Trinidad and Tobago’s Dylan Carter on the 2016 Summer season Olympics in Brazil.
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T&T’s Dylan Carter established two new freestyle meet information when the two-day Marka Petrusewicza Memorial Swim Meet concluded in Wroclaw, Poland.
The 27-year-old T&T swimmer set a brand new meet report within the males’s 50m freestyle when he received the gold medal swimming from lane six within the 25m pool in 20.89 seconds to raised the outdated report of 21.16 which was set by Poland’s Pawel Juraszek in 2021. Holland’s Kenzo Simons took silver in 21.10, and Konrad Czerniak, the bronze in 21.62.
The T&T ace additionally acquired a bronze medal within the males’s 100m Particular person Medley when he touched the wall in 54.52 seconds to complete behind Holland’s Casper Corbeau who received in a brand new meet report time of 52.62 to erase the outdated mark of 53.07 held by Kacper Majchrzak since October final yr, whereas house city swimmer Pawel Smolinski acquired silver in 54.52.
Carter, coming off a five-medal haul (three silver, and two bronze) received over the three legs of the simply concluded FINA World Aquatic Swimming Sequence in Berlins, Athens, and Hungary additionally received the extremely anticipated Skins Race, beating Simons within the two-man closing of the 25m race in a time of 9.78 seconds, to 9.97.
Within the first spherical of the Skins Race the highest 10 swimmers Simons received in 9.71 adopted by Carter (9.79), Chad Le Clos (9.94), and Proud in 10.04, whereas Dudys (10.05), Misiak (10.09), Czerniak (10.12), Ludwiczak (10.21), Szymon Rozycki (10.25), and Polewka (10.35) had been the opposite finishers.
The second spherical of the Skins Race noticed Carter precise revenge on Simons successful in 9.82 to his rivals’ 9.88 with Le Clos, third in 9.97, Ludwiczak (9.99), Czerniak (10.00), Proud (10.06), Misiak (10.20), and Dudys (10.24) to finish the highest eight.
Carter made sure of his place with victory in 9.74, simply forward of Proud who clocked 9.75, with Simons, third in 9.82, and Le Clos, fourth in 9.86, whereas Ludwiczak (10.08), and Czerniak (10.17) missed out.
Within the semifinal, Carter once more out-swam the sphere in 9.70 with Simons becoming a member of him within the two-man closing in 9.75 whereas Proud clocked 9.78, and Le Clos, 9.81.
Carter returned to the venue and threw down a brand new meet report within the 100m freestyle closing of 46.60 seconds, erasing the earlier customary of 46.84 posted by Holland’s Stan Pijnenburg in 2021.
Carter was greater than half a second away from Simons (47.36) and Dudys (47.41) within the closing, however nonetheless greater than half a second behind his personal T&T report of 46.02 from final November.
Subsequent up for Carter was the 50m backstroke, the place he needed to accept the bronze medal with a time of 23.77 seconds, to path Simone Stefani who took the gold medal in 23.49 along with his countryman Ralf Tribuntsov, taking the silver medal in 23.58.
Carter went on to win the fiveround, 25-meter skins occasion on the finish of the session, prevailing with occasions of 10.29, 9.78, and 12.80 in his final three swims.
Within the first spherical of the Skins Race, Corbeau received in 11.82 with Smolinski (12.34), Ludwiczak (12.57), Kacper Maksajda (12.69), and Carter (12.94) rounding off the highest 5.
Within the second spherical of the Skins Race, Ludwiczak surged to the highest spot in 11.47 with Carter, the second greatest in 11.53, Rozycki, third in 11.84, Krystian Czeszewski, fourth in 11.89, and Mikolaj Popiel, fifth in 11.90.
From then on it was all Carter as he received Spherical Three in 10.29 properly forward of Ludwiczak (10.69), Smolinksi (10.74), and Czeszewski (10.97) who all certified for the four-man semifinals.
And within the semifinals, Carter was once more the quickest to the wall in 9.78 to beat Ludwiczak (10.11) into the second spot forward of their finals conflict whereas Smolinski (10.44), and Czeszewski (10.68) had been third and fourth respectively. The ultimate of the Skins Race was a becoming finish to the boys’s
