Swimming under 21 seconds for the second leg of the 4×50 meter freestyle relay in the preliminaries on day three, Kibler helped qualify the relay to the final ranking second with a 1:24.07.FINA (December 15, 2022). "16th FINA World Swimming Championships (25m) Melbourne (AUS): Men's 4x50m Freestyle Heats Results Summary". Omega Timing. Retrieved December 15, 2022. Increasing his time to a 21.10 for the anchor leg of the relay in the final, he contributed to a final mark of 1:24.03 and overall fifth-place.FINA (December 15, 2022). "16th FINA World Swimming Championships (25m) Melbourne (AUS): Men's 4x50m Freestyle Final Results". Omega Timing. Retrieved December 15, 2022. Starting off fresh on day four, he anchored the 4×200 meter freestyle relay with a 1:41.97 in the preliminaries to help qualify the relay to the final ranking first in 6:53.63.FINA (December 16, 2022). "16th FINA World Swimming Championships (25m) Melbourne (AUS): Men's 4x200m Freestyle Heats Results Summary". Omega Timing. Retrieved December 16, 2022. On the finals relay, he lowered his anchor split time to a 1:41.16, helping win the gold medal in a world record-setting time of 6:44.12.FINA (December 16, 2022). "16th FINA World Swimming Championships (25m) Melbourne (AUS): Men's 4x200m Freestyle Final Results". Omega Timing. Retrieved December 16, 2022.Pérez, Marta (December 16, 2022). "España, 6a con doble tope en unos 4x200 libre con récord del mundo de Estados Unidos" (in Spanish). Mundo Deportivo. Retrieved December 20, 2022."Cuarto oro para Pallister y récords para Mac Neil, 4x50 francés y 4x200 EEUU" (in Spanish). Infobae. December 16, 2022. Retrieved December 17, 2022. In the preliminaries of the 200 metre freestyle, his second of two individual events, on day six of six, he qualified for the final ranking fourth with a personal best time of 1:41.88.FINA (December 18, 2022). "16th FINA World Swimming Championships (25m) Melbourne (AUS): Men's 200m Freestyle Heats Results Summary". Omega Timing. Retrieved December 18, 2022. In the second senior World Championships final of his career in an individual event, following the final of the 200 meter freestyle at the long course 2022 World Aquatics Championship, he placed fourth again, same as at the 2022 long course World Championships, this time with a personal best of 1:41.44, which was 1.72 seconds behind gold medalist Hwang Sun-woo of South Korea.FINA (December 18, 2022). "16th FINA World Swimming Championships (25m) Melbourne (AUS): Men's 200m Freestyle Final Results". Omega Timing. Retrieved December 18, 2022.Pérez, Marta (December 18, 2022). "Hwang gana los 200 libre y Le Clos y Fink cierran sus dobletes" (in Spanish). Mundo Deportivo. Retrieved December 24, 2022.
