2025 SWIM OPEN STOCKHOLM
- Saturday, April 12th – Tuesday, April 15th
- Stockholm, Sweden
- LCM (50m)
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- Day 1 Recap/Day 2 Recap/Day 3 Recap
- Entries/Live Results
The super speedy 2025 Swim Open Stockholm saw its last day of action unfold tonight with swimmers from the host nation, Belgium, Australia and beyond taking to the pool for some more World Championships-readying competition.
We reported how Olympian Lukas Märtens busted out the fastest time of his career en route to winning the men’s 800m free.
23-year-old Märtens stopped the clock at a mighty time of 7:39.10 to establish a new PB, German national record and #1 time in the world for the season.
What’s more, the newly-minted 400m free World Record holder negative split his race, giving swim enthusiasts something to wrap our heads around with Singapore on the horizon.
On the other end of the spectrum, making noise in the men’s 50m free event was 26-year-old Olympic champion Kyle Chalmers.
The Aussie continued his impressive series of performances with another sub-22-second 50m freestyle, punching 21.95 to grab the gold.
The next-closest competitor was Piotr Ludwiczak of Poland who nabbed silver in 22.14 while Josha Salchow of Germany rounded out the podium in 22.18.
It was just last week at the Bergen Swim Festival where father-to-be Chalmers threw down the fastest 50m free of his career, hitting a time of 21.78 to dip under the 22-second threshold on just the second occasion.
On the women’s side, on-fire Isabel Gose of Germany put up another impressive freestyle performance, this time in the 800m free.
22-year-old Olympic medalist Gose punched a result of 8:24.64 to handily defeat the field by over 11 seconds.
In doing so, she established a new meet record, overtaking the 8:24.67 retired countrywoman Sarah Kohler put on the books in 2018.
Additional Notes
- American Kieran Smith doubled up on his 400m IM victory with a win in the 200m IM event this evening. The former University of Florida Gator registered a gold medal-worthy tie of 1:59.10 as the only contestant to get under 2:01.
- Germany’s Alina Baievych topped the women’s 200m fly podium with an outing of 2:12.43. She’s been as quick as 2:10.09 in her career, a performance she nabbed en route to bagging bronze at the 2024 European Junior Championships.
- Lithuanian swimmer Kotryna Teterevkova got it done for gold in the women’s 100m breast, touching in 1:07.27.
- Marrit Steenbergen of the Netherlands got her hand on the wall first in the women’s 100m free, registering 53.44 as the gold medalist. Steenbergen opened in 25.87 and closed in 27.57 to represent the 4th-best performer in the world thus far this season.
2024-2025 LCM Women 100 Free
CURTIS
53.01
| 2 | Milou van Wijk | NED | 53.18 | 03/30 |
| 3 | Simone Manuel | USA | 53.23 | 03/06 |
| 4 | Marrit STEENBERGEN | NED | 53.44 | 04/15 |
| 5 | Darya KLEPIKOVA | RUS | 53.53 | 04/15 |
I know this isn’t the point of the article – but Chalmers is proof that being consistent and having the ability to perform under the highest pressure is what makes a great athlete. He is relentless, in the best way
He’s very consistent for more than 10 years.
He won his first international medals in 2015: 4×100 medley bronze in Kazan and 100 meter freestyle in Singapore.
Since then, he *always* medaled in 100 free in every international meet he entered. All this despite several injuries, illnesses, and surgeries in between.
No other male sprinter in the last 20 years has such consistency.
that speaks volumes about his talent, skills, and mental strength.
100%. As a swimming fan, he’s fantastic to watch
He has to be sub 21.5 to be taken seriously in the 50. I think you are going to see an increase in the number of people sub 21.5 now that sprinting has a greater emphasis in LA.
his 50 is more of an accessory to his 100
I think this is more of a I gotta get out here with Pan to have a chance than a 50 focus
Hang it up already Kyle. Go do something outside of swim for once, you’ve been doing this for way too long.
She says, less than a year after winning an individual Olympic silver medal lol
that is a really poor take. Olympic silver medallist less than a year ago and younger than dressel. Is it time for him to go as well?
imagine being so out of touch with swimming to think an Olympic silver medalist (in the previous OLY) is you staying in the sport too long. some fans I think just choose to be willfully ignorant
Chalmers knows he needs to swim 21 consistently if he wants to swim sub 47
God is real
50 fly PB but 50/100 free slower than last week. Not sure what this means. Maybe he has more to drop in the 50 fly when he’s in great form?
Chalmers 100 fly arc
Or he just races freestyle more often so the drops don’t happen as much.