1. Caeleb Remel Dressel was born on August 16,1996 and is an American competitive swimmer who specializes in freestyle, butterfly, and individual medley events.
74 Facts About Caeleb Dressel
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Caeleb Dressel swims representing the Cali Condors as part of the International Swimming League.
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Caeleb Dressel won a record seven gold medals at the 2017 World Aquatics Championships in Budapest, nine medals, six of which were gold, at the 2018 World Short Course Swimming Championships in Hangzhou, and eight medals, including six gold, at the 2019 World Aquatics Championships in Gwangju.
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At the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Caeleb Dressel won five gold medals, which made him the fifth American to win five gold medals in a single Olympic Games after 1970.
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Caeleb Dressel is widely regarded as one of the greatest sprinters in swimming history.
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Caeleb Dressel was born on August 16,1996, in Green Cove Springs, Florida, the son of Christina and Michael Caeleb Dressel.
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Caeleb Dressel's father is a veterinarian specializing in urgent care for cats and dogs.
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Caeleb Dressel is the third of four children; his three siblings, one brother and two sisters, plus his father were all competitive swimmers setting records and earning honors across the high school and university levels.
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Caeleb Dressel attended Clay High School in Green Cove Springs, Florida, and trained with the Bolles School Sharks in Jacksonville where he met his then training partner and now wife, Meghan Haila.
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Caeleb Dressel was a collegiate swimmer at the University of Florida starting in 2014 and majored in Resources and Conservation.
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Caeleb Dressel led off a 50-yard free relay with a time of 19.82, becoming the first swimmer under 16 years old to break 20 seconds.
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At the 2012 United States Olympic Trials, Caeleb Dressel was the youngest male swimmer at 15 years of age and ranked 100th in the 200 meter individual medley in a time of 2:08.08,121st in the 100 meter butterfly at 57.21 seconds, 121st with a time of 1:55.17 in the 200 meter freestyle, tied for 145th in the 50 meter freestyle with a time of 23.87 seconds, and tied for 152nd in the 100 meter freestyle with his time of 52.21 seconds.
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When Caeleb Dressel was 17 years old, he won six medals, including a gold medal in the 100 meter freestyle in which he broke the Championships record with his time of 48.97 seconds, at the 2013 FINA World Junior Swimming Championships in Dubai, United Arab Emirates in August 2013.
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At the 2013 Speedo Winter Junior National Championships, Caeleb Dressel became the youngest swimmer in history to break the 19 second barrier in the 50 yard freestyle, swimming an 18.94 to lead off his club team's relay.
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Caeleb Dressel's winning time of 21.53 in the 50 meter freestyle ranked 4th in the world for 2015.
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At the 2016 US Olympic Trials, Caeleb Dressel made the 2016 US Olympic Team in the 100 meter freestyle by finishing second with a time of 48.23 seconds, he placed 4th in the 50 meter freestyle, 7th in the 100 meter butterfly, 32nd in the 200 meter freestyle, and was disqualified in the 200 meter individual medley for a false start.
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Caeleb Dressel's performances leading up to and at the 2016 US Olympic Trials earned him recognition as America's best young sprinter by Sports Illustrated and CBS News.
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Caeleb Dressel tied his 50 freestyle record with an 18.20, the same as the preceding year.
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At the 2017 World Aquatics Championships in Budapest, Hungary, Caeleb Dressel won seven gold medals and set numerous American records.
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Caeleb Dressel became the second swimmer to win seven gold medals at a single World Championships, after Michael Phelps in 2007.
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On day two, Caeleb Dressel finished fourth in the 50 meter butterfly final with a time of 22.89, missing a medal by 0.05 seconds.
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On day five, Caeleb Dressel re-set the 100-meter freestyle American record with a 47.17 in the 100 meter freestyle final, en route to winning gold by a margin of 0.70 seconds over silver medalist and teammate Nathan Adrian.
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On day seven, Caeleb Dressel became the first swimmer ever to win three gold medals on a single day.
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Caeleb Dressel won the 50 meter freestyle in 21.15, a new world textile best time.
