Watch Caeleb Dressel smash his own 100 butterfly WR and win another gold medal

Caeleb Dressel is coming home with another gold medal after cruising to victory in the men’s 100-meter butterfly final Saturday morning at the Tokyo Olympics (Friday night in the U.S.).

And this time, he broke the world record — his own world record.

With one of the best starts at the Olympics, Dressel was already ahead of the field by the time he took his first stroke. He charged through the first 50 with a super fast time of 23.00 before finishing at 49.45.

Dressel’s previous world record from 2019 was 49.50, and it was pretty clear from the beginning of this race that the world record was probably going down. This was just the second individual world record to fall at these Games, following South Africa’s Tatjana Schoenmaker breaking the 200-meter breaststroke world record earlier this week.

WORLD RECORD FOR CAELEB DRESSEL!

Dressel's third gold comes in the men's 100m butterfly! #TokyoOlympics x @TeamUSA

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— #TokyoOlympics (@NBCOlympics) July 31, 2021

Hungary’s Kristof Milak won the silver medal and was just .23 seconds behind Dressel with a time of 49.68. But the pair separated themselves from the field in a big way, as bronze medal-winner Noe Ponti of Switzerland finished nearly 1.5 seconds behind Dressel at 50.74.

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This was Dressel’s fifth Olympic medal of his career, and they’ve all been gold. At the Tokyo Games, he also won gold in the 100-meter freestyle and the 4×100-meter freestyle relay.