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Kyle Chalmers remains the only man under 48 seconds so far this season in the men’s 100m freestyle, hitting his 2nd sub-48 mark tonight while competing on day 2 of the 2019 Australian Championships. Although this meet is not the World Championships qualification meet, the warning shot still puts his competitor around the world on notice that #KingKyle is laser-focused on superior swimming towards Tokyo.
Kyle Chalmers with a seriously fast swim to take out the 100m Freestyle final – 47.48 😮@SwimmingAus | #CrownTheChamps pic.twitter.com/980N5fhYaV
— 7SportAU (@7SportStandby) April 8, 2019
As originally reported:
On the heels of Matthew Wilson’s monster 2:07.16 swim in the men’s 200m breaststroke to become the 4th fastest performer of all-time, 2016 Olympic champion Kyle Chalmers produced something special in the men’s 100m freestyle tonight.
Competing at his home pool on night 2 of the Australian National Championships, 20-year-old Chalmers cranked out an unbelievable 100m freestyle time of 47.48, beating his gold medal-winning time from the 2016 Rio Olympic Games. Chalmers’ time from Rio was 47.58, so he was faster by a tenth this evening.
Tonight the Marion swimmer split 23.08/24.40 to crush the field, with Cameron McEvoy hitting the wall well over half a second later in 49.07.
For Chalmers, his time represents the fastest in the world by a long shot, maintaining his post as the top dog in the world with his 2nd sub-48 second time of the year. His previous top mark of the season was the 47.89 produced at the NSW Championships.
2018-2019 LCM MEN 100 FREE
DRESSEL
46.96
| 2 | Kyle CHALMERS | AUS | 47.08 | 07/25 |
| 3 | Ryan HELD | USA | 47.39 | 07/31 |
| 4 | Vladislav GRINEV | RUS | 47.43 | 04/09 |
| 5 | Maxime ROONEY | USA | 47.61 | 07/31 |
Chalmers’ 47.48 outing this evening in South Australia now checks the lizard king and aspiring AFL player in as the 11th fastest performer of all-time, relegating American icon Michael Phelps to slot #12.
Grinev just went 47,74 on prelims of Russian Trials, he still have Semi and Finals.. someone else is in the game..
The real star of the race was McEvoy’s mustache. Had him looking like a 13 year old next to “Old Man” Chalmers.
Chalmers is a brute. He pulls himself almost clear up out of the water it looks like he’s hydroplaning versus swimming.
thats quick
1.2 seconds in front of McEvoy is a bit more than half a second!
McEvoy who?
The guy who swam the greatest swim I have ever seen when he went 47.04. But looks like he may never get there again, sadly.
I think he could be faster than this. He was destroying his underwaters and his kick was massive but his stoke was a little choppy. Smooths his upper body out I put him at 47.2 or faster.
Thorpey said same thing during commentary.
Fair call. I really don’t think the 100 WR is feasible given its 0.5sec away and he hasn’t the front half of those who’ve swam the 47.0s but a tenth or two from both front and back half are certainly plausible.
Having said that, this by no means says that he may not win at Worlds or in Tokyo; his big meet record is testament to that. If he swam 47.2 in the final in Tokyo, one would have to think he’d be on one of top 2 steps of the podium.
He could do it. His back half is so incredible. I maintain faith for a world record from Kyle. In the news this morning, he said he has not tapered and he did a 2.5 km warm up beforehand, which is much more than normal for him.
I would love to see that as well but just WHERE is that 0.5sec improvement going to come from ? He hasn’t the 50 speed of Cielo or Dressell or even McEvoy or Magnussen but rather relies on a killer 2nd 50 but is probably or least potentially the best 200 man of them all. As I indicated above, I think maybe 0.1/0.2 off either 50 is plausible but that still leaves him @0.2 short of the WR. Not saying its impossible, just not thinking it likely; this PB (great swim that it was) is only an incremental improvement of 0.1 on his Rio mark.
Well, I’d give him 0.2 sec for this one if he even had a race. McEvoy was in a different time zone. Dressel tends not to use his speed in the 100’s —- witness his 100 SCM at Worlds or how he always swims the 100 fly. He’s not going to be Tony Ervin out there to fly and die. There’s in water speed when breathing and there’s no-breath speed. MA, for example, has zero speed when he has to breathe. Chalmers has more swimming speed than anyone when he’s breathing as in a 100.
2.5 km is not that long of a warm up as far as elite swimmers are concerned.
Honestly warm up is so tied to the individual this means nothing. I do close to 2000 meet warm up at every meet, and I know swimmers who swim the same events as I yet do half that. It also doesn’t really make sense to me why you’d purposefully tire yourself out in warm up, just because you aren’t fully resting.
I’m curious as to what his best times are for a 50 and 100 kick, his leg drive the 2nd 50 is unreal
I follow quite many elite sprinters on IG and they often host Q&As where this question often comes up. From what I gathered they are around ~28 secs for 50 LCM kick. But this varies a lot, for example, Bruno Fratus was asked the same but he didn’t reveal any time, he just simply said he is more of an AWD swimmer 🙂 And at last Worlds he was clearly the fastest swimmer on top of the water.
Attention US Swimming and NCAA swimming meet organizers:
You know what made this video really enjoyable to watch? The venue host used multi-color lane lines (yellow in the center, etc). This made it a lot easier for viewers to keep track of the competitors — especially when the TV director switches shots from overhead to underwater to side view and back. Please do this for major US meets! BTW: nice swim Kyle!
Dude chill
Lol I agree, you’ve been at this for years.