DRESSEL Caeleb

Olympic Games

Year	Location	100Free	4x100Free M	4x100Medley M
2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA	6th (48.02)	1st (3:09.92)	1st

World Championships

Year	Location	50Free	100Free	50Fly	100Fly	4x100Free M	4x100Free X	4x100Medley M	4x100Medley X
2019	Gwangju, KOR	1st (21.04)	1st (46.96)	1st (22.35)	1st (49.66)	1st (3:09.06)	1st (3:19.40)	2nd (3:28.45)	2nd (3:39.10)
2017	Budapest, HUN	1st (21.15)	1st (47.17)	4th (22.89)	1st (49.86)	1st (3:10.06)	1st (3:19.60)	1st (3:27.91)	1st (3:38.56)

Pan Pacific Championships

Year	Location	50Free	100Free	200Free	100Fly	200IndMed	4x100Free M	4x100Medley M	4x100Medley X
2018	Tokyo, JPN	2nd (21.93)	2nd (48.22)	H (1:47.89)	1st (50.75)	H (DSQ)	DSQ	1st (3:30.20)	3rd

World Championships Short Course - Individual Freestyle, Backstroke, Breaststroke and Butterfly events

Year	Location	50Free	100Free	50Fly	100Fly
2018	Hangzhou, CHN	2nd (20.54)	1st (45.62)	H (DNS)	2nd (48.71)

World Championships Short Course - Medley and Relay events

Year	Location	4x50Free M	4x50Free X	4x50Medley M	4x50Medley X	4x100Free	4x100Medley
2018	Hangzhou, CHN	1st (1:21.80)	1st (1:27.89)	2nd (1:30.90)	1st (1:36.40)	1st (3:03.03)	1st (3:19.98)

Legend
Free - Freestyle, Back - Backstroke, Breast - Breaststroke, Fly - Butterfly, IndMed - Individual Medley, SF - Semifinal, H - Heats, DNS - Did Not Start, M - Men, W - Women, X - Mixed, DSQ - Disqualified, [Relay athlete without time] - Did not swim in final

Socialising with friends, playing video games, reading, playing the drums and ukelele. (globo.com, 04 Feb 2019; olympics.nbcsports.com, 18 Dec 2019)

Athlete

University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA

Wife Meghan

English

Gator Swim Club [Gainesville, FL, USA]

Gregg Troy [club], USA

His sister Sherridon has competed in swimming at national level in the United States of America. (floridagators.com, 01 Aug 2018; SportsDeskOnline, 12 Oct 2020)

He suffered minor injuries after being involved in a motorcycle accident in June 2018, but recovered in time to compete at the US national championships the following month in Irvine, CA, United States of America. (swimmingworldmagazine.com, 12 Aug 2018; wsj.com, 15 Jul 2019)

He underwent deviated septum [nose] surgery in early 2014. (olympics.nbcsports.com, 22 Jan 2016)

He took part in his first race at age four. He decided to focus on swimming instead of football at age 12. (floridagators.com, 29 Feb 2016; nytimes.com, 29 Feb 2016)

He began swimming competitively after watching his older brother Tyler compete. He was inspired to focus on the sport after watching the 4x100m freestyle relay at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing on TV. (olympics.nbcsports.com, 22 Jan 2016; floridagators.com, 29 Feb 2016)

US swimmer Michael Phelps. (sport24.co.za, 31 Jul 2017)

"I just want to be a better man every day, and from there, the swimming will come." (tokyo2020.org, 30 Sep 2020)

He was named Best Male Athlete of the Year in both 2017 and 2019 by the International Swimming Federation [FINA]. (fina.org, 02 Dec 2017; swimmingworldmagazine.com, 11 Feb 2020)

He received the Male Athlete of the Year and Male Race of the Year awards at USA Swimming's 2019 Golden Goggle Awards. (digitaljournal.com, 25 Nov 2019)

He was presented with the 2019 Athlete of the Year award at the 2019 United States Aquatic Sports [USAS] Convention. (swimmingworldmagazine.com, 15 Sep 2019)

During his collegiate career at the University of Florida, he was named College Swimming & Diving Coaches Association of America [CSCAA] Swimmer of the Year in 2018, CSCAA Co-Swimmer of the Year twice and Southeastern Conference [SEC] Male Swimmer of the Year three times. (floridagators.com, 01 Aug 2018; usaswimming.org, 12 Apr 2019)

He was named Male Swimmer of the Meet at the 2017 World Championships in Budapest, Hungary, where he won seven gold medals. (swimswam.com, 31 Jul 2017; floridagators.com, 30 Jul 2017)