Dressel and Peaty smash own world records at ISL finals
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[November 23, 2020]
(Reuters) - World and Olympic
champions Caeleb Dressel and Adam Peaty smashed their own short
course world records on the final day of the International Swimming
League (ISL) season in Budapest on Sunday.
American Dressel, who last Monday became the first man to swim the
100m Individual Medley in under 50 seconds, sliced a further six
tenths off his record of 49.88 with a new best of 49.28.
The 24-year-old, racing for the winning Cali Condors team, has now
gone nearly a second faster than anyone else in history with the
previous best before him being Russian Vladimir Morozov who set a
then-record 50.26 in 2018.
London Roar's Peaty touched the wall with a time of 55.41 in the
100m breaststroke, beating the record 55.49 the 25-year-old Briton
set in the same pool a week ago.
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Energy Standard's Belarusian Ilya Shymanovich finished second, his
time equalling Peaty's previous record.
"It feels like every race is a world championship or an Olympic
final, it's incredible," said London Roar general manager Rob
Woodhouse. "Seeing all these world records is just amazing."
Dressel, a double Olympic gold medallist in 2016 and winner of seven
world championship golds in Budapest in 2017 and a further six in
Gwangju in 2019, set two world records on Saturday in the 100m
butterfly and 50m freestyle.
Dutch swimmer Kira Toussaint, Peaty's London Roar team mate, set a
women's 50m backstroke world record of 25.60 on Nov. 14.
Teams, with many of the world's top swimmers, have been racing
behind closed doors in Budapest since Oct. 16 with Energy Standard,
Cali Condors, LA Current and London Roar reaching the finals.
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Caeleb Dressel of the
U.S. celebrates winning the race. REUTERS/Antonio Bronic
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The Condors also had Olympic women's 100m breaststroke champion
Lilly King set a U.S. record in the distance with a time of 1:02.50.
With the Tokyo Olympics postponed until 2021, and other competitions
cancelled around the world due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the ISL
gave more than 300 swimmers a focus and the chance to team up and
race again.
Athletes remained in protective 'bubbles' with regular tests for the
new coronavirus. There were no positive results registered at the
event.
"It's been such a fun time, this whole bubble," said Dressel. "This
is the most fun I've ever had swimming in my life. To have that for
six weeks is truly special."
(Reporting by Alan Baldwin in London, editing by Toby Davis and Ken
Ferris)
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