Caeleb Dressel has been touted as Michael Phelps‘replacement after the legendary swimmerretired postthe Rio 2016 Olympics. After winning gold in the 4×100 freestyle relay with Phelps, he competed in the heats of the 4×100 medley relay, where he earned his second gold.
But at the time, there was nothing to imply that this man would achieve greatness. After winning four gold medals in Rio, many felt that Katie Ledecky, who holds numerous world records, may be the one.
However, it was not here but the quest for a new champion in the United States was short-lived.Men’s swimming has been controlled by Caeleb Dressel since Rio 2016, and he is expected to excel at Tokyo 2020. Here, find out who holds more records betweenCaeleb Dressel andMichael Phelps.
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Caeleb Dressel at the 2021 U.S. Olympic Team Swimming Trials. (Getty)
Caeleb Dressel was born just days after the Atlanta 1996 Games Closing Ceremony. His journey to becoming one of the world’s best swimmers wasn’t precisely easy and rosy. Dressel began swimming at the age of 12 after playing American football for several years. He was a natural in the water. After breaking his first NAG record in 2012, Dressel became the first swimmer under 16 to break 20 seconds in the 200-yard freestyle relay. He then broke his first NAG record, which had been set in 1990, in the 100-meterfreestyle for 15-16 year-olds.
Dressel holds the 50-meter and 100-meter freestyle records, as well as the 50-meter and 100-meter butterfly records for the United States (all long course). Other records include 50-meter and 100-meter freestyles, a butterfly, and a 200-meter individual medley; he also had set a recordin the 100-meter breaststroke in the past.While swimming with Michael Phelps in Rio de Janeiro, Dressel helped the U.S. win gold in both the 4x100m free relay and 4x100m medley relay heats.
At the 2020 Olympics, Caeleb Dressel established a new swimming world record in the, beating the previous mark by a full second, just two days after setting an American record in the 100-meter freestyle event. For his second individual gold of the games and his Olympic career, Dressel smashed his own world mark by swimming 49.45 seconds in the finals. In July of this year, he had established a record of 49.5 seconds.
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Michael Phelps at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games. (Getty)
Seven world records are broken by Michael Phelps as he woneight gold medals at the Beijing Olympics 2008. In his illustrious career, Michael Phelps regarded as the finest swimmer of all time broke 39 records. Some of them included the record for most medals won of all time (28), most gold medals won of all time (23), most gold medals won at a single edition (eightBeijing 2008), most medals of all time in individual events (16), most gold medals of all time in individual events (13).
Now retired, he retains just four global records and four individual Olympic records. He has been retired since 2016.At the age of 15 years and 9 months, Michael Phelps became the youngest man swimmer in history to set a world swimming record. During the 2001 World Championships in Fukuoka, Japan, Phelps shattered his personal record with a timing of 1:54:58, winning him his first medal on the international stage.
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He continued to break new records at the 2002 U.S. Summer Nationals in Fort Lauderdale. It was at the same event that he set a new world record in the 400-meter individual medley the next year.After graduating from Towson in 2003, Phelps established five world records, including the 200-meter individual medley in Barcelona, with a time of 1:56.04, at the World Championships in Spain. As a result of his success in 2004, he shattered his own world record in the 400-meter individual medley with an impressive time of 4:08:41.
As a result of his achievements at the Olympics, he has won a total of 28 gold medals and three silver medals. He holds the record for the most medals won by a single Olympic athlete with a total of 28. He earned one silver and five gold medals in the 2016 Olympic Games, becoming the oldest individual gold medallist in Olympic swimming history. He was also the first swimmer to win four consecutive golds in the same event, the 200-meter individual medley. Michael Phelps has established 39 world records, the most of any athlete in the history of the sport.
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