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Swimming the butterfly leg, Caeleb Dressel recorded a time of 49.76 and the American team of Matt Grevers, Kevin Cordes, and Nathan Adrian won with a time of 3:27.91.
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At the 2018 Southeastern Conference, SEC, Swimming and Diving Championships in College Station, Texas, in February, Caeleb Dressel lowered his best time in the 100 yard breaststroke from a 51.88 to a 50.03, which broke the former American, US Open, and NCAA records set by Kevin Cordes in 2014 at 50.04 by one hundredth of a second.
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Later on, in August 2020, Caeleb Dressel provided his analysis of the record in a video and put it on his own YouTube channel.
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At the 2018 NCAA Division I Men's Swimming and Diving Championships in March, Caeleb Dressel won all three of his individual races, and won his first relay national title.
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On day 2 of the competition, March 22,2018, Caeleb Dressel broke the NCAA, American, and US Open records in the 50 yard freestyle thrice.
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Caeleb Dressel later improved upon that record in the evening leading off The University of Florida's national championship winning relay with a 17.81 split, and finalized his record with a 17.63 in the 50 yard freestyle final.
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At the 2018 US National Championships held in July 2018 in Irvine, California, Caeleb Dressel won the 100 meter butterfly with a time of 50.50 seconds after finishing second in the 50 meter butterfly and sixth in the 100 meter freestyle.
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Caeleb Dressel placed second in the 50 meter freestyle with a time of 21.67, just 0.18 seconds behind Michael Andrew, and decided not to swim the 50 meter breaststroke, 100 meter breaststroke, 200 meter freestyle, and 200 meter individual medley.
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Caeleb Dressel's winning time of 50.75 seconds in the 100 meter butterfly set a new Championships record in the event.
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Caeleb Dressel won the silver medal in the 50 meter freestyle with a time of 21.93, finishing only behind fellow American Michael Andrew, and won a gold medal in the 4x100 meter medley relay alongside Ryan Murphy who swam backstroke, Andrew Wilson who swam breaststroke, and Nathan Adrian who swam freestyle.
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At the 2018 World Short Course Championships in Hangzhou, China in December 2018, Caeleb Dressel tied Kelsi Dahlia for the most number of medals won at the World Championships meet with nine medals, he won six gold medals to Dahlia's seven.
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Caeleb Dressel's efforts contributed to Smoliga's winning eight gold medals at the Championships and breaking Caeleb Dressel's former Guinness World Record for "most number of gold medals won at a single FINA World Championships ", which he held from 2017 when he won seven gold medals.
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Caeleb Dressel won the silver medal in the 100 meter butterfly with a time of 48.71 seconds, twenty-one hundredths of a second behind gold medalist Chad le Clos of South Africa.
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Caeleb Dressel won a gold medal in the mixed 4x50 meter freestyle relay in world record time, a gold medal in the 4x100 meter medley relay in Americas record and Championships record time, the silver medal in the 4x50 meter medley relay in American record time, and entered as one of two male American swimmers in the 50 meter butterfly, though decided not to swim in the event at the Championships.
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On May 17,2019, Caeleb Dressel edged out Chase Kalisz in the 100 meter breaststroke at the 2019 Atlanta Classic in Atlanta with a time of 1:01.22 in the final, dropping over a second from his best time of 1:02.26 heading into the 2016 Olympic Trials, and qualifying for the 2020 US Olympic Trials in the event.
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Caeleb Dressel then won gold in the 50 meter butterfly, an event he failed to win in 2017.
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Caeleb Dressel is the first American man to win that event, and he set a new national and championship record time of 22.35 seconds for the event.
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Caeleb Dressel won gold in the final the following day.
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The medal was the eighth that Caeleb Dressel won at the Championships, and the most medals of any type that a person had won at a single long course Championships.
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Caeleb Dressel won the Most Valuable Player of the match honor in all 3 matches he participated in as well as winning the skins race each time.
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Caeleb Dressel won the 100 meter freestyle, 100 meter butterfly, and 50 meter butterfly.
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Caeleb Dressel is the first person to swim the 100-meter butterfly in less than 48 seconds.
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Caeleb Dressel broke his own 100 IM record twice, dropping it to 49.88 the first time, and 49.28 the second time.
