Barbados: The opening day of the second leg of the World Aquatics Swimming world Cup in Athens noticed a NR miss by Group TTO’s Dylan Carter. He threatened his NR within the 100 metre butterfly within the heats.
The Dexter Browne conditioned swimmer stroked his solution to splits of 24.23 and 28.18 . That gave him a complete time of 52.41.
The efficiency was simply off his 202 Tokyo Olympics nationwide normal of 52.36. Then he had splits of 24.53 and 27.83. That was his final aggressive outing within the occasion.
He didn’t contest the finals. No different CARIFTA or Caribbean area swimmer has damaged the 53 seconds barrier since that point.
The College of South California graduate is the quickest English talking swimmer of all from the area within the occasion .
The one different English talking swimmers to have damaged that barrier are fellow Olympic greats Bradley Ally of Group Barbados 52.73 (2009) and Shaune Fraser of Group Cayman Islands 52.96 (2011).
He’s the one swimmer to have executed it a number of instances. The Athens swim marked his eighth time underneath that mark. Within the absolute CARIFTA all time rankings Carter is second solely to Mehdy Metella the French Guianese star that represents France . Metella swam a time of fifty.85 (2019) that was solely eclipsed this 12 months because the French file.
Within the CCCAN area Carter is ranked fourth all time. The record is headed by Lightning Luis Martinez of Guatemala at 51.09 (2021). The subsequent two are the Mexican duo Lengthy Gutierrez 52.22 (2015) and Jorge Iga 52.39 (2023).
With the Athens Carter’s opening salvo within the occasion his lengthy anticipated sub 52 swim can’t be far-off. In that vary lays the 2024 Olympic B and A requirements of 51.93 and 51.67 respectively.