Kyle Chalmers, (born 25 June 1998) is an Australian competitive

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. He is a

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holder in the

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, 4×100 metre medley relay, and

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4×100 metre mixed freestyle relay. He is the

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and Australian record holder in the short course 50 metre butterfly and 50 metre freestyle. At the 2014 Oceania Swimming Championships, Chalmers won the Oceania title in the 50 metre butterfly and 100 metre freestyle. He was the 2016

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in the

, winning the

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in world junior record time. In 2018, he was

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champion in the 200 metre freestyle. He also won a gold medal in the

at the

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and a silver medal at the

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in the

. He won his second

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in the 100 metre freestyle Olympic Games event at the

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, winning the silver medal with a time of 47.08 in the final. In 2022, he won the gold medal in the 100 metre freestyle at the

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and the 2022 World Short Course Championships.

Background

Chalmers was born in

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. He is the son of former

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and premiership player Brett Chalmers. He attended Immanuel College in South Australia.

2014–2015

2014 Oceania Championships

Competing as a 15-year-old at his first senior international swimming championships, the 2014 Oceania Swimming Championships in

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in May, Chalmers won the gold medal in the 50 metre butterfly with a time of 24.35 seconds, finishing three-tenths os a second ahead of silver medalist in the event Nielsen Varoy of New Zealand.Commings, Jeff (20 May 2014)
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''. Retrieved 17 April 2022. He also won the Oceania title and gold medal in the 100 metre freestyle, swimming a time of 50.71 seconds in the final to finish less than two-tenths of a second ahead of second-place finisher Steven Kent of New Zealand.

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(23 May 2014)
"10th Oceania Swimming Championships: Results"
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"6 More Medals For Hosts New Zealand To 5 For Australia On Oceania Day 2 Champs"
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''. Retrieved 17 April 2022. In his other individual events, he placed fourth in the 50 metre freestyle final, with a time of 23.48 seconds, and eighth in the preliminary heats of the 100 metre butterfly with a 56.96 before withdrawing from competing in the final. For his relay events, he won a gold medal as part of the 4×50 metre mixed freestyle relay, splitting a 23.26 for the second leg of the relay in the final, a silver medal leading-off the 4×100 metre freestyle relay in 51.65 seconds in the final, and a gold medal in the 4×100 metre mixed freestyle relay, splitting a 50.84 for the third-leg of the finals relay.

2014 Summer Youth Olympics

Later in the year, at the

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in August in

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, Chalmers won three bronze medals, one in the 4×100 metre medley relay, one in the 4×100 metre mixed freestyle relay, and one in the 4×100 metre mixed medley relay, as well as placing fifth in the 4×100 metre freestyle relay, ninth in the 50 metre butterfly, eleventh in the 50 metre freestyle, fifteenth in the

, and not starting the 200 metre freestyle."Nanjing 2014 Youth Olympic Games: Official Results Book Swimming"
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2015 World Aquatics Championships

On the first day of the

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in early August, Chalmers split a 47.92 for the second leg of the 4×100 metre freestyle relay in the prelims heats, helping achieve a thirteenth-place finish in 3:16.34.

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(2 August 2015)
"16th FINA World Championships Kazan (RUS): Men's 4x100m Freestyle Heats Results Summary"
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''. Retrieved 30 March 2022. For his 47.92 split, he was selected to compete in the 4×100 metre medley relay heats. The eighth and final day, he improved upon that time, swimming a 47.86 for the freestyle leg of the relay to help qualify the relay to the final ranking second with a 3:31.86.

(9 August 2015)
"16th FINA World Championships Kazan (RUS): Men's 4x100m Medley Relay Heats Results Summary"
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''. Retrieved 30 March 2022. For the finals relay,

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substituted in for Chalmers and all prelims and finals relay team members won a silver medal when the finals relay placed second with a 3:30.08.

(9 August 2015)
"16th FINA World Championships Kazan (RUS): Men's 4x100m Medley Relay Final Results"
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''. Retrieved 30 March 2022.

2015 World Junior Championships

Later the same month, at the 2015 World Junior Swimming Championships in

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in late August, Chalmers won three gold medals, three silvers medals, and one bronze medal, medaling in all seven events he competed in.

(30 August 2015)
"5th FINA World Junior Championships 2015 Singapore (SIN): Complete Results Book"
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''. Retrieved 30 March 2022.McKern, James (10 August 2016)
"Who is Australia's newest golden boy?"
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''. Retrieved 30 March 2022. On day one, in his first event, the 4×100 metre freestyle relay, he won a gold medal, splitting a 48.41 for the second leg of the relay in the final to contribute to the winning time of 3:17.39.

(25 August 2015)
"5th FINA World Junior Championships 2015 Singapore (SIN): Men's 4x100m Freestyle Final Results"
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''. Retrieved 30 March 2022. For his second event, the 4×100 metre mixed medley relay, he split a 47.68 for the freestyle leg of the relay to help achieve a final time of 3:48.27 and win the silver medal.

(26 August 2015)
"5th FINA World Junior Championships 2015 Singapore (SIN): Mixed 4 x 100m Medley Final Results"
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''. Retrieved 30 March 2022. The third day, he helped win the silver medal in the 4×100 metre mixed freestyle relay in 3:28.59, splitting a 48.89 for the second leg of the relay in the final.

(27 August 2015)
"5th FINA World Junior Championships 2015 Singapore (SIN): Mixed 4 x 100m Freestyle Final Results"
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''. Retrieved 30 March 2022. On the fourth day of competition, Chalmers swam a time of 22.19 seconds in the final of the 50 metre freestyle to win the gold medal, finishing 0.17 seconds ahead of silver medalist in the event Michael Andrew of the

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(28 August 2015)
"5th FINA World Junior Championships 2015 Singapore (SIN): Men's 50m Freestyle Final Results"
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''. Retrieved 30 March 2022. Later in the same session, he won a silver medal as part of the 4×200 metre freestyle relay, splitting a 1:50.13 for the third leg of the relay to contribute to the finals relay time of 7:17.76.