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On day two of the 2020 USA Swimming Olympic Trials, June 14,2021, Caeleb Dressel competed in the 200 meter freestyle prelims in the morning, swimming a 1:46.63 and ranking 2nd overall for the heats.
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Caeleb Dressel's swim moved him up in rankings to the all-time 20th fastest American in the event.
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On day four of competition, Wednesday June 16,2021, Caeleb Dressel ranked 5th out of all prelims heats in the 100 meter freestyle swimming a 48.25 and advancing to the semifinals.
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On day five, June 17,2021, Caeleb Dressel won the 100 m freestyle with a time of 47.39 and qualifying him for the US Olympic Swimming team in the 100 m freestyle and the freestyle relay for the 2020 Summer Olympics.
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Caeleb Dressel tied the US Open record and Championships record for the 100 meter freestyle with his swim.
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On day six, Caeleb Dressel won the prelims heats of the 100 meter butterfly with a 50.17 breaking the US Open record and Championships record.
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Caeleb Dressel's swim tied his personal best time and set a new US Open record.
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Caeleb Dressel was selected as one of two male USA swimming captains for the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan, held in August 2021, along with Ryan Murphy.
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On day three of competition, Caeleb Dressel won his first medal at the 2020 Olympics swimming in the finals of the 4x100 meter freestyle relay.
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Caeleb Dressel helped the relay win the gold medal, swimming the relay's lead-off leg and splitting the second fastest time among his relay teammates Blake Pieroni, Bowe Becker, and Zach Apple with a 47.26.
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On day four, Caeleb Dressel ranked second overall in the prelims heats of the 100 meter freestyle with a time of 47.73 and advanced to the semifinals.
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Caeleb Dressel won his first individual Olympic gold medal in the final of the 100 meter freestyle with a time of 47.02, a new Olympic record.
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Caeleb Dressel finished six hundredths of a second ahead of Australian Kyle Chalmers, which was a changing of Olympic champion from the 2016 Summer Olympics where Chalmers won the gold medal and Caeleb Dressel finished sixth in the 100 meter freestyle.
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On day eight, Caeleb Dressel won the final of the 100 meter butterfly in a world record time of 49.45.
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Later in the same session, Caeleb Dressel won the gold medal in the 4x100 meter medley relay and set a new world record for the event of 3:26.78 in the final with his relay teammates Ryan Murphy, Michael Andrew, and Zach Apple.
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Caeleb Dressel started his competition in the 2021 season on August 28 in the second match of the season, and the first match of the season his team competed in, earning the second-most MVP points in the match with 93 points.
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Caeleb Dressel's swim registered Dressel as the second fastest American swimmer in the event, a slim second and a half slower than American Ryan Lochte who set the world record in the event at 1:49.63 in 2012.
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Caeleb Dressel won the 100 meter individual medley in a time of 50.74 seconds, earning 9 points for his team, and won the 50 meter butterfly skins competition with a time of 23.05 seconds in the final head-to-head competition against Tom Shields.
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Caeleb Dressel won all four of those events and is set to swim them at the world championships in Budapest, Hungary.
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Caeleb Dressel began posting videos deconstructing some of his past swims to his YouTube channel in July 2020.
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Caeleb Dressel has shared critique of his past races and swims with SwimSwam.
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Caeleb Dressel provided his perspective to GQ on swimming scenes from various movies including scenes featuring survival swimming and competitive swimming.
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On July 19,2018, Caeleb Dressel turned professional by signing a sponsorship deal with swimwear brand Speedo.
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In September 2020, SPIRE Institute and Academy announced collaborations with Caeleb Dressel for providing support to students of SPIRE through various avenues such as curriculum development, training, and facilities design.
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In 2013, Caeleb Dressel started a romantic relationship with his future wife, Meghan, a child counselor and former breaststroker who competed collegiately for Florida State University, and in 2019 they were engaged.
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In 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, planning the wedding was one way Caeleb Dressel stayed busy during quarantine, as was hiking a 60-mile portion of the Appalachian Trail.
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Caeleb Dressel was raised Christian in his youth and his faith grew while in college.