41 Facts About Kyle Chalmers

Kyle Chalmers, was born on 25 June 1998 and is an Australian competitive swimmer.

Kyle Chalmers is the Oceanian and Australian record holder in the short course 50 metre butterfly and 50 metre freestyle.

At the 2014 Oceania Swimming Championships, Chalmers won the Oceania title in the 50 metre butterfly and 100 metre freestyle.

Kyle Chalmers was the 2016 Olympic champion in Rio de Janeiro in the 100 metre freestyle, winning the gold medal in world junior record time.

Kyle Chalmers won a gold medal in the 100 metre freestyle at the 2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships and a silver medal at the 2019 World Aquatics Championships in Gwangju in the 100 metre freestyle.

Kyle Chalmers won his second Olympic medal in the 100 metre freestyle Olympic Games event at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, winning the silver medal with a time of 47.08 in the final.

Kyle Chalmers is the son of former Australian rules football and Port Adelaide premiership player Brett Chalmers.

Kyle Chalmers won the Oceania title and gold medal in the 100 metre freestyle, swimming a time of 50.71 seconds in the final to finish less than two-tenths of a second ahead of second-place finisher Steven Kent of New Zealand.

Later the same month, at the 2015 World Junior Swimming Championships in Singapore in late August, Kyle Chalmers won three gold medals, three silvers medals, and one bronze medal, medaling in all seven events he competed in.

Kyle Chalmers broke the junior world record with a time of 48.03.

At the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Kyle Chalmers became the first Australian to win the gold medal in the 100 metre freestyle since Michael Wenden in 1968, doing so in a new world junior record time of 47.58 seconds and finishing over two tenths of a second ahead of silver medalist Pieter Timmers of Belgium and bronze medalist Nathan Adrian of the United States.

Kyle Chalmers had swum the fastest time in the heats, with his 47.90 breaking his own junior world record.

Kyle Chalmers's time earned him the silver medal in the event, finishing second only to Vladimir Morozov of Russia by 0.69 seconds.

At the 2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships in Tokyo, Japan, Kyle Chalmers won the gold medal in the 100 metre freestyle with a time of 48.00 seconds, narrowly winning over silver medalist in the event and fellow Australian, Jack Cartwright, who finished 0.22 seconds behind Kyle Chalmers.

Kyle Chalmers battled numerous injuries in the lead up to qualification for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, which included undergoing surgery to his shoulder as well as his heart.

Kyle Chalmers's win marked his third-consecutive national title in the 200 metre freestyle.

Kyle Chalmers then backed up that performance with a strong showing in the men's 100 metre freestyle, delivering his fastest time in two years of 47.59 seconds.

Kyle Chalmers equalled his personal best time of 47.08 seconds in the final of the 100 metre freestyle, finishing 0.06 seconds behind Caeleb Dressel of the United States, 0.36 seconds ahead of Kliment Kolesnikov of Russia, and 0.64 seconds ahead of Maxime Grousset of France to win the silver medal.

Kyle Chalmers's swim stopped the 29-consecutive-race and four-year-long winning streak in the 50 metre freestyle at the Swimming World Cup by Vladimir Morozov of Russia, meaning Chalmers was the first male other than Morozov to win the 50 metre freestyle in the last 30 occurrences of the race at the World Cup.

Day two, Kyle Chalmers finished less than two seconds ahead of Jesse Puts of the Netherlands and Blake Pieroni of the United States to secure the gold medal in the 100 metre freestyle with his time of 45.73 seconds.

Kyle Chalmers's swim was two hundredths of a second slower than the Oceanian and Australian records of 1:40.80 in the event.

Kyle Chalmers's swim was the top-scoring result out all of the day's performances based on the scoring system used by FINA to assign point values to each swimmer's result for a given race, coming to a total of 963 points for his 45.50 seconds.

Kyle Chalmers finished second in the final, touching in at 1:41.60 to win the silver medal.

Kyle Chalmers lowered his time from the prelims to a 21.02 in the final, fast enough to snatch up the silver medal in the race, while Vladimir Morozov won his first gold medal of the year's World Cup in 20.89 seconds.

Kyle Chalmers finished over one second ahead of second place finisher Vladimir Morozov, who previously swam the second fastest time in history in 2018 with a time of 44.95 seconds.

Ahead of day three, Kyle Chalmers added an event to his competition schedule, the 50 metre butterfly to be contested the third day, and withdrew from competing in the 200 metre freestyle.

Kyle Chalmers set new Oceanian and Australian records in the final, as well as winning the gold medal, with his time of 20.68 seconds, lowering his own record in the event from 2019 and finishing just ahead of Vladimir Morozov, who swam a 20.81.

The second morning of competition, Kyle Chalmers had another speedy start, finishing ranked first in the prelims heats of the 100 metre freestyle with a time of 46.74 seconds.

Kyle Chalmers was fifth amongst male competitors in term of total medal count, winning a total of twelve medals, seven gold, four silver, and one bronze.

In early November, Kyle Chalmers was announced as one of two Australians, and the only male Australian, entered to compete at the 2021 World Short Course Championships in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates in December.

Kyle Chalmers being announced as one of the two Australian team members for the World Championships ranked as number four for the Swimming World "The Week That Was" honour the week of 8 November 2021, three spots behind Ilya Shymanovich of Belarus and Szebasztian Szabo of Hungary who tied for number one after equalling the world record in the short course 50 metre breaststroke and 50 metre butterfly respectively.

Less than two weeks before the start of competition, Kyle Chalmers withdrew from the Championships due to an ongoing shoulder injury.

Kyle Chalmers was named to the team Australia rosters for both the 2022 World Aquatics Championships and 2022 Commonwealth Games based on his times and place-finishes.

Kyle Chalmers placed tenth in the semifinals, not qualifying for the final with his time of 23.65 seconds.

Kyle Chalmers won the gold medal the following evening, finishing in a time of 47.51 seconds and less than eight-tenths of a second ahead of silver medalist Tom Dean of England and bronze medalist Duncan Scott of Scotland.

Later the same month, Kyle Chalmers won the gold medal in the 200 meter freestyle at the 2022 Australian Short Course Swimming Championships with a time of 1:40.98, sharing the podium with two Americans.

The first stop of the 2022 FINA Swimming World Cup, held beginning 21 October in Berlin, Germany, Kyle Chalmers won a silver medal in the 50 metre freestyle on day one, behind gold medalist Dylan Carter of Trinidad and Tobago, and a gold medal in the 100 metre freestyle on day two, finishing 0.50 seconds ahead of silver medalist Maxime Grousset with a 45.88.

Kyle Chalmers ranked fifth amongst male competitors at the first stop with a score of 53.4 points for all of his events.

Kyle Chalmers's performances earned 152.1 points across all three World Cup stops, ranking him as the sixth overall highest-scoring male competitor for the 2022 circuit.

In September, following his performances at the 2022 Australian Short Course Championships, Kyle Chalmers was named to the Australia roster for the 2022 World Short Course Championships, which was held starting 13 December in Melbourne.

In March 2023, at the year's New South Wales State Open Championships, Kyle Chalmers won the gold medal in the 100 metre freestyle with a 48.09 in the final, after advancing ranking first with a 48.64 in the preliminaries, and won the bronze medal in the 50 metre freestyle with a time of 22.37 seconds in the final.