(28 August 2015)
"5th FINA World Junior Championships 2015 Singapore (SIN): Men's 4x200m Freestyle Final Results"
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''. Retrieved 30 March 2022. In his second to last event, on the sixth and final day of competition, he won the gold medal in the 100 metre freestyle with a Championships record time of 48.47 seconds, breaking the record of 48.87 seconds set by

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the day before.

(30 August 2015)
"5th FINA World Junior Championships 2015 Singapore (SIN): Men's 100m Freestyle Final Results"
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''. Retrieved 30 March 2022. Concluding the Championships, he won a bronze medal in the 4×100 metre medley relay, contributing a split of 48.38 for the freestyle leg of the relay to finish in 3:40.21.

(30 August 2015)
"5th FINA World Junior Championships 2015 Singapore (SIN): Men's 4x100m Medley Relay Final Results"
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''. Retrieved 30 March 2022.

2016–2018

2016 Summer Olympics

At the 2016 Olympic Trials, Chalmers qualified for the Olympics by finishing second in the 100 metre freestyle, behind

. He broke the junior world record with a time of 48.03. At the

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, Chalmers became the first Australian to win the gold medal in the

since

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in 1968, doing so in a new world junior record time of 47.58 seconds and finishing over two tenths of a second ahead of silver medalist

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and bronze medalist

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of the

. He had also swum the fastest time in the heats, with his 47.90 breaking his own junior world record. Additionally, he broke the world junior record he set in the prelims heats at 47.90 by swimming a 47.88 in the semifinals.Mendes, Rodrigo (19 August 2016)
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(46.70 in 2003) and

(46.60 in 2015) had been faster in textile swimwear.

2016 Swimming World Cup

Following the 2016 Summer Olympic Games, Chalmers competed in the 2016 Swimming World Cup, setting a world junior record in the

100 metre freestyle at the stop in Singapore in October with a time of 46.61 seconds.

(21 October 2016)
"FINA/airweave Swimming World Cup 2016 Singapore: Men's 100m Freestyle Final Results"
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''. Retrieved 14 October 2021.Keith, Braden (21 October 2016)
"Kyle Chalmers Sets World Junior Record In 100 Free In Singapore"
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''. Retrieved 14 October 2021. His time earned him the silver medal in the event, finishing second only to Vladimir Morozov of Russia by 0.69 seconds. Four days later, at the World Cup stop in

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, he lowered the world junior record in the short course 100 metre freestyle to a time of 46.12 seconds.

(25 October 2016)
"FINA/airweave Swimming World Cup 2016 Tokyo: Men's 100m Freestyle Final Results"
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''. Retrieved 14 October 2021.Ortegon, Karl (25 October 2016)
"Four Days Later, Kyle Chalmers Re-Smashes 100 SCM Free WJR In Tokyo"
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''. Retrieved 14 October 2021. This time Chalmers narrowly edged out Vladimir Morozov for the gold medal, finishing 0.03 seconds ahead of him.

2018 Commonwealth Games

In the 200 metre freestyle on the second day of the

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in April, Chalmers won the gold medal with a time of 1:45.56, finishing 0.33 seconds ahead of silver-medalist in the event,

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also of Australia. Gold Coast 2018 (6 April 2018)
"Gold Coast 2018 XXI Commonwealth Games: Swimming Men's 200m Freestyle Final Results"
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''. 6 April 2018. Retrieved 16 April 2022. Later in the same session, he won a second gold medal, anchoring the 4×100 metre freestyle relay in the final with a 48.25 to help achieve a final mark of 3:12.96. Gold Coast 2018 (6 April 2018)
"Gold Coast 2018 XXI Commonwealth Games: Swimming Men's 4x100m Freestyle Final Results"
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''. Retrieved 26 March 2022. Two days later, he started off the finals session tying

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for the silver medal in the

with a time of 48.15 seconds, finishing thirteenth-hundredths of a second behind gold medalist Duncan Scott of

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. Gold Coast 2018 (8 April 2018)
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''. Retrieved 26 March 2022.Isaacson, David (8 April 2018)
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''. Retrieved 16 April 2022. In the final of the 4×200 metre freestyle relay, he split a 1:46.47 for the second leg of the relay to win the gold medal alongside relay teammates Alexander Graham,

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, and Mack Horton in a Commonwealth Games record time of 7:05.97. Gold Coast 2018 (8 April 2018)
"Gold Coast 2018 XXI Commonwealth Games: Swimming Men's 4x200m Freestyle Final Results"
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''. Retrieved 26 March 2022. On the final day of competition two days later, Chalmers won his fifth medal in his fifth event, contributing a split of 47.25 seconds for the freestyle leg of the 4×100 metre medley relay in the final to help win the gold medal in 3:31.04, which was a new Commonwealth Games record for the event. Gold Coast 2018 (10 April 2018)
"Gold Coast 2018 XXI Commonwealth Games: Swimming Men's 4x100m Medley Relay Final Results"
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''. Retrieved 26 March 2022.

2018 Pan Pacific Championships

At the

in Tokyo, Japan, Chalmers won the gold medal in the

with a time of 48.00 seconds, narrowly winning over silver medalist in the event and fellow Australian, Jack Cartwright, who finished 0.22 seconds behind Chalmers."Australia takes first, second place in men's 100m"
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''. 10 August 2018. Retrieved 9 April 2022. In addition to his gold medal, he won silver medals as part of the 4×200 metre freestyle relay and the 4×100 metre freestyle relay, a bronze medal in the 4×100 metre medley relay, and placed ninth in the preliminary heats of the 200 metre freestyle before withdrawing from competing in the b-final of the event."Pan Pacific Swimming Championships 2018: Total Ranking"
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2019–2021

2019 World Aquatics Championships

On day one of swimming competition at the

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, Chalmers won a bronze medal in the 4×100 metre freestyle relay, splitting a 47.06 for the anchor leg in the final to help achieve a mark of 3:11.22 after splitting a 47.98 in the prelims heats to help advance the relay to the final ranking fourth in 3:12.65.

