Chris Guiliano Breaks Caeleb Dressel’s Pro Series Record With 21.43 50 Freestyle

By Anya Pelshaw on SwimSwam

2026 Professional Swim Sequence – Westmont

Wednesday, March 4 – Saturday, March 7, 2026
FMC Aquatic Middle, Westmont, Illinois
Lengthy Course Meters (50 meters)
Meet Central
Psych Sheet
Dwell Outcomes
Outcomes on Meet Cellular: “2026 TYR Professional Swim Sequence – Westmont”
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Dwell Recaps

Prelims: Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4
Finals: Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4

Males’s 50 Free — Finals

World File: Cesar Cielo Filho (Brazil) – 20.91 (2009)
American File: Caeleb Dressel (USA) – 21.04 (2019, 2021)
U.S. Open File: Caeleb Dressel (USA) – 21.04 (2021)
Professional Swim Sequence File: Caeleb Dressel (USA) – 21.51 (2020)

Prime 8 Finishers

Chris Guiliano (TXLA) — 21.43
Nikita Sheremet (UOFL) — 21.62
Matt King (ISC) — 21.85
Andrej Barna (SRB) — 21.93
Jokubas Keblys (CS) — 22.07
Michael Andrew (MASA) — 22.28
Bjornar Laskerud (NCS) — 22.32
Calvyn Justus (FAST) — 22.33

Chris Guiliano set one other Professional Sequence File this week as he touched in a 21.43 within the males’s 50 free. That broke the earlier Professional Sequence report of a 21.51 set by Caeleb Dressel in 2020.

Guiliano’s 50 free swim marked his 2nd Professional Sequence report of the week as he swam to a 47.38 within the 100 free throughout prelims Wednesday morning.

Tonight’s swim additionally marked a lifetime greatest for the 22 12 months previous Guiliano as his earlier greatest was a 21.57. He strikes up two spots to take a seat because the #7 American all-time within the occasion.

All-Time Prime U.S. Performers – Males’s 50 Free

Caeleb Dressel — 21.04 (2019)
Jack Alexy — 21.32 (2025)
Nathan Adrian — 21.37 (2015)
Cullen Jones — 21.40 (2009)
Tony Ervin — 21.40 (2016)
Michael Andrew — 21.41 (2022)
Chris Guiliano – 21.43 (2026)
Garrett Weber-Gale — 21.47 (2008)

Along with shifting up the all-time rankings, Guiliano now takes the #2 spot on the planet thus far this season, solely trailing Australia’s Cam McEvoy who swam a 21.38 on the Tokyo Open.