T&T's Dy­lan Carter de­liv­ered his eighth gold medal of the FI­NA Swim­ming World Cup, a vic­to­ry in the 50-me­tre back­stroke on Fri­day to al­most con­firm him as king of the 50m events in the world.

For his tri­umph, Carter re­ceived a US$10,000 bonus for the sec­ond time in two days and 935 points, as he strolls to­ward the US$100,000 win­ner's cheque over­all.

Com­pet­ing in lane two of the fi­nal, 26-year-old Carter, who on­ly the day be­fore cel­e­brat­ed his gold-medal win in the 50m freestyle, was out in front when he en­tered the wa­ter at the start. And with the field rip­ping at his throat, Carter pro­duced a gut­sy dis­play in the dy­ing me­tres to claim the gold medal in a time of 22.72 sec­onds.

Ryan Mur­phy, rep­re­sent­ing the USA, stormed home for the sil­ver medal in a time of 22.99, swim­ming out of lane one, with Amer­i­ca's Justin Ress se­cur­ing the bronze medal af­ter post­ing a time of 23.07. An­oth­er Amer­i­can Cole­man Stew­art was fourth af­ter post­ing 23.13.

Ear­li­er in the qual­i­fiers, Carter was again a cut above the rest as he sprint­ed to the vic­to­ry in heat five at 23.40, to seal his en­try in­to the fi­nal. He was fol­lowed by sec­ond-place Gabriel Fan­toni of Brazil at 23.47 with Japan's Takeshi Kawamo­to seal­ing the fi­nal qual­i­fy­ing berth from the heat.

Last week, Carter won the gold medal in the event in the sec­ond leg of the World Cup Se­ries in Toron­to, Cana­da. Apart from win­ning the three 50m freestyle events for the se­ries, Carter has al­so won gold medals in the two 50m but­ter­fly events as well as the two 50m back­stroke events of the three legs.

How­ev­er, he placed lit­tle to no fo­cus on the longer 100m freestyle events, and yes­ter­day he failed to make it to the fi­nal, de­spite claim­ing the win in heat eight of the qual­i­fiers in 47.58 sec­onds.

His time proved to be not fast enough, with Brazil's Breno Cor­reia tak­ing sec­ond (47.63) and his coun­try­man Gabriel San­tos in third (47.78) - all fail­ing to progress to last night's fi­nal.

Mean­while, T&T's Aqeel Joseph did not make the qual­i­fy­ing marks in both the 50m back­stroke and the 100m freestyle.

Swim­ming out of lane sev­en in heat two of the 50m qual­i­fiers, Joseph re­turned home in the sixth po­si­tion, post­ing a time of 26.18in an event that was even­tu­al­ly won by Egypt's Youssef Ra­madan in 24.07. Ra­madan too did not make the qual­i­fy­ing time to qual­i­fy for the fi­nal.

Lat­er in the 100m freestyle, Joseph placed third in heat one in 51.37, to miss the fi­nal for a sec­ond time. The race was won by Vic­tor Al­co­ra of Brazil, who al­so failed to qual­i­fy for the ti­tle swim.