(21 July 2019)
"18th FINA World Championships Gwangju (KOR): Men's 4x100m Freestyle Final Results"
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''. Retrieved 4 April 2022.

(21 July 2019)
"18th FINA World Championships Gwangju (KOR): Men's 4x100m Freestyle Preliminary Results Summary"
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''. Retrieved 4 April 2022. The following day, he placed 13th in the semifinals of the 200 metre freestyle with a time of 1:46.21.

(22 July 2019)
"18th FINA World Championships Gwangju (KOR): Men's 200m Freestyle Semifinal Results Summary"
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''. Retrieved 4 April 2022. For the final of the

on day five, he swam a personal best time of 47.08 seconds and won the silver medal.

(25 July 2019)
"18th FINA World Championships Gwangju (KOR): Men's 100m Freestyle Final Results"
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''. Retrieved 26 March 2022. The sixth day, Chalmers contributed a split of 1:45.37 for the second leg of the 4×200 metre freestyle relay in the final to help achieve a gold medal-win in a new Oceanian record and Australian record time of 7:00.85.

(26 July 2019)
"18th FINA World Championships Gwangju (KOR): Men's 4x200m Freestyle Final Results"
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''. Retrieved 14 October 2021. In the final of the 4×100 metre mixed freestyle relay on the seventh day, he helped achieve a silver medal and new Oceanian and Australian national records of 3:19.97 in the event, splitting a 47.37 for the lead-off leg of the relay.

(27 July 2019)
"18th FINA World Championships Gwangju (KOR): Mixed 4x100m Freestyle Final Results"
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''. Retrieved 14 October 2021. Concluding the Championships on the eighth and final day of swimming competition, he split a 46.60 for the freestyle leg of the 4×100 metre medley relay in the final for a fifth-place finish in 3:30.42.

(28 July 2019)
"18th FINA World Championships Gwangju (KOR): Men's 4x100m Medley Relay Final Results"
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''. Retrieved 4 April 2022.

2020 Summer Olympics

Chalmers battled numerous injuries in the lead up to qualification for the

2020 Olympics, which included undergoing surgery to his shoulder as well as his heart."Olympic swimmer Kyle Chalmers has heart surgery less than a year out from Tokyo games”
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''. 25 November 2020. Retrieved 8 October 2021. On the flip side, Chalmers set an Oceanian record and Australian record in the 50 metre freestyle at 20.74 seconds between surgeries, though the record was in short course meters and the Olympic Games were conducted in

metres."FINA: Kyle Chalmers"
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''. Retrieved 8 October 2021. Despite the troublesome preparation, he qualified fastest for the men's 200 metre freestyle in the Australian Olympic swimming trials after recording a time of 1:45.48. His win marked his third-consecutive national title in the 200 metre freestyle."Kyle Chalmers and Ariarne Titmus win at Australian swimming championships"
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''. 15 April 2021. Retrieved 8 October 2021. Chalmers then backed up that performance with a strong showing in the men's 100 metre freestyle, delivering his fastest time in two years of 47.59 seconds. In Tokyo, Japan at the

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, held in 2021 due to the

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, Chalmers competed in the 4×100 metre freestyle relay, 4×200 metre freestyle relay, 100 metre freestyle, 4×100 metre medley relay and won one silver medal and two bronze medals.

;

(1 August 2021). For his first race of the 2020 Olympics, Chalmers anchored the Australian men's relay team to help win the bronze medal in the final of the 4×100 metre freestyle relay, where his split of 46.44 seconds was the fifth-fastest freestyle leg of all time. In his second event, the 4×200 metre freestyle relay, Chalmers helped the Australian relay team secure the bronze medal in the final, with the relay touching third just 0.03 seconds after the second place relay team from

and a little over three seconds after the gold medal winning relay team from

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. He equalled his personal best time of 47.08 seconds in the final of the

, finishing 0.06 seconds behind

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of the United States, 0.36 seconds ahead of

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of Russia, and 0.64 seconds ahead of Maxime Grousset of

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to win the silver medal."Kyle Chalmers wins silver in 100m freestyle"
''

''. 28 July 2021. Retrieved 22 September 2021.Callier, Cédric (11 August 2022)
"Máxime Grousset, un nouveau statut à confirmer"
(in French). ''

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''. Retrieved 12 August 2022. Bringing his competition to a close at the 2020 Olympic Games, Chalmers anchored the 4×100 metre medley relay both in the prelims and the finals, helping the relay place fifth with his split of 46.96 seconds in the final.

2021 Swimming World Cup

Stop 1: Berlin

Embarking on the 2021

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, Chalmers started competing at the first stop, conducted in short course metres in

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, where he was named as one of the Australian stars to watch during competition by ''

'' and

.Sutherland, James (27 September 2021)
"Star-Studded Field Set To Compete At Opening Leg Of FINA World Cup In Berlin"
''

''. Retrieved 8 October 2021."Olympic and World champions to set sights on SWC 2021"
''

''. 28 September 2021. Retrieved 8 October 2021. In advance of competition, FINA also featured a picture of Chalmers with his silver medal from the 100 metre freestyle at the 2020 Summer Olympics on their website, highlighting him as one of the star athletes to compete in the World Cup circuit."Star Athletes in Berlin: Kyle Chalmers (AUS)"
''

''. Retrieved 19 October 2021. The first day of competition, 1 October, Chalmers won the gold medal in the 50 metre freestyle with a time of 21.01 seconds in the final.

(1 October 2021)
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''

''. Retrieved 8 October 2021.Race, Retta (1 October 2021)
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''

''. Retrieved 8 October 2021. His swim stopped the 29-consecutive-race and four-year-long winning streak in the 50 metre freestyle at the Swimming World Cup by Vladimir Morozov of Russia, meaning Chalmers was the first male other than Morozov to win the 50 metre freestyle in the last 30 occurrences of the race at the World Cup."Chalmers halts Morozov's four-year, 29-race reign in the dash"
''

''. 1 October 2021. Retrieved 8 October 2021. Day two, Chalmers finished less than two seconds ahead of

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of the

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and

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of the

to secure the gold medal in the 100 metre freestyle with his time of 45.73 seconds.

