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2025 BERGEN SWIM FESTIVAL
- Friday, April 4th – Sunday, April 6th
- Ado Arena, Bergen, Norway
- LCM (50m)
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26-year-old Kyle Chalmers is having a series of tremendous performances at the 2025 Bergen Swim Festival.
Racing in the home nation of fiance Ingeborg Løyning, Chalmers already ripped a 47.27 scorcher to take gold in the men’s 100m free. That beat two of his three Olympic medal-earning performances.
Tonight, Chalmers took on the 50m free, where the father-to-be crushed a new lifetime best of 21.78 to handily defeat the field.
After clocking a morning swim of 22.31 to claim the 2nd seed, Chalmers entered entirely new territory to register only the second sub-22 second time of his already-prolific career.
Sean Niewold of the Netherlands clocked 22.07 as the runner-up this evening while bronze went to Bjørnar Grytnes Laskerud of the host nation who touched in 22.23.
Entering this competition, Chalmers’ PB stood at the 21.98 notched at last year’s Australian Open Championships.
Earlier this year at the South Australian State Open Championships, Chalmers was near that outing, hitting 22.01.
Chalmers now ranks 4th in the world. Additionally, the ace checks in as Australia’s 8th-swiftest performer in history.
2024-2025 LCM Men 50 Free
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21.66
| 2 | Cameron McEvoy | AUS | 21.70 | 12/01 |
| 3 | Ben PROUD | GBR | 21.73 | 03/15 |
| 4 | Andrej Barna | SRB | 21.82 | 03/16 |
| 5 | Vladyslav Bukhov | UKR | 21.97 | 12/13 |
In terms of active Australian swimmers, Olympic champion Cam McEvoy still reigns supreme in the 50m free event, owning the national record in 21.06.
Additional domestic contenders for this summer’s Trials include Isaac Cooper, Jamie Jack, Thomas Nowakowski and Ben Armbruster.
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