Caleb Dressel net worth
What is Caeleb Dressel’s net worth?
Caeleb Dressel is an American swimmer whose specialties include butterfly and freestyle sprints. Caeleb’s net worth is $5 million. He has won multiple medals at the World Aquatics Championships, including a record eight at the 2019 Gwangju Championships in South Korea. In addition, Dressel has won numerous Olympic medals and holds world records in events such as the 50-meter freestyle and 100-meter butterfly.
Early life and college career
Caeleb Dressel was born in Green Cove Springs, Florida in 1996 to parents Christina and Michael. He has three siblings, Taylor, Sheridan and Caitlin, who are all competitive swimmers. As a teenager, Dressel attended Clay High School but swam with the Bolles School Sharks in Jacksonville. At 15, Dressel was the youngest male swimmer to compete in the 2012 U.S. Olympic Trials. He was ranked 145th in the 50-meter freestyle and tied for 152nd in the 100-meter freestyle. Dressel had his biggest success to date in his second year, when he competed at the FINA World Junior Swimming Championships in Dubai. There, he won six medals, including gold in the 100-meter freestyle. Soon after, at the Speedo Winter Junior National Championships, he became the youngest swimmer to break the 19-second barrier in the 50-yard freestyle.
Dressel went on to attend the University of Florida, where she swam. As a freshman, he won the 2015 NCAA Championship in the 50-yard freestyle. That same year, he won the 50-meter and 100-meter freestyle at the senior national championships. Dressel followed with a stellar performance at the 2016 Men’s NCAA Division I Championship, where he broke U.S. and U.S. Open records in the 50- and 100-yard freestyle.
2016 Summer Olympics
Dressel continued his success in 2016 when he made his Olympic debut in Rio de Janeiro. He swam the first leg of the 4×100m freestyle relay as part of a team of Michael Phelps, Nathan Adrian and Ryan Heard. The team finished first with a time of 3:09.92, earning Dressel his first Olympic gold medal. Soon after, he won gold in the 4x100m medley relay. Meanwhile, Dressel was sixth in the 100-meter freestyle.
Championship 2017
In the 2017 NCAA Division 1 championship game, Dressel once again broke the US Open and US Open 100-yard freestyle records; in addition, he also broke the 100-yard butterfly record. More victories came at the World Aquatics Championships in Budapest, where Dressel won seven golds and set multiple U.S. records. His records appear in the 50m butterfly, 4x100m medley relay, 100m freestyle, 50m freestyle and 4x100m medley freestyle relay. Dressel becomes the second swimmer to win seven gold medals at a single world championships, after Michael Phelps.
2018 and 2019 Championships
Dressel broke more records at the 2018 NCAA Division I Men’s Swimming and Diving Championships. He broke the U.S. Open and U.S. Open 50-yard freestyle records three times, as well as the 100-yard butterfly record. As a result, Dressel received the CSCAA’s Meet Swimmer honor for the third year in a row.
At the 2019 Gwangju World Aquatics Championships, Dressel won a record 8 medals, including 6 golds. He has won events including 50m butterfly, 100m freestyle, 50m freestyle, 4x100m medley relay and 100m butterfly. In the final game, he broke Michael Phelps’ 10-year record.
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Cali Condor
Dressel represented the Cali Condors as part of the inaugural FINA 2019. In Las Vegas, he won all three games and was named MVP in each. In 2020, Dressel broke four world records in the 100-meter butterfly and 50-meter freestyle with the Condors. In addition, he became the first person to complete the 100-meter butterfly in 48 seconds.
2020 Summer Olympics
Dressel played one of the most historic games of his career at the 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics in 2021 due to the coronavirus pandemic. On day three of the competition, he won gold as part of the men’s 4x100m freestyle relay team that included Bowie Becker, Blake Pieroni and Zach Apple. Next, he won his first Olympic gold medal in the 100-meter freestyle, setting a new Olympic record with a score of 47.02. On the eighth day, Dressel won the 100-meter butterfly with a world record time of 49.45. He then won the 50-meter freestyle with an Olympic record time of 21.07. In the end, Dressel and his teammates Ryan Murphy, Michael Andrew and Zach Apple won the 4×100-meter medley relay, setting a new world record of 3:26.78. With his five gold medals in Tokyo, Dressel became the fifth American in history to win so many gold medals in a single Olympics.
personal life
In 2013, Dressel began dating Megan Amelia Hella, who trained with him in high school. The couple got engaged in 2019 and are getting married in early 2021.
Dressel is an evangelical Christian who had become his faith when he was in college. His great eagle upper arm tattoo was inspired by the Bible verse Isaiah 40:31.