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''. Retrieved 8 October 2021.Race, Retta (2 October 2021)
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''. Retrieved 8 October 2021.Binner, Andrew (2 October 2021)
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''

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''. Retrieved 9 October 2021. Come the final day of competition in Berlin, Chalmers swam a personal best time of 1:40.82 in the 200 metre freestyle, dropping over six tenths of a second off his previous best time of 1:41.50 and winning the silver medal in the event.

(3 October 2021)
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''. Retrieved 8 October 2021.Race, Retta (3 October 2021)
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''

''. Retrieved 8 October 2021. His swim was two hundredths of a second slower than the Oceanian and Australian records of 1:40.80 in the event.Race, Retta (9 October 2021)
"Chalmers & Sates 200 Free Rematch Set For Budapest's Final Night"
''

''. Retrieved 9 October 2021.

Stop 2: Budapest

Following his success at the Berlin stop, Chalmers decided to continue on the World Cup circuit, competing at the second stop in

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where ''

'' and FINA noted him as a competitor to watch in the 100 metre freestyle race.Lohn, John (5 October 2021)
"FINA World Cup Shifting to Budapest With Kristof Milak Slated For Action"
''

''. Retrieved 8 October 2021."More Swimming World Cup thrilling action continues in Budapest"
''

''. 6 October 2021. Retrieved 8 October 2021. On 7 October, day one of competition, Chalmers was the only swimmer to swim sub-21 seconds in the 50 metre freestyle final, finishing in a time of 20.97 seconds to win the gold medal.

(7 October 2021)
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''

''. Retrieved 8 October 2021.Race, Retta (7 October 2021)
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''

''. Retrieved 8 October 2021. The next day, he swam a personal best time of 45.50 seconds in the 100 metre freestyle, touching the wall less than two seconds ahead of silver medalist Vladimir Morozov and bronze medalist

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and just four hundredths of a second away from the Oceanian record and Australian national record of 45.46 seconds set in 2009 by

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(8 October 2021)
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''

''. Retrieved 8 October 2021.Race, Retta (8 October 2021)
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''

''. Retrieved 8 October 2021.Binner, Andrew (8 October 2021)
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''

''. Retrieved 9 October 2021. His swim was the top-scoring result out all of the day's performances based on the scoring system used by FINA to assign point values to each swimmer's result for a given race, coming to a total of 963 points for his 45.50 seconds."No more blonde (almost white) hair, Chalmers blasts 45.50 in 100m free"
''

''. 8 October 2021. Retrieved 8 October 2021. In the prelims of the 200 metre freestyle on the third and final day of competition, Chalmers ranked first with a time of 1:43.62 and qualified for the final in the evening.

(9 October 2021)
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''

''. Retrieved 9 October 2021. Chalmers finished second in the final, touching in at 1:41.60 to win the silver medal.

(9 October 2021)
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''

''. Retrieved 9 October 2021.Dornan, Ben (9 October 2021)
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''

''. Retrieved 9 October 2021.

Stop 3: Doha

Continuing his World Cup quest, Chalmers was announced on 16 October by ''

'' as one of the headliner stars entered to compete in

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at the third World Cup stop starting on 21 October.Lohn, John (16 October 2021)
"Star-Powered Field On Tap As FINA World Cup Set For Move To Doha"
''

''. Retrieved 16 October 2021. For the stop, he decided to give the three sprint freestyle events a third go, entering to compete in the 50 metre freestyle, 100 metre freestyle, and 200 metre freestyle races.

(20 October 2021)
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''

''. Retrieved 20 October 2021. In the morning prelims heats of the 50 metre freestyle on day one of competition, Chalmers qualified for the final ranked second overall with a time of 21.26 seconds.

(21 October 2021)
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''

''. Retrieved 21 October 2021.Sutherland, James (21 October 2021)
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''

''. Retrieved 21 October 2021. He lowered his time from the prelims to a 21.02 in the final, fast enough to snatch up the silver medal in the race, while Vladimir Morozov won his first gold medal of the year's World Cup in 20.89 seconds.

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''. Retrieved 21 October 2021.Sutherland, James (21 October 2021)
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''

''. Retrieved 21 October 2021."New comers; new winners"
''

''. 22 October 2021. Retrieved 22 October 2021. The second day of competition, Chalmers swam his way to the final of the 100 metre freestyle with a time of 47.55 and an overall third place ranking in the morning prelims.

(22 October 2021)
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''

''. Retrieved 22 October 2021.Sutherland, James (22 October 2021)
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''

''. Retrieved 22 October 2021. In the evening he dropped over four tenths of a second off his previous best time, swimming a 45.03 and winning the gold medal.

(22 October 2021)
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''

''. Retrieved 22 October 2021.Sutherland, James (22 October 2021)
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''

''. Retrieved 22 October 2021. He finished over one second ahead of second place finisher Vladimir Morozov, who previously swam the second fastest time in history in 2018 with a time of 44.95 seconds.Byrnes, Liz (22 October 2021)
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''

''. Retrieved 22 October 2021.Keith, Braden (22 October 2021)
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''

''. Retrieved 22 October 2021. His time of 45.03 ranked as the third fastest swim in history, set new

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, and Australian national records in the event, and was less than one tenth of a second off the world record set by

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in 2008 at 44.94 seconds."Australia's Chalmers sets Australia record in 100 freestyle"
''

''. 22 October 2021. Retrieved 22 October 2021. The new records broke those set by Australian Matthew Abood approximately 12 years earlier at the 2009 FINA Swimming World Cup.Byrnes, Liz (22 October 2021)
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''

''. Retrieved 22 October 2021. Ahead of day three, Chalmers added an event to his competition schedule, the 50 metre butterfly to be contested the third day, and withdrew from competing in the 200 metre freestyle.

