Top Trinidad and To­ba­go ju­nior swim­mer Dy­lan Carter closed off his Nan­jing 2014 Youth Olympic Games cam­paign with his sec­ond medal when he won sil­ver in the Men's 50m but­ter­fly, yes­ter­day.

Carter sped to a new PR of 23.81 in a race he lead for 49 me­tres.

Af­ter an­oth­er great start, Carter held a quar­ter body-length lead over Chi­na's Hex­in You, the man who won the Men's 50m free in world ju­nior record time on Wednes­day, at the 15 me­tre mark.

But Yu clawed back in­to the two-man con­test with every stroke and was clos­ing at the wall when Carter lunged for the fin­ish.

Yu, who had 19 min­utes ear­li­er com­pet­ed in the Men's 100m free semi­fi­nal and suc­cess­ful­ly ad­vanced to to­day's fi­nal, timed his fi­nal stroke bet­ter and won in 23.69 sec­onds to Carter's 23.81.

Carter's sil­ver fol­lowed on his bronze from the day be­fore in the Men's 50m free.

His team­mate John­nya Fer­di­nand placed 30th in the Women's 50m free event in a time of 27.31.

The swim­mers in­clud­ing David Mc Leod have now con­clud­ed their com­pet­i­tive par­tic­i­pa­tion at YOG.

In ath­let­ics, both An­duwelle Wright (men's long jump-6.92me­tres) and Chelsea James (women's shot putt-15.15 m) fin­ished in ninth place and will con­test the B fi­nals of their event Sun­day.

In beach vol­ley­ball, the T&T team of Chel­si Ward and Ma­li­ka David­son went un­der 2-0 to Chi­na (21-4, 21-14) and will have to de­feat Bo­livia to­day to ad­vance to the round of 24.

And in sail­ing, TT's Abi­gail Af­foo's progress was stymied again by the lack of wind as there were no races at Jin­niu Lake yes­ter­day. Weath­er per­mit­ting, Af­foo will race to­day.

Pres­i­dent of the T&T Olympic Com­mit­tee, Bri­an Lewis, con­grat­u­lat­ed Carter on his per­for­mance, not­ing that the tal­ent­ed youth had a bright fu­ture.

"He's con­tin­ued to show le­git­i­mate and re­al tal­ent. It's a great achieve­ment com­ing on the back of his gold medal at the World Ju­nior Cham­pi­onships last year and his reach­ing the fi­nals of the Com­mon­wealth Games last month. He def­i­nite­ly has a bright fu­ture."

Lewis al­so com­mend­ed Carter's par­ents Ever­ard and Tra­cy as well as his coach Franz Hug­gins.

"When­ev­er an ath­lete medals at a big event there are lots of peo­ple work­ing be­hind the scenes in his sup­port net­work who de­serve cred­it."

He added that Carter was among a new gen­er­a­tion of promis­ing ath­letes for whom he had big ex­pec­ta­tions.

"The ob­jec­tive we have set is for T&T to win ten Olympic gold medals in 2024. The tal­ent and po­ten­tial is there and it's up to the TTOC, the Min­istry of Sports and the Na­tion­al Sport­ing Or­gan­i­sa­tions to col­lab­o­rate to en­sure that the in­fra­struc­ture and sys­tems are in place to give ath­letes every­thing they need to per­form at their best."