In the SwimSwam Podcast dive deeper into the sport you love with insider conversations about swimming. Hosted by Coleman Hodges, Garrett McCaffrey, and Gold Medal Mel Stewart, SwimSwam welcomes both the biggest names in swimming that you already know, and rising stars that you need to get to know, as we break down the past, present, and future of aquatic sports.
We sat down with Justin Ress, the newly crowned 2x world champion in Budapest who went through a lot to earn those gold medals. Ress takes us through his perspective on getting DQ’ed in the 50 back final after touching first and then being told it was overturned after the medal ceremony.
Ress also goes deeper into his swim history and explains that his senior year of college, he was not a health athlete outside of the pool and was close to retiring after the 2021 Olympic Trials. ISL is what kept him in the sport and motivated him to keep reaching for his goals and become a better athlete in and out of the pool. After just 3 months of training, Ress went all best times at the US Trials in April, then came to Budapest and walked away with his first (and second) world title.
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Nice interview! He is an alum of my kids club team so been following him a while, so happy for his success. He is straightforward and such a nice guy, so happy to see him having fun and excelling. Thanks for an interesting interview.
What career is that exactly? Do 50backstrokers have career opportunities in swimming?
ISL has no season and looks doubtful long range. NBC just cancelled the Olympic channel.
You’re thinking the old-school American way, where Americans stay close to home so they can train train train, rather than competing.
Ress made $24,000 in prize money at the World Championships, from one meet. With Mare Nostrums, World Cups, SC World Championships, Sette Colli, Nordic Swim Tour, and all kinds of other European meets with prize money, a 50 backstroke can easily make 6 figures in a year in prize money alone. Add to that clinics and appearance fees and the fact that he’s still a good enough 100 backstroker to make the National Team and get a USA Swimming stipend, and he can do pretty well if he’s firing and chooses to live that life, even without ISL.
Get em Braden! Baby J Ress is just scratching the surface!
Fantastic athlete, great to see him continuing to improve.
I have no interest in listening to this, but does he at least acknowledge he very obviously should have been disqualified in both the heat and the semi?
He sorta did about the semi, said that finish was particularly long.
But in general it was mostly him saying he’s got v long arms, so by the time he ‘submerges’ he’d already finished a while ago. (I didn’t particularly buy it tbh.)
Shame you didn’t ask him about Dressel
Very good interview! Justin seemed to be giving honest answers. Traveling and getting Covid sucks!
Any pics of him at 250? I can see him eating junk and playing video games for hours on end!
🥇The Champ! 🥇