Caeleb Dressel wins the men’s 100m freestyle final in a new Olympic record as the US swimmer collects his second gold medal of the Tokyo Games
Caeleb Dressel‘s quest to dominate the pool continued on Thursday as he set a new Olympic record in the men’s 100m freestyle on his way to winning gold.
Dressel, 24, nabbed his first individual Olympic gold with a time of 47.02 seconds – after he held off the defending Olympic champion, Australia’s Kyle Chalmers, with a furious sprint to the wall.
The Florida native beat Chalmers by a mere six-hundredths of a second, leaving the 2016 winner with a silver medal this time. The bronze was claimed by Russia’s Kliment Kolesenikov.
It was the second Olympic gold medal of the Tokyo Games for Dressel – who earned his first after racing the first leg of the 4×100 free relay with his teammates on Monday.
In coming days, Dressel is scheduled to swim in two more individual races and possibly multiple relays.
Dressel previously won two golds, both in group events, in the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.
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