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''

''. Retrieved 22 October 2021.

(22 October 2021)
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''

''. Retrieved 22 October 2021. Come prelims time for the 50 metre butterfly on the third and final day of competition in Doha, Chalmers swam a 22.83, lowering his best time of 23.72 from 2016 by almost a second, and qualifying for the final ranked first by five hundredths of a second ahead of

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of the United States and Jesse Puts.

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''

''. Retrieved 23 October 2021.Keith, Braden (23 October 2021)
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''

''. Retrieved 23 October 2021. In the final, he bettered his own personal best time again with a time of 22.24 seconds, winning the silver medal and breaking the Oceanian and Australian records in the event set by

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at 22.28 seconds over 12 years earlier in August 2009.

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''. Retrieved 23 October 2021.Edmund, Emma (23 October 2021)
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''

''. Retrieved 23 October 2021.

Stop 4: Kazan

Leading up to the fourth and final stop of the World Cup circuit, held in

at the Palace of Water Sports, Chalmers was noted by FINA as someone to watch in the freestyle races, especially in competition against some of the home country competitors including Vladimir Morozov and

.Kamardina, Olga (25 October 2021)
"Final leg of the Swimming World Cup is ready to go in Kazan"
''

''. Retrieved 26 October 2021. Chalmers opened fast in the prelims heats on day one of competition, 28 October, swimming a 21.15 in the 50 metre freestyle to advance to the final ranked first, fastest, overall.

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''. Retrieved 28 October 2021. He set new Oceanian and Australian records in the final, as well as winning the gold medal, with his time of 20.68 seconds, lowering his own record in the event from 2019 and finishing just ahead of Vladimir Morozov, who swam a 20.81.

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''. Retrieved 28 October 2021.Race, Retta (28 October 2021)
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''. Retrieved 28 October 2021. The second morning of competition, Chalmers had another speedy start, finishing ranked first in the prelims heats of the 100 metre freestyle with a time of 46.74 seconds.

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''

''. Retrieved 29 October 2021.Race, Retta (29 October 2021)
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''

''. Retrieved 29 October 2021. In the final, he set a new

and World Cup record in the short course

with a time of 44.84 seconds, winning the gold medal and finishing over one second ahead of silver medalist Vladimir Morozov.

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''. Retrieved 29 October 2021.Sutherland, James (29 October 2021)
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''. Retrieved 29 October 2021.Munjal, Dhruv (29 October 2021)
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''. Retrieved 29 October 2021. With his new world record and his time of 45.03 from Doha, he claimed two of the four fastest swims in history in the event.De George, Matthew (29 October 2021)
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''. Retrieved 29 October 2021.Race, Retta (29 October 2021)
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''

''. Retrieved 29 October 2021. His time of 44.84 seconds lowered the former world record, set over a dozen years earlier in 2008 by

, by exactly one tenth of a second.Binner, Andrew (29 October 2021)
"Kyle Chalmers breaks 100m freestyle world record at FINA Swimming World Cup in Kazan"
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''. Retrieved 29 October 2021. It was the first world record set in the year's World Cup circuit.Kamardina, Olga (29 October 2021)
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''. Retrieved 29 October 2021. Going all-in on racing Vladimir Morozov on day three, Chalmers made it three-for-three by racing the Russian in the 50 metre butterfly, finishing with a time of 22.93 seconds in the prelims heats that ranked him sixth overall, just behind Vladimir Morozov who tied for fourth with a time of 22.87 seconds.

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''. Retrieved 30 October 2021. Wrapping up his competition for the stop and the circuit, he won the bronze medal in the final of the 50 metre butterfly with a time of 22.33 seconds, finishing 0.35 seconds ahead of Vladimir Morozov who placed fifth.

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''. Retrieved 30 October 2021.Race, Retta (30 October 2021)
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''. Retrieved 30 October 2021. The scores for his swims across all the stops of the 2021 World Cup circuit came to a total of 219.8 points, earning him fourth-place for overall points scored by a male competitor and finishing within eight points of the highest scoring male competitor."FINA Swimming World Cup: Men Individual Ranking 2021 - Rankings"
''

''. 30 October 2021. Retrieved 30 October 2021. He was fifth amongst male competitors in term of total medal count, winning a total of twelve medals, seven gold, four silver, and one bronze.Takata, Daniel (1 November 2021)
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''. Retrieved 1 November 2021.

2021 World Short Course Championships

In early November, Chalmers was announced as one of two Australians, and the only male Australian, entered to compete at the 2021 World Short Course Championships in

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in December.Hanson, Ian (6 November 2021)
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''

''. Retrieved 6 November 2021. Chalmers being announced as one of the two Australian team members for the World Championships ranked as number four for the ''

'' "The Week That Was" honour the week of 8 November 2021, three spots behind

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and Szebasztián Szabó of

who tied for number one after equalling the world record in the short course 50 metre breaststroke and 50 metre butterfly respectively.Rieder, David (8 November 2021)
"The Week That Was: Szabo, Shymanovich Tie World Records During Busy European Short Course Championships"
''

''. Retrieved 8 November 2021. Less than two weeks before the start of competition, Chalmers withdrew from the Championships due to an ongoing shoulder injury.Race, Retta (8 December 2021)
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''. Retrieved 8 December 2021.Rieder, David (8 December 2021)
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''. Retrieved 6 January 2022. The week of the start of the Championships, the week of 16 December, Chalmers underwent a successful surgery for his shoulder.Race, Retta (16 December 2021)
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''

''. Retrieved 6 January 2022.

2022

2022 Australian Swimming Championships

Chalmers pre-qualified for the

in the 100 metre freestyle, based on his silver medal-win in the 100 metre freestyle at the 2020 Summer Olympics, and entered to compete in the 50 metre butterfly and 100 metre butterfly at the selection meet for the Commonwealth Games, the

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in May.

