Caeleb Dressel wins USA Swimming 50 free championship

• The nine-time Olympic gold medalist completed the race in 21.35 seconds, his quickest time since 2022.
• Dressel additionally received the 100-meter freestyle and positioned second in two butterfly occasions in the course of the meet.

Clay High School graduate Caeleb Dressel earned his second victory of the week, successful the concluding males’s 50-meter freestyle on the USA Swimming Toyota National Championships in Irvine, Calif.

The nine-time Olympic gold medalist left little question within the sport’s quickest occasion, touching the wall in 21.35 seconds. Quintin McCarty positioned second in 21.75, adopted by Nikita Sheremet in 21.76.

While Dressel did not surpass his personal American report of 21.04, which he set in 2021 in Omaha, Neb., he closed a superb week within the pool and recorded his quickest mark since 2022. Only two swimmers on the earth have gone quicker in 2026.

Now 29, Dressel accomplished the meet with first-place finishes within the 50 and 100 free in addition to runner-up spots within the 50 and 100 butterfly, each instances behind Ilya Kharun.

Dressel received two gold medals on the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, 5 (three of them particular person) in 2021 in Tokyo and two in 2024 in Paris.

He additionally holds 15 long-course world championship gold medals, and will doubtlessly symbolize the United States on the Olympics for a fourth time in Los Angeles in 2028.