T&T’s Dylan Carter Toko Olympics preparations continued when he placed fourth in the men’s 100m butterfly A-final on the opening day of the second stop of the 2021 Mare Nostrum Long Course Meet at the Centre de Natation Arlette Franco, Canet-en-Roussillon, France, yesterday.
Fresh of competing in the first-leg on the weekend, 25-year-old Carter touched the wall in 53.43 seconds to finish behind South African’s Chad Le Clos’ 52.29; Mehdy Metella’s 52.64 and Croatian Nikola Miljenic’s 53.22.
The other finishers in the A-final were Nicolas Vermorel (54.07), Dorian Pedro-Leal (54.38), Austrian Xaver Gschwentner (54.47), and Mexican Ascanio Fernandez Pinto Urbina who clocked 55.08.
In the morning heats, Le Clos was third in the 100 butterfly in 53.72 behind Mehdy (52.88) and Carter (53.03) while Vermorel (54.06) and Miljenic (54.49) were fourth and fifth fastest respectively.
Today (Wednesday), Carter will compete in his second event of the meet, the men’s 100m freestyle, in the third of five heats alongside Ramirez Briseno, Cesar Castro Valle, Nascimento Duarte, Osama Sahnoune, Sergio de Celis Garcia Castano and Mathias Even.
On Saturday last, at the opening Mare Nostrum Swim Meet at the Prince Albert II Swimming Pool in Monaco, Carter raced to the wall in the 100m freestyle event in a time of 49.98 for third spot behind French duo Maxime Grousset (48.28) and Charles Rihoux, silver in 49.44 while another Frenchman, Clement Mignon was fourth in 50.07.
In the heats, Carter was fourth fastest in 49.79 to trail Grousset (49.04), Mignon (49.29), and Rihoux (49.36).
However, on Sunday, in the 100m butterfly Carter ended in the tenth position in 54.87.