Kyle Lee

2022 World Aquatics Championships Following his performances in January and February 2022, Lee was named to the 2022 World Aquatics Championships open water team for Australia in the 5 kilometre open water swim. The second day of open water swimming competition at the Championships, 27 June in Budapest, Hungary, he finished in eighth-place in the 5 kilometre open water swim with a time of 54:28.2, which was 6.2 seconds behind seventh-place finisher Dávid Betlehem of Hungary. Three days later, he placed fifth in the 25 kilometre open water swim with a time of 5:02:48.5, finishing 27.0 seconds after gold medalist Dario Verani of Italy.

2022 Marathon Swim World Series At the second stop of the 2022 FINA Marathon Swim World Series, held at Parc de la Villette in Paris, France, Lee started off with a twenty-eighth-place finish in the 10 kilometre open water swim with a time of 1:52:49.37 on 9 July. The following and final day, he won a silver medal as part of the 4×1500 metre open water relay, helping finish second behind the relay team from Italy in a time of 1:08:03.35. The medal marked his first achieved at a world-level senior competition. At the competition, with open water swimming conducted at Bondi Beach, he anchored the 4×800 metre open water relay to a first-place finish. Finishing the World Series in November at the final stop, held in Eilat, Israel, he won another silver medal in the 4×1500 metre open water relay, swimming the third leg of the relay in 16:13.80 to contribute to the final time of 1:06:36.60. The second of two days, he improved upon his twenty-eighth place in the 10 kilometre open water swim from Paris, this time finishing in a time of 1:46:59.80 to place fifteenth.

2023 At the 2023 Australian Open Water Championships in January, Lee won the 5 kilometre open water swim, finishing 0.06 seconds ahead of second-place finisher Nicholas Sloman with a time of 55:20.90. In mid-February, he defended his title at the 28th Busselton Jetty Swim, this time winning in 38:48.6, which set a new event record. On 24 March, he was named to the Swimming Australia roster for the 2023 World Aquatics Championships in the 5 kilometre open water swim. At the 2023 Australian Swimming Trials in June, he placed fifth in the 800 metre freestyle with a time of 8:00.32.

International championships

Marathon Swim World Series circuits The following medals Lee has won at Marathon Swim World Series circuits.

Edition Individual Relay Total Gold Silver Bronze Gold Silver Bronze 2022 0 0 0 0 2 0 2 Total 0 0 0 0 2 0 2

Awards and honours Western Australia (WA) Open Water Swimmer of the Year, Shelley Taylor-Smith medal: 2021