Kyle Chalmers

Kyle Chalmers
Personal information
Nickname(s) Prince Chalmers[1]
National team  Australia
Born (1998-06-25) 25 June 1998[2]
Ashford, South Australia
Height 194 cm (6 ft 4 in)[3]
Weight 90 kg (198 lb)[4]
Sport
Sport Swimming
Strokes Butterfly, freestyle
Club Marion Swimming Club[5]
Coach Peter Bishop

Kyle Chalmers (born 25 June 1998) is an Australian competitive swimmer who specialises in the sprint freestyle events. He holds the junior world record in the 100 metre freestyle and won the gold medal in that event at the 2016 Summer Olympics.

Background

Chalmers was born in Port Lincoln, South Australia.[4] He is the son of former Australian rules football and Port Adelaide premiership player Brett Chalmers.[6]

Career

Chalmers won the gold in the 50 and 100 metre freestyle events at the 2015 FINA World Junior Swimming Championships in Singapore.[7][8] He was selected to compete in the 4×100 m medley relay at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships in Kazan, Russia. There he was not selected for the final but he emerged as the second-fastest 100m freestyle swimmer in the heats with a time of 47.86 seconds.[3]

2016 Summer Olympics

At the 2016 Olympic trials, Chalmers qualified for the Olympics by finishing 2nd in the 100 metre freestyle, behind Cameron McEvoy. He broke the junior world record with a time of 48.03.[9]

At the Rio de Janeiro Olympics, Chalmers won the gold medal in the 100 m freestyle in new junior world record of 47.58, the first Australian to do so since Michael Wenden in 1968.[10] He had also swam the fastest time in the heats, with his 47.90 s breaking his own junior world record.[11] In the 4x100m freestyle relay, he contributed to Australia taking a bronze medal. In the medley relay, he had the fastest split of the field with a time of 46.72, which helped the team to win the bronze medal. Historically only Pieter van den Hoogenband (46.70 in 2003) & Cameron McEvoy (46.60 in 2015) have been faster in textile swimwear.

References

  1. ↑ "'Prince' Chalmers worthy contender for McEvoy's sprint crown". The Australian. 26 September 2015. Retrieved 22 October 2015.
  2. ↑ "Kyle Chalmers". Engine Swim. Retrieved 28 August 2015.
  3. 1 2 Debelle, Penny. "Why Kyle Chalmers is Australia's next great swimmer". adelaidenow.com.au. News Corporation. Retrieved 6 August 2016.
  4. 1 2 "Kyle Chalmers". rio2016.olympics.com.au. Australian Olympic Committee. Retrieved 6 August 2016.
  5. ↑ "Sprint Prince Chalmers, 15 & A Boy Called Kyle, Cracks Thorpey Mark Then Goes 49.6". Swimvortex. 15 April 2014. Retrieved 28 August 2015.
  6. ↑ "Kyle Chalmers ready to make a splash in world swimming championships". The Sydney Morning Herald. 4 August 2015. Retrieved 28 August 2015.
  7. ↑ "Kyle Chalmers Sizzles in 50 Free Victory at 2015 FINA World Junior Championships". Swimming World Magazine. 28 August 2015. Retrieved 28 August 2015.
  8. ↑ "Kyle Chalmers Ticking All the Boxes As New Aussie Sprint Star". SwimSwam. 30 August 2015. Retrieved 1 September 2015.
  9. ↑ Jeffrey, Nicole (11 April 2016). "Swimming trials 2016: Cameron McEvoy wins men's 100m freestyle". The Australian. Retrieved 11 April 2016.
  10. ↑ Lutton, Phil (11 August 2016). "Kyle Chalmers embraces the pain to complete meteoric rise to Rio Olympics gloryl". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 11 August 2016.
  11. ↑ Keith, Braden (9 August 2016). "Kyle Chalmers Breaks World Junior Record in 100 Free". Swimswam. Retrieved 9 August 2016.
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