2019 ATLANTA CLASSIC
- May 17th-19th, 2019
- Georgia Tech McAuley Aquatic Center, Atlanta, Georgia
- LCM (50m pool)
- Meet Information
- Psych Sheets
- Live Results
After his funky splitting in the 200 fly on Saturday evening, American swimmer Caeleb Dressel had more interesting splits on Saturday morning in the 100 free.
En route to a 48.45 top-qualifying spot in the 100 free, Dressel split 24.10/24.35 – just a quarter-of-a-second spread between his first 50 and his second 50.
For some context on that, Dean Farris, the only other swimmer under 50 seconds in prelims, split 23.81/26.12 – a 2.31 second spread. In Bloomington at the Pro Swim Series, winner Zach Apple on Saturday evening split 23.55/25.32 (48.76) for a 1.88-second spread. In fact, the smalles spread in the Bloomington A-final was 1.33 seconds – by Robert Howard (23.88/25.21 = 49.09).
Comparing Dressel back to himself, at last year’s Pan Pacific Championships, where he finished tied for 2nd in a similar time of 48.22, he was out in 22.96 and back in 25.16. That 2.20 second spread was actually significantly larger than the two swimmers who finished ahead of him, so this close-splitting is out of character for his racing.
The hope, from an analyst’s perspective, will be to see him go full-out for the first 50 in finals (if he hangs around – swimmers don’t always race Sunday evening finals) so that we can make a comparison between the two and see which resulted in a faster overall time.
It surely is one of the fastest back 50s ever heard of, but it is odd to compare it to the second half of 100s, the first half of which was swam in 23 or less. That includes Dressel’s own AR in 2017 Budapest, where he came home in 24.8
47.69 for tonight
Somebody please videotape the finals, for our sake
Please swimswam. We know you’re there ok
The world record set by Cesar Cielo is 46.91! Dressel is nowhere close!!!! The SwimSwam media Is dishonest and the true enemy of the people! The FAILING Caeleb Remel Dressel In-season Times are full of Fake and Dishonest Swimming! 24.1 first 50 is almost 3 seconds slower than his best time in the 50m freestyle! His 200 butterfly? Well off the 1:51.51 WR set by TRUE American Patriot Michael Phelps! No collusion between myself and Texas MS&D! Total Witch-hunt!!!
Sad!
stay Sad while we enjoy ….no problem .
Are you alright?
Finally some content!
You are pretty wrong but I chuckled. Good job.
Nice try in being humorous and sarcastic but hopefully not inviting unnecessary political arguments.
Factually: 1) Caleb isn’t really that far off Cielo’s suit aided recorded (kind of like wind aided in track and field).
2) MP is the best of all time and there will never be another MP in out lifetime. Comparing anyone to MP is a failing exercise (like most newspapers)
3) As mentioned by others Dressel isn’t a 200 fly swimmer, he is swimming this to help him have an unbeatable second 50 in his 100 fly and 100 free races as well as to be considered for the 4×2 free
4) Dressel like Ledecky, Murphy, Manuel and now Lilly king are… Read more »
I’m just goofin’ around boys! I think he’s winning 8 medals in Tokyo. Fax.
One has to feel that this man is gonna shatter a WR sooner or later, just a matter of time. His in-season timings are just ridiculous.
Not sure how rest Caeleb Ferris is, but we’re about to witness a 46 second race VEEERY soon…
He is doing Magic things with Troy so far …..
According to unreliable sources they’re set to taper only for the 2024 trials
What’s the fastest second 50 ever? This has to be up there.
It’s always hard to say “ever” because there’s always the possibility of someone out there who’s negative-split a 100 31-24.0 just to say that they did it.
Fastest split at Worlds in 2017 was 24.86 (by Dressel), though he was so far ahead of the field at the 50 that he didn’t actually have the tightest spread.
The GOAT split 23.31 / 24.20 on his lead-off in Beijing, suspect that’s the fastest second fifty or at least very close.
What about Lezaks second 50?
Chalmers split 24.24 in Rio
Him and Phelps swim the 100m free extremely similarly; easy speed out and hammer it on the way home.
Lezak split 21.50 / 24.56 on his 46.06.
am I the only one who saw these Lezak splits and immediately thought “… that seems in the ballpark for Dressel flat start”
Despite the vote ratio no, you are not
Where do you find the splits?
In my best Rowdy voice
“He’s a back half swimmer, you know he’s got that speed”
Doubt anyone has been under 24 before.
Feel like he might do something crazy like that or a 47 low tonight.
When I think of comparatively fast second half I think of Hanser Garcia, solely because his starts were terrible but he insanely fast on top of the water
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