Trinidad and Tobago’s Dylan Carter on the 2016 Summer season Olympics in Brazil.
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Two-time Olympic swimmer Dylan Carter achieved an ‘A’ commonplace Olympic qualifying time within the males’s 50 metres freestyle when the Aquatics Sports activities Affiliation of T&T (ASATT) Invitational Swimming Championships on the Nationwide Aquatic Centre in Couva, Trinidad lately.
The 27-year-old, who opted out of the 100m freestyle and 50m butterfly on beforehand, clocked a time of 21.69 seconds because the lone competitor within the Time Trial ultimate to go beneath the ‘A’ commonplace qualification time for the Paris Olympics 2024 of 21.96 seconds.
Earlier this 12 months, Carter turned the primary T&T athlete to qualify for the 2024 Olympic Video games in Paris, France, when he splashed to gold within the males’s 100m freestyle occasion on the 2023 TYR Professional Swim Collection in Ft. Lauderdale, in a brand new nationwide file time of 48.24 seconds, erasing his personal earlier file, dipping under ‘A’ commonplace of 48.34.
Aside from Carter, the quartet of Alejandro Agard, Zachary Anthony, Darren Belfon and Raekwon Noel all received two gold medals every.