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(October 2021)
"Athlete Nomination Criteria 2022 Commonwealth Games Team"
''

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''. Retrieved 24 May 2022."2022 Australian Swimming Championships Start List"
''

''. 2022. Retrieved 3 May 2022. On the first day of the 2022 Australian Championships, he swam a 52.10 in the prelims heats of the 100 metre butterfly to qualify for the final ranking third.Hy-Tek (19 May 2022)
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''. Retrieved 19 May 2022. In the evening final, he won the silver medal in the event with a time of 51.67 seconds, finishing less than two-tenths of a second behind Australian record holder in the event, Matthew Temple, and qualifying for the Commonwealth Games in the event."Cody Simpson: Australian pop star qualifies for Commonwealth Games"
''

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''. 18 May 2022. Retrieved 19 May 2022. Day two, he ranked first in the prelims heats of the 50 metre butterfly, qualifying for the final with a personal best time of 23.42 seconds, where he won the gold medal and national title with a personal best time of 23.21 seconds and qualified for the Commonwealth Games with the other top-three finishers, William Yang and

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. Chalmers was named to the team Australia rosters for both the

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and 2022 Commonwealth Games based on his times and place-finishes."Australian Dolphins named for World Championships and Commonwealth Games"
''

''. 22 May 2022. Retrieved 24 May 2022.

2022 World Aquatics Championships

At the 2022 World Aquatics Championships, held at

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in Budapest, Hungary starting in June, Chalmers helped qualify the 4×100 metre freestyle relay to the final with a preliminaries relay overall ranking of second.

(18 June 2022)
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''. Retrieved 18 June 2022. Splitting a 46.60 for the anchor leg of the relay in the final, he helped win the silver medal with a time of 3:10.80, narrowly out-splitting the second-fastest anchor leg swimmer in the final, Kristóf Milák of Hungary, by less than three-tenths of a second.

(18 June 2022)
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''. Retrieved 18 June 2022."Bronzo per Miressi nella 4x100 stile libero"
(in Italian). ''

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''. 18 June 2022. Retrieved 18 June 2022. In the preliminaries of the 100 metre butterfly, he placed 22nd with a time of 52.70 seconds, ranking two spots behind Youssef Ramadan of

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who swam a 52.42.

(23 June 2022)
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''. Retrieved 23 June 2022. On the second-to-last day of competition, he split a 46.98 for the second leg of the 4×100 metre mixed freestyle relay in the final to help win the gold medal with a

time of 3:19.38.

(24 June 2022)
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''. Retrieved 24 June 2022.

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''. Retrieved 24 June 2022. Splitting a 46.89 for the freestyle leg of the 4×100 metre medley relay in the final on the last day, he helped achieve a fourth-place finish in 3:31.81.

(25 June 2022)
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''. Retrieved 25 June 2022.

2022 Commonwealth Games

The following month, Chalmers ranked first in the preliminaries of the 50 metre butterfly on the first day of

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, advancing to the semifinals with a time of 23.45 seconds."Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games: Men's 50m Butterfly Heats Results Summary"
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''. 29 July 2022. Retrieved 29 July 2022. He placed tenth in the semifinals, not qualifying for the final with his time of 23.65 seconds."Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games: Men's 50m Butterfly Semi-Finals Results Summary"
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''. 29 July 2022. Retrieved 29 July 2022. Later in the same session, he won a gold medal in the 4×100 metre mixed freestyle relay, helping set a Games record of 3:21:18 in the final with a split time of 47.55 seconds for the second leg of the relay."Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games: Mixed 4x100m Freestyle Relay Final Results"
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''. 29 July 2022. Retrieved 29 July 2022. The following day, he won a gold medal in the 4×100 metre freestyle relay, anchoring the finals relay to a finish in a Games record time of 3:11.12 with a split time of 47.02 seconds."Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games: Men's 4x100m Freestyle Relay Final Results"
''

''. 30 July 2022. Retrieved 30 July 2022. Day three, Chalmers swam a 48.98 in the morning preliminaries of the

, qualifying for the semifinals ranking sixth."Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games: Men's 100m Freestyle Heats Results Summary"
''

''. 31 July 2022. Retrieved 31 July 2022. In the semifinals, he ranked first with a time of 47.36 seconds, breaking the Games record of 47.98 seconds set by

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in 2010, and qualifying for the final."Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games: Men's 100m Freestyle Semi-Finals Results Summary"
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''. 31 July 2022. Retrieved 31 July 2022. He won the gold medal the following evening, finishing in a time of 47.51 seconds and less than eight-tenths of a second ahead of silver medalist Tom Dean of

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and bronze medalist Duncan Scott of

."Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games: Men's 100m Freestyle Final Results"
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''. 1 August 2022. Retrieved 1 August 2022."Scottish swimmers win three more medals in the pool"
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(2 August 2022)
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''. Retrieved 7 September 2022. The final day, he split a 46.86 for the freestyle leg of the 4×100 metre medley relay in the final, helping win the silver medal with a time of 3:31.88."Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games: Men's 4x100m Medley Relay Final Results"
''

''. 3 August 2022. Retrieved 3 August 2022.

2022 Australian Short Course Championships

Later the same month, Chalmers won the gold medal in the 200 meter freestyle at the 2022 Australian Short Course Swimming Championships with a time of 1:40.98, sharing the podium with two Americans.Hy-Tek (24 August 2022)
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''. Retrieved 24 August 2022.Hanson, Ian (24 August 2022)
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''. Retrieved 24 August 2022. The following day, he won the 100 metre freestyle with an Australian All Comers record time of 45.55 seconds, finishing over one full second ahead of silver medalist

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of the United States. Two days later, he won the 50 metre freestyle in a time of 21.06 seconds, finishing 0.23 seconds ahead of silver medalist Justin Ress and 0.30 seconds ahead of fellow Australian and bronze medalist Grayson Bell.Hanson, Ian (27 August 2022)
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''. Retrieved 27 August 2022.

