2019 AUSTRALIAN WORLD SWIMMING TRIALS
- Sunday, June 9th – Friday, June 14th
- Brisbane Aquatic Centre
- LCM
- Meet Site
- Swimming Australia 2019 World Championships – Selection Policy
- Day 1 Prelims Recap/Day 1 Finals Recap
- Day 2 Prelims Recap/Day 2 Finals Recap
- Day 3 Prelims Recap/Day 3 Finals Recap
- Day 4 Prelims Recap
- Live Results
- Live Stream
Taking back over the #1 swimmer in the world status in the men’s 100m free is Kyle Chalmers, the reigning Olympic champion in the event.
Competing on night 5 of the 2019 Aussie World Trials, the 20-year-old delivered big-time to rack up his 2nd World Championships qualifying event, hitting the wall in a massive 47.35 for gold.
His time overtakes his recent 47.48 thrown down at Aussie Nationals as his new career-fastest, displacing Russian Vladislav Grinev who had beaten out Chalmers’ previous PB in 47.48 just days later to take over the world rankings throne.
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 |
Splits for Chalmers tonight include a massive 23.13/24.22, keeping the Marion swimmer in the #4 slot among all-time Australians.
All-Time Aussie Men Performers in 100 Free:
47.04 Cameron McEvoy Adelaide 11.04.16
47.05 Eamon Sullivan Beijing 13.08.08
47.10 James Magnussen Adelaide 19.03.12
47.35 Kyle Chalmers TONIGHT
Chalmers’ 47.35 world-leading mark now also inserts the World Championships-bound athlete on the list of all-time top 10 performers in the event worldwide. His time makes him the #10 swimmer, ahead of Americans Michael Phelps, Nathan Adrian and Jason Lezak.
Is there problem with clock in Austraylia ? I dont think he can do that.
Australia’s top 10 weak events / least competitive events (imho) leading into Tokyo :
1. Women’s 100 breast
2. women’s 200 breast
3. men’s 100 breast
4. men’s 200 fly
5. men’s 400 IM
6. women’s 400 IM
7. women’s 200 IM
8. women’s 200 fly
9. men’s 50 free
10. men’s 100 fly
Still a long way to go before Tokyo (the US has a couple of times turned things around in a year), but that is an accurate list as things stand.
Agree on everything except for the W100 breast. I’d say the chances are better than in the W400 im
Isn’t this what the great Australian 100fr have been doing for the last 8ish years?
Throwing down amazing times at Aussie nationals/trials then not being able to do it again at the big show
McEvoy, Magnusson, hopefully not Chalmers
Hopefully not. Chalmers dropped a lot from trials and rio so I think he’ll be the same if not faster.
Yeah, Rio 2016 cough…
Yes, amazing how some forget. Magnusson lost by 0.01 second to a once in lifetime swim by Adrian. Still do not know what happened to McEvoy. However Chalmers is the Australian who is the CURRENT 100 Free champion, the fastest swimmer in the world.
I Know you mean men, but you can throw in Trickett and Campbell while you are there (sadly for this Australian).
It’s sport not a mass grave.
Magnussen took Olympic silver in 2012….not too shabby.
Chalmers is a top 5 male swimmer in the world, change my mind
We can’t because you are brainwashed. He can only medal in one event right now so I would say every swimmer that can medal in two events is better. So a one medal athlete would need to be extremely dominant in that event to be consider a top 5 athlete and we all know the only athlete that meets that criteria is Adam Peaty
Nathan Adrian only medal in 1 event in London & was regarded in top 5 swimmers. The 100 free is the blue riband, just like in Athletics, the winners only need to win 1 event. When you win the 100 free, which every person swims, you are 1 of the best.
I disagree, you could win the 100 free and have two other guys within .05 of you. If thesecond and third place swimmers in that scenario also medal in other races I’d give them the edge.
Haven’t you heard the 50 is the new 100. Proud might have a more dominant swim with a 21.05. Its all subjective and Chalmers could be top 5, I think he needs to race more outside of Australia to get there.
50 is the fastest starter not fastest swimmer.
Anthony Ervin would disagree…
Point exactly!!! Ervin is not the fastest swimmer. He’s a fast starter, goes flat out then dies. Great for 50s.
fastest starter – fastest person to 15m
fastest swimmer – who moves the fastest over the water (don’t confuse this with who can go fastest longest).
50 free final from Rio-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PAXVy0WViE
around the 4:20ish mark they’re starting. When Ervin hits 15m he’s in 5th by half a stroke, and by Ervin’s standards, Rio was a good start.
You obviously don’t mean the actual start from the blocks, because Ervin’s is terrible.
Maybe but its also the blue ribbon event to many people now.
Nathan Adrian was regarded in top 5 swimmers? Only in US perhaps.
Friendly reminder Chalmers is ranked 7th in the world in the 2free, only .3 off the #1. His trajectory puts him in a real realm of minor medaling.
Adam Peaty, Ryan Murphy, Chase Kalisz, Caeleb Dressel, Sun yang.
I would not put Murphy right now, 2016 Murphy yes, today Murphy no
I would go for rylov chupkov or Milak
U have not seen what Murphy is preparing for this summer as yet ….
Murphy swam 51.94 at Pan Pacs last year.
