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On the final day of the 2022 Short Course World Championships, 100 freestyle champion Kyle Chalmers scratched the 200 free to focus on the men’s 4×100 medley relay at the end of the last prelims session in Melbourne, Australia.
It marks the first scratch of the week for the 24-year-old Australian sprint star. Chalmers has already achieved his main goal of the meet: adding a short-course 100 free title to his impressive career resume. He’s seeking to add a seventh medal to his haul tonight.
Yesterday, Chalmers took bronze swimming the freestyle anchor on Australian men’s 4×50 medley relay team behind the United States and new world record holder Italy.
His 100 free victory earlier this week came in a Championship-record time of 45.16.
Without Chalmers in the 200 free prelims, Great Britain’s Tom Dean led the way with a 1:40.98 while reigning world champion Hwang Sunwoo snuck into tonight’s final as the eighth seed. Olympic finalist Kieran Smith missed the final as the ninth qualifier just a tenth of a second behind Sunwoo.
MEN’S 200 FREE – PRELIMS
- World Record: 1:39.37 – Paul Biedermann (GER), 2009
- World Junior Record: 1:40.65 – Matt Sates (RSA), 2021
- Championship Record: 1:40.95 – Danas Rapsys (LTU), 2018
- 2021 Champion: 1:41.60, Hwang Sunwoo (KOR)
Top 8:
- Tom Dean (GBR) – 1:40.98
- Katsuhiro Matsumoto (JPN) – 1:41.29
- Maxime Grousset (FRA) – 1:41.79
- Drew Kibler (USA) – 1:41.88
- Danas Rapsys (LTU) – 1:42.21
- David Popovici (ROU) – 1:42.31
- Tommy Neill (AUS) – 1:42.38
- Hwang Sunwoo (KOR) – 1:42.54
Australians put relays first and individuals second. Opposite w American’s
I think Americans just know how to win medals swimming both .. Aussies are a little more fragile it seems
It’s actually rare for an Australian to scratch an individual in favour of a relay.
Agree fully. This meet with:
is frankly an outlier. GBR, whilst scratching a lot of relays at this meet, were notable in Tokyo by withdrawing key swimmers from individual events to prioritise certain relays. AUS has no real previous history in recent times of doing so.
Or maybe Chalmers swimming the 200 does more harm than good when it’s clearly an off event for him? Lol
Well, he split 1:40.3 on the AUS relay, so it is not THAT foreign to Chalmers.
He just had the fastest relay split in history in this ‘off’ event.