2022 Swimming World Cup

The first stop of the

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, held beginning 21 October in Berlin, Germany, Chalmers won a silver medal in the 50 metre freestyle on day one, behind gold medalist Dylan Carter of

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, and a gold medal in the 100 metre freestyle on day two, finishing 0.50 seconds ahead of silver medalist Maxime Grousset with a 45.88."Carter strikes gold in 50m 'free' at World Cup"
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''. 21 October 2022. Retrieved 22 October 2022."La hongkonesa Haughey lanza un serio aviso de cara a los Mundiales"
(in Spanish). ''

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''. 22 October 2022. Retrieved 22 October 2022. In his third event, he won the silver medal in the 200 metre freestyle, finishing in a time of 1:41.09, which was less than three-tenths of a second behind gold medalist

Matthew Sates Matthew Sates (born 28 July 2003) is a South African swimmer. He is the African record holder in the short course 200 metre freestyle, 400 metre freestyle, and 200 metre individual medley as well as the South African record holder in the 400 ...

.Isaacson, David (23 October 2022)
"Matthew Sates sinks Australian star to secure early World Cup lead"
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''. Retrieved 23 October 2022. He ranked fifth amongst male competitors at the first stop with a score of 53.4 points for all of his events."FINA Swimming World Cup 2022: Men Individual Rankings 2022"
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''. 2022. Retrieved 23 October 2022. On the first day of the second stop, in

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, Chalmers rounded out the podium with Dylan Carter (gold medalist) and

Brooks Curry Brooks Curry (born January 22, 2001) is an American competitive swimmer. He is an Olympian and a gold medalist in the 4×100-meter freestyle relay at the 2020 Summer Olympics. At the 2022 NCAA Championships, he won the NCAA title in the 50- ...

of the United States (silver medalist) in the 50 metre freestyle, winning the bronze medal with a time of 21.10 seconds.Seepersad, Roger (28 October 2022)
"THIS DYLAN'S ON FIRE"
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''. Retrieved 28 October 2022. The following evening, he won the gold medal in the 100 metre freestyle with a time of 45.52 seconds, sharing the podium with silver medalist

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and bronze medalist Brooks Curry.Ramnanansingh, Jonathan (29 October 2022)
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''. Retrieved 29 October 2022. Day three, he placed fourth in the final of the 50 metre butterfly with a time of 22.67 seconds.

(30 October 2022)
"FINA Swimming World Cup 2022: Toronto (CAN): Men's 50m Butterfly Final Results"
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''. Retrieved 17 November 2022. Day one of stop three of three, held in November in

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, United States, Chalmers won the silver medal in the 50 metre freestyle, finishing 0.09 seconds behind gold medalist Dylan Carter with a time of 20.81 seconds, which was 0.13 seconds slower than his personal best time of 20.68 seconds.Beckles, Jelani (3 November 2022)
"Carter wins 7th World Cup gold, breaks another TT record"
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''. Retrieved 3 November 2022. On day two, he won the gold medal in the 100 metre freestyle with a time of 45.55 seconds, which was 0.72 seconds faster than silver medalist Thomas Ceccon and 1.27 seconds faster than bronze medalist

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of the United States.

(4 November 2022)
"FINA Swimming World Cup 2022: Indianapolis (USA): Men's 100m Freestyle Final Results"
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''. Retrieved 4 November 2022. In the 200 metre freestyle on day three, he finished 0.19 seconds behind gold medalist

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of the United States to place fourth in 1:41.97.

(5 November 2022)
"FINA Swimming World Cup 2022: Indianapolis (USA): Men's 200m Freestyle Final Results"
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''. Retrieved 5 November 2022. His performances earned 152.1 points across all three World Cup stops, ranking him as the sixth overall highest-scoring male competitor for the 2022 circuit.

2022 World Short Course Championships

In September, following his performances at the 2022 Australian Short Course Championships, Chalmers was named to the Australia roster for the 2022 World Short Course Championships, which was held starting 13 December in

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."Dolphins Named For Home World Short Course Championships"
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''. 2 September 2022. Retrieved 2 September 2022. Day one of competition, he split a 44.98 for the anchor leg of the 4×100 metre freestyle relay in the final, which was 0.14 seconds off his individual world record time of 44.84 in the 100 metre freestyle from October 2021, and helped win the silver medal in an Oceanian, Commonwealth, and Australian record time of 3:04.63.

(13 December 2022)
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''. Retrieved 13 December 2022.Sullivan, Matthew (14 December 2022)
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''. Retrieved 14 December 2022. On the evening of day three, he won the gold medal in the

with a Championships record and Australian All Comers record time of 45.16 seconds, sharing the podium with silver medalist Maxime Grousset of France and bronze medalist

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of Italy.

(15 December 2022)
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''. Retrieved 15 December 2022.Pérez, Marta (15 December 2022)
"Enorme remontada de Le Clos en los 200 mariposa y Chalmers, campeón de los 100 libre"
(in Spanish). ''

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''. Retrieved 15 December 2022."Chalmers sets record, Haughey wins silver at FINA short-course championships"
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''. 15 December 2022. Retrieved 19 December 2022. A little over two hours later, he won a gold medal in the 4×50 metre freestyle relay, helping set new Oceanian, Commonwealth, Australian, and Australian All Comers records with his fellow finals relay teammates in a time of 1:23.44.

(15 December 2022)
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''. Retrieved 15 December 2022.Sullivan, Matthew (15 December 2022)
"'Are you serious?!: Kyle Chalmers wins gold, stuns world with 'outrageous' relay swim"
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''. Retrieved 15 December 2022. The fourth day of competition, Chalmers substituted for

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on the 4×50 metre mixed freestyle relay in the final, leading-off with a 20.97 to contribute to a silver medal-win with a time of 1:28.03, which registered as new Oceanian, Commonwealth, and Australian records.

(16 December 2022)
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''. Retrieved 16 December 2022. For his second relay of the evening, he contributed a time of 1:40.35 for the second leg of the 4×200 metre freestyle relay to help set new Oceanian, Commonwealth, and Australian records with a finals relay time of 6:46.54, which earned the relay the silver medal and was 0.27 seconds faster than the former world record of 6:46.81 from 2018.

