Kyle Chalmers is about to become a first-time dad.
The Australian swimmer, 26, took to Instagram on Wednesday to reveal that he and his fiancée, Norwegian swimmer Ingeborg Løyning, 24, are expecting their first child together.
In the Instagram post, the happy couple were all smiles as they held a sonogram of their daughter-to-be while rocking matching white t-shirts and ‘mom’ and ‘dad’ caps.
‘We can’t wait to welcome our little Norwegian princess into the world later this year,’ they captioned the post.
The couple, who announced their engagement in June last year, were inundated with messages from friends, family and fans in the comment section.
Aussie Olympic swimmers Mollie O’Callaghan, Kai Taylor, Shayna Jack and Kiah Melverton were amongst the well-wishers, as well as AFL WAG Kellie Finlayson and Olympic runner Jessica Stenson.
Kyle Chalmers is about to become a first-time dad. The Australian swimmer, 26, took to Instagram on Wednesday to reveal that he and his fiancée, Norwegian swimmer Ingeborg Løyning, 24, are expecting their first child together. Both pictured
‘We can’t wait to welcome our little Norwegian princess into the world later this year,’ they captioned the post
‘OMG congratulations!!!’ Shayna commented. ‘So happy for you both. You’ll make incredible parents.’
‘Congrats brother, super happy for you both,’ Kai wrote.
The couple’s exciting news comes after Chalmers revealed he almost quit swimming amid the infamous love triangle saga that rocked the Australian team in 2022.
Chalmers was in the eye of a media storm over his involvement in a love triangle with ex-girlfriend Emma McKeon and fellow swimmer Cody Simpson.
Chalmers and McKeon briefly dated in 2021.
McKeon and Simpson later went ‘Instagram official’ with their relationship in July 2022, three months after they began dating in secret.
Chalmers’ world championships backflip – in which he U-turned on his decision to skip Budapest, thereby denying Simpson a place on the team – resulted in allegations that his call was not purely based on swimming.
The story did not go away during the Commonwealth Games, where all three swimmers competed for Australia in Birmingham, and Chalmers says he spent the hours leading up to his 100m freestyle race crying in his hotel room.
The couple, who announced their engagement in June last year, were inundated with messages from friends, family and fans in the comment section
Chalmers was in the eye of a media storm over his involvement in a love triangle with ex-girlfriend Emma McKeon and fellow swimmer Cody Simpson (both pictured)
‘It is a sport that I love.’ he told A Current Affair. ‘But I was in a very, very dark place.
‘Reflecting on that. I was asking myself ‘why am I actually doing this? Why?’
‘I think rock bottom, was probably, like, alone at the Commonwealth Games.
;Just being in my room completely preparing for the final, I was crying in my room.
‘We’re in a university so a pretty old sort of building. What am I, what am I here for?’
Chalmers previously revealed that he had written a retirement statement in the midst of his struggles, and wanted to play local footy in Australia instead.
‘It was very, very stressful,’ Chalmers told the Soda Room podcast.
‘I was going to say, now I’m done – I’m going to stay in Port Lincoln now and play country footy.’
He added that any suggestion that he kept Simpson out of the team for Budapest was ‘absolute c**p’ but it wasn’t until the Commonwealth Games where he reached an all-time low.
‘We just broke the Commonwealth record and we won gold … and they’ve just teed off,’ he says.
‘Not one question about swimming … It was all complete nonsense, this so-called feud. There was no feud whatsoever.’
