Dressel swims to his 7th gold medal NFL
Michael Phelps, you’ve got company.
Caeleb Dressel won his seventh gold medal of the world championships Sunday in Budapest, Hungary, putting the U.S. team ahead to stay with another dominating swim in the 4x100meter medley relay.
Twenty-four hours after becoming the first swimmer to win three golds in one night at a major international meet, Dressel joined Phelps in another elite club: seven golds at the second-biggest meet after the Olympics.
Phelps was the first to do it at the 2007 worlds in Melbourne, Australia. Dressel matched the feat along the banks of the Danube, emerging as America’s next swimming sensation.
The 20-year-old University of Florida student won three individual golds and was part of four winning relay teams.
“I’m pretty tired, but, you know, it’s been a good season, a good year, and to put together a seven-day meet, it’s a really nice feeling,” Dressel said. “There’s a lot more that goes into this than just the seven days that people see, so I’m very happy to be done.”
It was a big night all around for the Americans.
Lilly King set her second individual world record of the meet in the 50 breaststroke, again besting Russian rival Yulia Efimova, and returned as part of the women’s 4x100 medley relay that also broke the world record.
The U.S. finished with 18 golds and 38 medals overall.
To the surprise of no one, Dressel was named the top male swimmer of the meet. The female award when to Sweden’s Sarah Sjostrom, who capped off a stellar performance of her own with a bit of redemption in the 50 free .
After setting a world record in the semifinals, Sjostrom completed the furious dash from one end of the pool to the other in 23.69 just two-hundredths off her mark the previous evening. Ranomi Kromowidjojo of the Netherlands claimed the silver, while Stanford’s Simone Manuel of the U.S. settled for the bronze.
Manuel anchored the U.S. women to a world record in the 4x100 medley relay. She joined King, Kelsi Worrell and Cal’s Kathleen Baker in setting a time of 3:51.55, breaking the mark of 3:52.05 that had stood since an American victory at the 2012 London Olympics.
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