Australia’s world champion freestyler Kyle Chalmers is hinting at retirement after next year’s Olympic Games.
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The 25-year-old says the Paris Games will be his last Olympics.
“It probably will be the last Olympics, definitely, for me,” Chalmers told SEN radio on Wednesday.
Kyle Chalmers won gold in the men’s 100-metre freestyle at the world championshipsCredit: Getty Images
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Chalmers, who turns 26 before the Paris Olympics starting in July next year, won a long-coveted world championship 100-metre freestyle crown in Fukuoka, Japan, last month.
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“Even this year being in the (world championships) marshalling room, I was the oldest in the race,” he said.
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“The guys are 2003, 2004 born now.
“(World 100m freestyle record holder) David Popovici, the Romanian boy, has just turned 18; the Aussie boy Flynn Southam coming through, he’s just turned 18.
“(There are) a lot of young guys rolling through and I’m definitely the old man in the marshalling room now.
