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Olympic Champion Kyle Chalmers Shaves Half A Second Off His 100 Free WJR
- Updated: October 25, 2016
Olympic champion Kyle Chalmers lowered his own World junior record when he pipped Vladimir Morozov 46.12 to 46.15 to take the 100m freestyle on the first of two days of racing at the short-course World Cup in Tokyo today.
The Australian teenager who stormed past men of greater experience and pre-race speed in Rio for Olympic glory back in August, had set the junior standard, in this first season of such things in the short-course pool, at 46.61 in Singapore last weekend. More significant that the record today was the race: out in 22.10, Chalmers lagged Morozov’s 21.94 but turned tables on the US-based Russian 24.02 to 24.21 over the last two laps.
Third place went to the winner’s tour teammate Tommaso D’Orsogna, on 46.91. Morozov was back in action later, his 50.55 in the 100m medley shy of his 50.30 world record but registered as a 1006-point swim because FINA fails to update its points system after each passing meet in order to provide accurate and up-to-date performance ratings.
In other action, performance highlights were topped by 950-plus point victories for Alia Atkinson (JAM), on 1:02.91 in …
