headline “Re-Sets Manaudou’s Record” instead of “BREAKS the record” ? “re-sets” makes it sound like Dressel broke it earlier and is re-breaking it now.

Ken K
4 years ago

Dean Farris would have gone 18.9.

N P
4 years ago

Wow, Greg Troy’s expression when they panned to him… Looked like he was thinking, “Oh yeah, I mean frankly I’m surprised he didn’t break 20.”

Coach nobody
4 years ago

King Kyle is winning the Skins, you heard it here first!

Yup
Reply to  Coach nobody
4 years ago

Prince, not king….

Coach nobody
Reply to  Coach nobody
4 years ago

So easily triggered LOL

King Caeleb
Reply to  Coach nobody
4 years ago

Genuinely one of the worst takes I’ve seen on swimswam… Dressel is built for the skins

DLSwim
4 years ago

His incredible vertical leap ability translates into a very large velocity off the start and turn. He’s in a class by himself.

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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.

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