On-Fire Kyle Chalmers Cranks Out 22.89 50 Fly As #2 Aussie Ever

2025 SWIM OPEN STOCKHOLM

• Saturday, April 12th – Tuesday, April 15th
• Stockholm, Sweden
• LCM (50m)
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26-year-old Kyle Chalmers has been on fire as of late, impressing big-time at the Bergen Swim Festival last week and now at the 2025 Swim Open Stockholm.

Tonight the Aussie tried the men’s 50m fly on for size and succeeded in spades, cranking out a new lifetime best and Australian textile record of 22.89 to take the gold.

Chalmers was pushed by Dutch national record holder Nyls Korstanje who settled for silver in a solid 23.02 while Polish veteran Konrad Czerniak rounded out the podium in 23.54.

Entering this competition, Olympic multi-medalist Chalmers’ lifetime best in the 50m fly rested at the 23.10 he notched at the 2024 Australian National Championships.

This morning’s prelims saw the megastar come within range of that, registering 23.28 as the 2nd-seeded swimmer behind Korstanje who was 22.97, faster than his final performance.

But then Chalmers entered entirely new territory by scoring his first-ever sub-23-second swim in the 50m fly with tonight’s 22.89.

Retired Aussie Olympian Matt Target‘s supersuited national record of 22.73 from 2009 remains intact, although Chalmers was just.16 outside that longstanding benchmark. Marion’s Chalmers now ranks as the #2 Austerlian performer ever and the 3rd-swiftest swimmer in the world so far this season.

As a refresher, Chalmers scored a huge in-season swim of 47.27 in the 100m free followed by a lifetime best of 21.78 in the 50m free at the Bergen Swim Festival just days ago as an announcement to the world that he is still in peak form despite several heart and shoulder surgeries.