2020 NEW SOUTH WALES STATE OPEN CHAMPIONSHIPS
- Friday, March 13th – Sunday, March 15th
- Sydney Olympic Park Aquatic Center (SOPAC)
- 50m (LCM)
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- Start Lists
- Day 1 Recap/Day 2 Recap
- Live Results
21-year-old Olympic gold medalist Kyle Chalmers already wrapped up 3 victories here at the 2020 New South Wales State Open Championships, having topped the podium across the 200m fly, 100m free and 200m free events.
To wrap up his meet, the Marion swimmer powered his way to a new lifetime best in the men’s 100m fly, taking his 4th individual gold here in a time of 51.37.
Chalmers established himself as the top-seeded swimmer of the morning, hitting a heats swim of 53.58 as the only racer under 54 seconds.
Tonight, Chalmers broke through with splits of 24.12/27.25 to clear a big-time effort of 51.37, a time placing him among the top performers of the season in slot #8. That’s extremely respectable for this versatile swimmer whose 100m fly is an ‘off event’ from his bread-and-butter sprint freestyles.
Entering these NSW State Championships, Chalmers’ 100m fly personal best rested at the 52.07 logged at the 2019 Australian National Championships. That outing represented just the man’s 3rd time ever under the 53-second barrier.
With his 51.37 outing tonight in Sydney, Chalmers has become Australia’s 3rd fastest 100m fly performer of all-time.
| #1 – 50.85 | Andrew Lauterstein | AUS | 2009 World Champs | 7/26/2009 | Rome |
| #2 – 51.00 | Grant Irvine | AUS | 7/29/2017 | Budapest | |
| #3 – 51.37 | Kyle Chalmers | AUS | NSW State Open Championships | 03/15/2020 | Sydney |
| #4 – 51.47 | Matthew Temple & David Morgan | AUS | 2019 AUS World Champ Trials | 6/9/2019 | Brisbane |
| #6 – 51.67 | Chris Wright | AUS | 2012 EnergyAustralia Swimming | 3/15/2012 | Adelaide |
For additional perspective, Chalmers’ time here would have rendered the Aussie as the 5th place finisher at the 2019 World Championships.
My prediction:
Chalmers to become the fifth swimmer after Duke Kahanamoku, Johnny Weissmuller, Alexander Popov and Pieter VDH to defend 100 m free Olympic gold.
He’s becoming like Dressel, just with an individual Olympic gold.
4 guys under 51.5 in the last 3 years and 3 of them in the last year is not to bad.
Faster swimmer than dressel, slower start and underwaters
Let us know when they start the 100 free middle of the pool
come on, you know what he means. In the middle part of the pool, Chalmers is faster than Dressel. That’s a fact.
A lot of people are faster than dressel over the water. Fratus made up like half a body length in the 50 last year. Most elite 50 flyers tend to make up some ground on him. Even 100 fly last year Minakov didn’t lose Michael ground on the swimming portion. It just seems that everyone else with ridiculous starts like dressel tend to be way slower over the water (ex. Brad Tandy). So far it’s really just Dressel who’s success mixed the two together.
If the “middle” is defined as 85 meters out.
Yeah. Start and underwaters are part of boxing, I assume.
He’s going to be unreal at the non-Olympics.
Lizard boy is swimming well
If you extrapolate from his freestyle times here, it looks like he could be swimming 50low in the 100fly and picking up silver
No one on here has the capabilities to extrapolate except me
Matt Targett isn’t top 5 all time? That’s nuts
neither Geoff Huegill