Produced by Coleman Hodges.
Reported by Tony Carroll.
Caeleb Dressel is not only emerging as one of the nation’s best up-and-coming sprinters, but he’s climbing his way up the world rankings as well. Dressel won the men’s 50 freestyle tonight with the third fastest time in the world this year behind Florent Manaudou andNathan Adrian. Dressel touched the wall tonight in 21.53, breaking the 17-18 National Age Group Record as well.
Cullen Jones finished second with his time of 21.87, and Josh Schneider finished third at 21.92.
Michael Chadwick just missed hitting 21 seconds with his time of 22.03. William Copeland and Kyle Darmody weren’t far behind him at 22.25 and 22.35, respectively.
Wyatt Ubellacker and Michael Trice topped off the A final with 22.4’s.
Roland Schoeman won the B final at 22.28 and Michael Andrew won the 18&u final with a 22.37, just missing his National age group record by .03.
So now the USA have, what, 5 swimmers who went sub 22 in the 50 free in 2015 alone? Maybe the state of USA sprint is not so dire. I know that the 50 are not the 100, but still …
I would rather have some 100 studs.
that will come ! one year will work it’s magic to bring on 2,3 very good 100 freestylers .