2025 BERGEN SWIM FESTIVAL
- Friday, April 4th – Sunday, April 6th
- Ado Arena, Bergen, Norway
- LCM (50m)
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26-year-old Kyle Chalmers is having a series of tremendous performances at the 2025 Bergen Swim Festival.
Racing in the home nation of fiance Ingeborg Løyning, Chalmers already ripped a 47.27 scorcher to take gold in the men’s 100m free. That beat two of his three Olympic medal-earning performances.
Tonight, Chalmers took on the 50m free, where the father-to-be crushed a new lifetime best of 21.78 to handily defeat the field.
After clocking a morning swim of 22.31 to claim the 2nd seed, Chalmers entered entirely new territory to register only the second sub-22 second time of his already-prolific career.
Sean Niewold of the Netherlands clocked 22.07 as the runner-up this evening while bronze went to Bjørnar Grytnes Laskerud of the host nation who touched in 22.23.
Entering this competition, Chalmers’ PB stood at the 21.98 notched at last year’s Australian Open Championships.
Earlier this year at the South Australian State Open Championships, Chalmers was near that outing, hitting 22.01.
Chalmers now ranks 4th in the world. Additionally, the ace checks in as Australia’s 8th-swiftest performer in history.
2024-2025 LCM Men 50 Free
Jack
21.66
| 2 | Cameron McEvoy | AUS | 21.70 | 12/01 |
| 3 | Ben PROUD | GBR | 21.73 | 03/15 |
| 4 | Kyle CHALMERS | AUS | 21.78 | 04/06 |
| 5 | Andrej Barna | SRB | 21.82 | 03/16 |
In terms of active Australian swimmers, Olympic champion Cam McEvoy still reigns supreme in the 50m free event, owning the national record in 21.06.
Additional domestic contenders for this summer’s Trials include Isaac Cooper, Jamie Jack, Thomas Nowakowski and Ben Armbruster.
Kyle always work in silent 🤫 if surprise coming….
Kyle is never a silent guy. Quite the opposite. But it’s not a bad thing.
Kyle 2028 50m prediction?
Pan Zahle
He’s also entered at next week’s Stockholm Open. Those Scandinavian meet organizers are paying some swimmers big appearance fees to show up. No wonder they’re in shape.
Kieran Smith, Lukas Martens, Rapsys, Meilutyte, Steenbergen and others will join next week.
so bloody consistent and a champ. a 46.8 or 46.9 isn’t out of question this year. he deserves it.
Didn’t think much of this at first but every bronze medal in the last decade has been 21.4 or slower. A 21.7 actually does put Kyle in the conversation for a medal if he can improve just a bit.
The difference being that he can’t cruise to a trials spot without tapering like he can in the 100.
I sometimes forget how young bro still is
I forgot that he’s younger than Dressel.
Cams ideas really moving out into the other Australians speed results since Fukuoka it’s so great to see after the nation never really had fast 50m results. 21.6 for Jamie, 21.7 for Kyle, Sam’s low 26 breast, Isaac’s low 24 back. Maybe a good edge for LA 2028 if all 50’s get added.