(16 December 2022)
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''. Retrieved 16 December 2022.Pérez, Marta (16 December 2022)
a con doble tope en unos 4x200 libre con récord del mundo de Estados Unidos"">"España, 6^a con doble tope en unos 4x200 libre con récord del mundo de Estados Unidos"
(in Spanish). ''

''. Retrieved 20 December 2022. The following day, he contributed a 20.48 for the freestyle portion of the 4×50 metre medley relay in the final to help win the bronze medal with an Oceanian, Commonwealth, and Australian record time of 1:30.81.

(17 December 2022)
"16th FINA World Swimming Championships (25m) Melbourne (AUS): Men's 4x50m Medley Relay Final Results"
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''. Retrieved 17 December 2022. Later in the evening, he placed seventh in his seventh final, the 50 metre freestyle, with a time of 20.92 seconds, which was 0.03 seconds ahead of eighth-place finisher

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of Great Britain and 0.46 seconds behind first-place finisher Jordan Crooks of the

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(17 December 2022)
"16th FINA World Swimming Championships (25m) Melbourne (AUS): Men's 50m Freestyle Final Results"
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''. Retrieved 17 December 2022. On the sixth and final morning, Chalmers swam the freestyle leg of the 4×100 metre medley relay in the preliminaries in a time of 46.09 seconds, helping advance the relay to the final ranking fifth with a time of 3:25.02.

(18 December 2022)
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''. Retrieved 18 December 2022. Splitting a 44.63 for the freestyle leg in the evening final, he helped win the gold medal and set a suite of records with a final time of 3:18.98, which included a

, Championships record, Oceanian record, Commonwealth record, Australian record, and Australian All Comers record.

(18 December 2022)
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''. Retrieved 18 December 2022.Bungard, Matt (18 December 2022)
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''. Retrieved 18 December 2022.Pérez, Marta (18 December 2022)
"Los chicos de Australia y Estados Unidos comparten oro y récord del mundo en 4x100 estilos"
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''. Retrieved 19 December 2022.

International championships (50 m)

: Chalmers swam only in the preliminaries.

International championships (25 m)

Personal best times

Long course metres (50 m pool)

Short course metres (25 m pool)

Swimming World Cup circuits

The following medals Chalmers has won at

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circuits."Kyle Chalmers: Medals"
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''. Retrieved 9 July 2022.

World records

World junior records

Legend: h – heat; sf – semifinal

World records

Continental and national records

Long course metres (50 m pool)

Short course metres (25 m pool)

Recognition

*2016 – Australian Institute of Sport Performance Awards – Male Athlete of the Year and Best Sporting Moment *2016 –

Awards – Olympic Swimmer of the Year and Golden Moment *2016 – South Australian Sports Star of the Year *2016, 2018 – ''

'' Swammy Award – Oceania Male Swimmer of the YearRace, Retta (29 December 2016)
"2016 Swammy Awards: Oceania Male Swimmer of the Year"
''

''. Retrieved 8 October 2021.Carlson, Reid (1 January 2019)
"2018 Swammy Awards: Oceania Male Swimmer of the Year, Kyle Chalmers"
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''. Retrieved 8 October 2021. *2016 – ''SwimSwam'' Swammy Award – Junior Male Swimmer of the YearOrtegon, Karl (29 December 2016)
"2016 Swammy Awards: Junior Male Swimmer of the Year"
''

''. Retrieved 8 October 2021. *2019 – Swimming Australia Awards – Patron's AwardClark, Laine (25 November 2019)
"Teen sensation Ariarne Titmus named Swimming Australia's swimmer of the year"
''

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''. Retrieved 13 February 2022. *2019 – Australian Institute of Sport Awards – Finalist for Male Athlete of the Year"Thomas Kane & Chalmers Named as Finalists"
''

''. 26 November 2019. Retrieved 13 February 2022. *2021–2022 – ''SwimSwam'' – Top 100 (Men's): 2021 (#13),Anderson, Jared (4 February 2021)
"SwimSwam's Top 100 For 2021: Men's #20 — #11"
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''. Retrieved 11 October 2021. 2022 (#10)Sutherland, James (24 January 2022)
"SwimSwam's Top 100 For 2022: Men's #10-1"
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''. Retrieved 24 January 2022. *2021 – ''

'' – The Week That Was: 1 November 2021 (#1),Rieder, David (1 November 2021)
"The Week That Was: Chalmers Takes Down 13-Year-Old World Record"
''

''. Retrieved 1 November 2021. 8 November 2021 (#4) *2021 –

– Top 10 Moments: 2021 Swimming World Cup (#9)"Swimming World Cup: Top 10 Moments"
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''. 8 November 2021. Retrieved 8 November 2021.

References

External links

* * * * * *
Kyle Chalmers' page at agent W Sports & Media
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Background

2014–2015

2014 Oceania Championships

2014 Summer Youth Olympics

2015 World Aquatics Championships

2015 World Junior Championships

2016–2018

2016 Summer Olympics

2016 Swimming World Cup

2018 Commonwealth Games

2018 Pan Pacific Championships

2019–2021

2019 World Aquatics Championships

2020 Summer Olympics

2021 Swimming World Cup

Stop 1: Berlin

Stop 2: Budapest

Stop 3: Doha

Stop 4: Kazan

2021 World Short Course Championships

2022

2022 Australian Swimming Championships

2022 World Aquatics Championships

2022 Commonwealth Games

2022 Australian Short Course Championships

2022 Swimming World Cup

2022 World Short Course Championships

International championships (50 m)

International championships (25 m)

Personal best times

Long course metres (50 m pool)

Short course metres (25 m pool)

Swimming World Cup circuits

World records

World junior records

World records

Continental and national records

Long course metres (50 m pool)

Short course metres (25 m pool)

Recognition

See also

References

External links