Chalmers, Kyle (1998-…), is a champion Australian swimmer. Chalmers has won nine Olympic medals. At the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Chalmers won a gold medal in the 100-meter freestyle event. At the age of 18, Chalmers became Australia’s youngest male Olympic swimming champion since Ian Thorpe in 2000. Chalmers also won bronze medals as a member of the Australian 400-meter freestyle and 400-meter medley relay teams.
Chalmers also won three medals at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan. The 2020 Summer Olympic Games were held in 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Chalmers won a silver medal in the 100-meter freestyle event and bronze medals as a member of the Australian 400-meter freestyle and 800-meter freestyle relay teams.
At the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, France, Chalmers won another three medals. He won silver medals in the 100-meter freestyle event and as a member of the Australian 400-meter freestyle relay team. He won a bronze medal as a member of the Australian 400-meter mixed medley relay team.
Before his Olympic success, Chalmers had been dominant at the junior level. He won seven medals at the FINA World Junior Swimming Championships in Singapore in 2015, including gold medals in the 50-meter freestyle and the 100-meter freestyle and as a member of the 400-meter freestyle relay team. FINA, the organization governing international competitive swimming, is now called World Aquatics.
Chalmers has also enjoyed success at the Commonwealth Games. He won four gold medals and one silver medal at the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Australia and three gold medals at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in England. Since 2015, Chalmers has won five gold medals, four silver medals, and three bronze medals at the World Aquatics Championships.
Chalmers was born on June 25, 1998, in Ashford, South Australia. Brett Chalmers, his father, was a star Australian Rules football player during the 1990’s. Kyle Chalmers graduated from Immanuel College, a secondary school in Adelaide, South Australia, in 2016. In 2017, Chalmers underwent successful heart surgery to correct an abnormal heartbeat. He returned to competitive swimming that October, winning the 100-meter freestyle at the Australian Short Course Championships.
