{"id":411835,"date":"2020-01-21T02:02:37","date_gmt":"2020-01-21T09:02:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=411835"},"modified":"2020-01-21T20:13:40","modified_gmt":"2020-01-22T03:13:40","slug":"kyle-chalmers-kick-starts-his-olympic-100m-freestyle-defence-in-47-99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/kyle-chalmers-kick-starts-his-olympic-100m-freestyle-defence-in-47-99\/","title":{"rendered":"Kyle Chalmers kick starts his Olympic 100m freestyle defence in 47.99"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Olympic champion <strong>Kyle Chalmers<\/strong> has kick started his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/kyle-chalmers-downs-100-free-world-junior-record-takes-home-olympic-gold\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Olympic defence<\/a> in style\u2013 winning his specialist 100m freestyle in the fastest time of the year so far \u2013 47.99 at the South Australian State Championships tonight.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_399855\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-399855\" data-attachment-id=\"399855\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/atherton-wr-peaty-pounces-chalmers-is-king-of-skins-at-london-roars-isl-banquet-in-budapest\/kylechalmers\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/KyleChalmers.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"722,405\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Kyle Chalmers\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Kyle Chalmers&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;The London Roar capped their win in Budapest with Kyle Chalmers prevailing in the men&#8217;s 50 free Skins event.&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/KyleChalmers-700x405.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/KyleChalmers.jpg\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-399855\" src=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/KyleChalmers-700x405.jpg\" alt=\"ISL: Kyle Chalmers\" width=\"700\" height=\"405\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-399855\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">PUMPED: Kyle Chalmers all smiles. Photo: Courtesy ISL.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The year maybe only three weeks old but the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsports.com\/video\/event\/2019-world-swimming-championships\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">21-year-old<\/a> \u201cBig Tuna\u201d from Port Lincoln has set the early pace in the countdown to this year\u2019s Tokyo Olympics.<\/p>\n<p>Out in 23.05, Chalmers, who has already swum the 200m butterfly, 400m freestyle and a PB last night in the 50m butterfly, showed all his power and finesse in the most impressive swim of the night.<\/p>\n<p>He served notice in the morning preliminaries with his 48.50 and there was an air of expectation in the SA Aquatic and Leisure Centre \u2013 and Chalmers delivered in spades.<\/p>\n<p>His time topped Beijing Fina Champions winner <strong>Vladimir Morozov\u2019s<\/strong> (RUS) who won in 48.32.<\/p>\n<p>The women\u2019s 200m freestyle saw Marion\u2019s <strong>Madi Wilson<\/strong> clock the fastest time of the night with her impressive 1:57.09 with USC Spartans trio <strong>Mikkayla Sheridan<\/strong> (1:58.66), 100\/200m backstroke star <strong>Kaylee McKeown<\/strong> adding another string her bow in 1:58.82 and Rio Olympian <strong>Leah Neale<\/strong> (1:59.88).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Olympic champion Kyle Chalmers has kick started his Olympic defence in style\u2013 winning his specialist 100m freestyle in the fastest time of the year so far \u2013 47.99 at the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7938,"featured_media":411836,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[51047,34442,35730,120573,41043,26559],"class_list":["post-411835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-world","tag-kaylee-mckeown","tag-kyle-chalmers","tag-leah-neale","tag-maddie-wilson","tag-mikkayla-sheridan","tag-vladimir-morozov"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.3 (Yoast SEO v24.3) - 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