Chalmers Posts 48.03 100 Free, Gaspard Logs 24.42 50 Free Belgian Record In Stockholm

2025 SWIM OPEN STOCKHOLM

• Saturday, April 12th – Tuesday, April 15th
• Stockholm, Sweden
• LCM (50m)
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The penultimate night of racing at the 2025 Swim Open Stockholm saw 26-year-old Olympic champion Kyle Chalmers back in the water doing what he does best.

The Aussie took on the men’s 100m freestyle final, where he stopped the clock at a swift mark of 48.03.

Splitting 23.36/24.67, father-to-be Chalmers took down retired Olympian Pieter Timmers’ previous meet record of 48.87 logged in 2018.

Behind Chalmers this evening was German Josha Salchow, who put up the 7th-fastest time of his career with a silver medal-worthy result of 48.30, sliding under the World Aquatics ‘A’ standard of 48.34 needed for Singapore.

Austria’s Heiko Gigler rounded out the podium in 48.63, within range of his best-ever 48.36 from last year.

As a refresher, Chalmers has been swimming lights out the past couple of weeks, beginning with the Bergen Swim Festival.

There in Norway, he tore a time of 47.27 in the 100m free followed by a lifetime best of 21.78 in the 50m free. He already clocked a lifetime best of 22.89 in the 50m fly earlier here in Sweden to become Australia’s #2 performer of all-time in the event.

Germany’s 22-year-old Isabel Gose put on a show in the women’s 400m free, registering a head-turning time of 4:04.95. That was just over 2 seconds outside the 4:02.14 national record she put on the books en route to placing 5th in the event at last year’s Olympic Games.

Open water Olympic silver medalist Moesha Johnson of Australia scored silver this evening in 4:09.17, also under the World Aquatics ‘A’ standard, although Aussies need to make the grade at their June World Trials meet.

Gose now ranks as the #2 swimmer in the world this season, sitting only behind last year’s Olympic bronze medalist Katie Ledecky of the United States. The reigning gold medalist in this event, Ariarne Titmus of Australia, is still remaining out of the pool on an extended post-Olympics break.

20-year-old Texas commit Ksawery Masiuk of Poland was near his season-best in the final of the men’s 100m backstroke.

The European Championships multi-medalist turned in a time of 53.09 to beat retired Romanian Robert Glinta’s meet mark of 53.48 from 2022.

Opening in 25.58 and closing in 27.51, Masiuk’s result was just.19 off the swifter 52.90 he established at last month’s Polish Grand Prix.

Before the Russian Championships kicked off today from Kazan, Masiuk was ranked 5th in the world but he dropped down to 8th after an onslaught by Kliment Kolesnikov (52.04), Miron Lifintsev (52.15) and Pavel Samusenko (52.40).

Of note, silver went to Lukas Märtens of Germany who touched in 54.18 just two days after breaking the supersuited World Record in the men’s 400m free.

Märtens also won the men’s 200m free gold last night and his 1back performance this evening wiped out his previous best-ever effort of 54.49 from last year.

The Americans were represented tonight by Olympian Kieran Smith who grabbed gold in the men’s 400m IM.

24-year-old Smith punched a result of 4:15.10 to beat the field by nearly 5 seconds en route to posting a season-best. His Olympic teammate Carson Foster remains atop the world rankings with the only sub-4:10 performance on the globe thus far (4:09.51).

As for Smith, the former University of Florida Gator owns a career-quickest time of 4:14.04 in this event so it’s a good sign that he’s already within striking distance this far out from Trials.

Finally, the women’s 50m free saw Florine Gaspard of Belgium rip a new lifetime best as she topped the podium. That checked in as a new national record, overtaking the previous standard of 24.53 she established earlier this year at the Edinburgh International.

She further devled under the World Aquatics ‘A’ cut of 24.86 and ranks #1 in the world this season. She dethroned China’s Wu Qingfeng who previously held the top time at the 24.44 from March’s Chinese Spring Championships.

Dutch ace Marrit Steenbergen was also under he A’ standard with a smooth 24.79 and Germany’s Anglina Kohler followed suit, earning bronze in 24.82.

Additional Notes

• Spain’s Estella Tonrath Nollgen was too quick to catch in the women’s 200m back, producing a strong 2:10.29 for the gold. That held off Poland’s Laura Bernat who notched 2:10.41 with both women clearing the World Aquatics ‘A’ standard of 2:11.08.
• Adrian Jaskiewicz of Poland grabbed gold in the men’s 200m fly, hitting 1:57.50 to get to the wall about a second ahead of the pack.
• Lithuanian Kotryna Teterevkova delivered a Singapore-worthy swim in the women’s 200m breast. She stopped the clock at 2:24.16, the 8th-best performance of her career.
• The women’s 200m IM saw Roos Vanotterdijk of Belgium put up a time of 2:13.22 to take the gold by well over 2 seconds.