Kyle Chalmers Enters Butterfly Events For Australian Championships

2022 AUSTRALIAN SWIMMING CHAMPIONSHIPS

  • Wednesday, May 18th – Sunday, May 22nd
  • SA Aquatic & Leisure Centre
  • World Championships/Commonwealth Games Qualifier
  • LCM (50m)

Although entries for the 2022 Australian Swimming Championships don’t close until tomorrow, Tuesday, May 2nd, we know of at least two competitors who will be diving into the pool come May 18th.

We reported how multi-Olympic champion Ariarne Titmus is planning on racing at the Championships, despite opting out of this summer’s World Championships. And now her fellow Olympic medalist Kyle Chalmers is following down the same path.

The 23-year-old had also previously stated he will not be racing in Budapest, although he is already prequalified by way of his Olympic silver. He will instead will be targeting Birmingham for the Commonwealths.

Nevertheless, his social media indicates he has indeed entered the Australian Swimming Championships, at least in the 50m and 100m butterfly events.

Chalmers took 100m free gold at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio and followed that up with a silver at last year’s edition of the Games in Tokyo. Since then, the man has logged a new short course 100 free World Record but pulled out of the 2020 Short Course World Championships for shoulder surgery. As such, we’ll see how the ‘cyborg’ that is Chalmers performs for the first time in 2022 in just a couple of weeks’ time.

Although not his bread-and-butter freestyle events, Chalmers has been formidable in the 50m and 100m fly, owning lifetime bests of 23.48 and 51.37 respectively, with both outings having been produced in 2020. With his being pre-qualified for Commonwealths as well, it’s not critical Chalmers swim his best events at these upcoming Aussie Trials.

In This Story

18
Leave a Reply

Subscribe
Notify of

18 Comments
newest
oldest most voted
Inline Feedbacks
View all comments
Sub13
2 years ago

And yet another insta post about butterfly. I have high hopes for trials! Also Kyle is hilarious

https://www.instagram.com/p/CdFxxLYhTz8/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

Gheko
2 years ago

Well I guess he has been training with a 50.4 100 flyer in Matt Temple so he could surprise with a sub 51

Troyy
Reply to  Gheko
2 years ago

I think he’s been planning to swim fly since before Temple moved to SASI.

Skip
2 years ago

Geez as if surgery makes him a cyborg. Go kyle

Taa
2 years ago

What I want to know is if I pay his entry fee can I pick which event he swims?

Sub13
2 years ago

Assuming he isn’t entered in anything else, this seems to suggest 100 free is the only free event he’ll swim at CG, despite being defending champion in the 200.

I’m very interested to see how this turns out. He has posted about butterfly A LOT this year and he doesn’t seem like one to make a fuss unless he was really serious about it and knows he has a competitive time.

Joel
Reply to  Sub13
2 years ago

I think it says they are guaranteed a spot, but it does not say that it will be in the events that they won Olympic medals in. Obviously he’ll do 100 free. Not sure about others.

Mark
Reply to  Joel
2 years ago

No guaranteed spots for any Australian team. Results at trials only means of getting a spot.

Troyy
Reply to  Mark
2 years ago

Tokyo individual medalists are preselected for Comm Games.

Sherry Smit
2 years ago

Is McKeown swimming at worlds?

Scotty
Reply to  Sherry Smit
2 years ago

She is

Sub13
Reply to  Sherry Smit
2 years ago

I don’t believe she’s said she isn’t so I’m definitely assuming she is at this stage

Jim
Reply to  Sherry Smit
2 years ago

It was reported in February that she wasn’t so unless anything’s changed

Admin
Reply to  Jim
2 years ago

@Jim I think maybe the confusion is Emma McKeon said she’s out, Kaylee McKeown has not declared herself out of Worlds (that I’ve seen). Does that clear it up? Unless I missed a Kaylee McKeown announcement…

Sub13
Reply to  Braden Keith
2 years ago

I believe Kaylee was one of the rumoured athletes who didn’t want to attend WCs last year, but she has never actually made any announcement about it. I think people are confusing her with Emma

Steve Nolan
2 years ago

I zoomed in on the picture for like half a second, only caught a “28.41” out of the corner of my eye. Checked again, lol’d that he legit posted receipts.

Verram
Reply to  Steve Nolan
2 years ago

Just means superstars don’t get free pass to compete at trials .. him and his sponsors stil have to fork out for entry fees

About Retta Race

Former Masters swimmer and coach Loretta (Retta) thrives on a non-stop but productive schedule. Nowadays, that includes having earned her MBA while working full-time in IT while owning French 75 Boutique while also providing swimming insight for BBC.

Read More »