He took home 15 medals overall, some of which he later gifted to family and friends. Dressel captured seven gold medals at the world championships and then followed that up with six gold medals and two silvers in the championships, becoming the only swimmer to earn eight medals at a single world championships. In , Dressel tied his own American record in the 50m freestyle with a time of After his victory in the m freestyle, which he won in Now, Dressel is the one to watch as one of the marquee names at the Tokyo Olympics.
At the world championships, Dressel won the m butterfly in At the last World Championships, Kalisz struggled mightily, entering as favorite in both individual medley events but leaving with just a bronze in the IM and ninth-place finish in the IM. He later revealed he had been battling a shoulder injury, but his status was a big question mark as recently as the beginning of June. It turns out that those setbacks in and were the fuel Kalisz needed to propel his career, and he delivered this year in his signature IM.
Sure, he benefitted from reigning world champion Daiya Seto finishing ninth, but Kalisz took charge of the final with a killer breaststroke leg that gave him a 2. He faded at the end, but he had enough to hang on and capture gold. He was also a medal contender in the IM going into the meet, but he shockingly missed the final, finishing 10th. Arno Kamminga was another swimmer who made massive strides in and really going back to late He is 25, but he was making his Olympic debut in Tokyo and he had never swum in a World Championships final, topping out at 10th place in four World Championships semifinals appearances in and But prior to the Olympics, he became just the second man ever to break 58 in the breaststroke joining Adam Peaty and the sixth man under in the breaststroke.
He would go on to earn silver medals in both events in Tokyo, coming through in key moments where others faltered, particularly in the breast. And perhaps most significantly for Murphy, he led off the U. When Great Britain beat the U. Only two men have broken long course world records this year, Caeleb Dressel and Kliment Kolesnikov.
He has been one of the best backstrokers in the world this year, too, and he swam a He entered the Olympics with the second-fastest time in the world in the free and ended up with a bronze medal behind the dynamic duo of Dressel and Kyle Chalmers. The only knock on Kolesnikov is that he could not elevate his performances on relays. Russia was a gold-medal favorite in the free relay but ended up seventh, with Kolesnikov anchoring in a very disappointing He was much better in the medley relay, with a This time, Chalmers was a year-old veteran ready to match up with Dressel after Dressel edged him for the world title in the free by just 0.
This time, Chalmers was again dynamite in the free, and his back-half split of And once again, he almost caught Dressel. He swam a Chalmers also bagged a pair of relay bronze medals in Tokyo as his Gregorio Paltrinieri entered as the gold-medal favorite in both the free and free.
The year-old was reigning world champion in the free and defending gold medalist in the free, and he swam one of the top performances of the pandemic year with his European record But he still was able to win a pair of medals.
After barely qualifying for the free final in eighth place, he held the lead for most of the event before claiming the silver medal in a furious finish. He was a disappointing fourth in the free, but he later picked up a bronze medal in the 10K, his first-ever medal in the 10K at an Olympics or Worlds. Another European distance star, Mykhailo Romanchuk has often flown under the radar behind the likes of Paltrinieri and Florian Wellbrock.
After placing 15th in the free at his first Olympics in , he finished second in the event at both the and World Championships, once each to Paltrinieri and Wellbrock. At the Olympics, the year-old was in the hunt for Olympic gold medals in both the and free. He earned bronze in a tight free final behind Bobby Finke and Paltrinieri, and then he claimed another silver in the free.
He and Finke both trailed Wellbrock by seven tenths at the last turn, and while Finke stole headlines for his Romanchuk did not swim his best in either Olympic final, but he still ranks first in the world in the free and second in the He led the free final for most of the race, only to just miss out on gold when Ahmed Hafnaoui rocketed home, but there was no shame in this silver medal.
McLoughlin joined an impressive legacy of freestyle Olympic medalists for Australia that includes gold medalist Mack Horton , and gold medalist Ian Thorpe and bronze medalist Grant Hackett in just this century alone. The year-old holds the world records in the m butterfly short course as well as the m individual medley short course events. With the Olympics being at his home in Japan this year as well as the suspension towards the end of following an extramarital affair, there will be plenty of attention on Daiya Seto.
In her short career so far, American competitive swimmer Katie Ledecky has won five Olympic gold medals already. She shocked everyone as a year-old after unexpectedly winning the gold medal in the m freestyle at the London Olympics. Ledecky was the most decorated female athlete in the Olympics in Rio. She won four gold medals, one silver and scripted two world records! The year-old has won 15 World Championship gold medals, the most in history for a female swimmer.
Ledecky also holds the world record in the Women's m, m as well as m long course freestyle events. British competitive swimmer Adam Peaty specializes in the breaststroke category. Since bursting onto the world swimming scene in , Katie Ledecky has been nearly unstoppable. Her 20 combined Olympic and world championship gold medals are the most by a woman swimmer. In the Rio Olympics, she swept through the three distance freestyle events. Her times in the meter, meter and 1,meter freestyle are all world records.
But while American swimmers have come to find Ledecky a comfortable source of gold medals in the past, things won't be quite as easy this year. Australian star Ariarne Titmus has become a real challenge to Ledecky's throne in several distance events. While Ledecky has the 1, all but wrapped up in the race's first year in Olympic women's competition, the and figure to be major battles between the American and the Australian.
Here's all you need to know about Titmus and the threat she poses to Ledecky in the Tokyo Olympics. Ledecky won gold in the freestyle in the London Olympics as a year-old, and she has been the most dominant women's swimmer in the world ever since. Now 24, Ledecky will be the one racing young up-and-comers. Titmus is 20 and competing in her first Olympics. Canadian year-old Summer McIntosh is also in the final.
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