Chalmers Puts Up Another Sub-22-Second 50 Free To Close Out Swim Open Stockholm

2025 SWIM OPEN STOCKHOLM

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

SaraITA
CURTIS
04/15
53.01
2Milou
van Wijk
NED53.1803/30
3Simone
Manuel
USA53.2303/06
4Marrit
STEENBERGEN
NED53.4404/15
5Darya
KLEPIKOVA
RUS53.5304/15
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Lpman
2 hours ago

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.

Laura Bishop
3 hours ago

Hang it up already Kyle. Go do something outside of swim for once, you’ve been doing this for way too long.

GOATKeown
Reply to  Laura Bishop
36 minutes ago

She says, less than a year after winning an individual Olympic silver medal lol

Thomas The Tank Engine
4 hours ago

Chalmers knows he needs to swim 21 consistently if he wants to swim sub 47

Daniel Meyer
4 hours ago

God is real

GOATKeown
5 hours ago

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?

RealCrocker5040
Reply to  GOATKeown
3 hours ago

Chalmers 100 fly arc

cheese
Reply to  GOATKeown
2 hours ago

Or he just races freestyle more often so the drops don’t happen as much.

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