GOLD FOR STRAYA: Kyle Chalmers Brings It Home In The 100m Freestyle

It’s Day 5 of the Rio Olympic Games, and Australia’s medal tally was seemingly kind of stalling.

But NOT ANYMORE.
A bumper evening in the pool has seen 18-year-old phenom Kyle Chalmers blitz the field and bring home the Gold in the men’s 100m freestyle.
Chalmers, the son of Port Adelaide Magpies great and former AFL player Brett Chalmers, hauled the field in over the closing stages of the race to pip Pieter Timmers of Belgium, and America’s Nathan Adrian.
The win is even more remarkable given that Chalmers, swimming from lane 5, turned at the 50m mark in 7th place, yet somehow managed to storm home in a time that shaved a full half-second of his own personal best.
The win is Australia’s first Olympic Gold Medal in the men’s 100 free since Mike Wendon achieved the feat at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics.
Meanwhile in the women’s competition, Madeline Groves hauled in Australia’s first silver medal of the games in the 200m butterfly, being pipped for gold by Mireia Belmonte Garcia of Spain by just 3 one-hundredths of a second.
Australia now jumps back up to fourth on the overall medal tally, ahead of Hungary, and trailing China, the United States, and Japan.
BLOODY GO YOU GOOD THINGS YOU BEAUTY.

Photo: Clive Rose/Getty.

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