Caeleb Dressel

Caeleb Dressel's 5 individual gold medals at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics matched Mark Spitz’s single-Games gold haul, while his 7 total golds tied the Games record—a feat that outperforms Natalie Coughlin's 6-medal peak in Beijing. He shattered world records in the 50m freestyle (21.07s), 100m butterfly (49.45s), and 100m freestyle (47.02s) during those Games, becoming the first man to break 49 seconds in the 100m butterfly. Dressel's 100m freestyle time is 1.2 seconds faster than the average Olympic champion’s, and his three World Swimmer of the Year awards (2017, 2019, 2021) are unmatched among active sprinters, cementing his status as the most explosive sprinter in history.