Yeah Rafael did not see that amazing swim apparently ….lol
I would have Chalmers ahead of all those swimmers, Peaty great swimmer, so dominant, but you can’t compare 100 Breast to 100 free. Murphy, great backstroker, but depth in 200 back not as high as depth in 200 free, Kalisz, medley swimmer, can be challenged by Larkin at worlds, no way in Australia is Larkin even close to Chalmers as a swimmer. Dressel has not beaten Chalmers, no Olympic gold individually, potentially better but not now, Sun Yang, only one with legit claims, let see in 200 free at worlds, but does have huge drug cloud hanging over him.
So in other words, Chalmers’ gold medal from 3 years ago and a world leading time a month before Worlds in one event trumps world records, world championship medals, and multiple event medal contenders? I’d say your criteria is more than a bit skewed
You forgot to mention gold medal & world leading time in the 100 freestyle. Next time you go to a swim meet, especially a junior, but even the seniors, see how many lineup for the 100 free, all the breaststrokers, backstrokers, butterflers, even the distance swimmers. Whereas the 100 free guy, just sticks with the best event.
The 100 free guy sticks with the 100 free because he sucks at everything else. That makes him the best swimmer?
Who is the best at athletics? Yes the 100 metres sprinter. People who don’t know athletics knows Bolt, they have no idea who won the 400 hurdles or the Pole vault or even the 800.
I can ignore your troll logic for the others, you’re rabid if you’re going to say he’s better than Peaty, the fastest 100 breastroker ever by over a second who has pretty much always had the top time in the world for the past 5 years. Chalmers would have to go 45 to even be close to that margin of excellence. Either you’re delusionally biased from Chalmers or towards freestylers, which is it?
People know Bolt for the same reason non-swimmers know Phelps…because their performances transcended their sport. People who don’t know swimming don’t know who Chalmers is…If you’re going to argue that people outside the sport knowing about them is key to who the best is, then Schooling is way better than Chalmers.
Missing the point, go back thru your Olympic history, Popov, Van den Hoogenband, Spitz, Weismuller, Duke Kahanamoku, Biondi all great swimmers who won the 100 free.
I have Larkin, Seto, Le Clos, Michael Andrew and Milak and maybe a couple Russians whose names I can’t spell all ranked ahead of Kyle right now. Thats in addition to the guys already mentioned.
Dream on man.
Just as context, Kyle had a heart operation last year….
That was in 2017 and the reason he skipped worlds that year.
Michael Andrew hasn’t won anything of note nor broken any world records and I’ll also be surprised if he wins any individual events at worlds.
haha yes i was teasing Robbos putting MA on the list. He probably overall has a lot of top 25 rankings in many events but I don’t think that is the formula to make the top 5 or 10 swimmers in the world. He will final a couple 50s and he could final the 100Breast so I don’t think he is that far out of the conversation if you value high placement in many different events.
Swimming is an easy sport, how do you get from here to there & back in the fastest possible way, Chalmers numero ono.
Won a world title in the 100 IM. Beat the crap out of Dressel last year.
How is Dressel not better than Chalmers. He is at the same level if not better in the 100 free. He is a favorite in the 50 free and is the overwheming favorite in the 100 fly.
You can’t possibly compare the 100 fly to the 100 free. Roobos has already clearly established that. Also, we’ve already logically proven that Peaty is also worse than Chalmers (because freestyle is inherently super to breaststroke) and Peaty is better at 100br than Dressel is at 100fl, ergo ipso facto Dressel is worse than Chalmers
I now wonder what these guys think of Simone Manual & where she stands in the women’s rank???? She is the current world & Olympic champion in the 100 free.
Who was faster at Pan Pacs? Campbell was and she is faster than Simone this year so far. So you have to go with Sjostrom, Campbell, Ledecky, King, Hozzsu. I would sub Ikee in for King if she didnt get sick. Second 5 Titmus, Ohashi, Manuel, Baker maybe Ruck
But she chokes. Simone doesn’t. You can ask Sarah if you don’t believe Cate.
He may be, but he’s not at present, Chalmers is 100 free Olympic gold medalist, he has beaten Dressel twice the 2 times they have met.
Swimmers who’ve ever served doping bans should be excluded.
what? no one mentioned efimova lol
Are you just gonna ignore Sun Yang’s ban in 2014?
I was looking at the women’s list, your comment makes more sense now.
No love for LeClos. 50-100-200 fly, 200 free.
I feel like Chalmers is going to try to swim this race 23.0/23.9 in July. Not sure if that’s a winning strategy in all that surf
The wake from others that are equally as fast or faster than him going out will be tough to come out of
Will we finally have all 47 on finals?
Dressel grinev Chalmers chiereghini Scott then we could have morozov correa timmers mehtella
Sure.
Is this the fastest back half of a 100 free in history? Only one I can think of that might be close is Phelps in Beijing leading off the relay.
He dropped .13 and he is still behind Dressels best. You guys are getting carried away with the Chalmers hype.
He’s also behind McEvoy’s best, so is Dressel but, continues to beat them both & has Olympic gold in the 100 free, where neither of them has & is also the youngest. There is a lot to like about the hype.
Dressel Olympics = 6th. Chalmers = 1st.
Dressel Worlds = 7 golds. Chalmers = 1 silver /s
Chalmers heart surgery 2017 . Unable to race at worlds .
Goodbye my good Dressel
But he did a 1:56 200 fly!!!
Which is a great time for a 21.1 and 47.1 free sprinter.
Whataboutism. Hasn’t been a 21.1 practically since Schooling was last good.
I’m going to laugh when he goes 21.0 or faster at worlds, and you have nothing to say.
Well, I nailed Pan Pac Trials and Pan Pacs last year, so we’ll see.
Keeping digging this hole
only in your wildest dreams …u forget who Dressel trains with i think …hahaha