Carter swims to 3rd gold in CAC Games

T&T swimmer, Dylan Carter swam to his third individual gold medal in record time when he won the men’s 50m freestyle at the Central American and Caribbean Games in Santo Domingo, El Salvador.

The 27-year-old ended with a second place finish in the 50m backstroke behind Bahamian Lamar Taylor who raced home in 21.87 seconds.

Prior to this win, two-time Olympian Carter swam to his second individual gold medal in the men’s 50m butterfly A-final in a new games record time of 23.32 seconds, to lower his gold medal-winning time of 23.50 in Barranquilla, Colombia, five years ago while becoming the first man to retain the title in the event.

Aruban Mikel Schreuders took the silver medal in 23.90 while Mexico’s Andres Dupont secured the bronze medal in 24.19.

Carter also won gold in the men’s 100 freestyle in a new meet record of 48.49 seconds to keep hold of his title while also bettering his 2018 winning time of 48.95 seconds from Barranquilla, Colombia.

And, on the following night, the 4×100 metres men’s freestyle relay quartet of Carter, Graham Chatoor, Nikoli Blackman, and Zarek Wilson picked up bronze in three minutes, 22.33 seconds, a new national record, to also repeat the feat of five years ago in Colombia when T&T quartet of Carter, Jabari Baptiste, David MC Leo’s, and Joshua Romany clocked 3:23.83.

Nigel Paul also earned another medal for T&T, a bronze when he was beaten in his men’s s +92 kg semifinal by Cuban, Fernando Arzola 5-0 at the El Salvador Ministry of Foreign Affairs Complex

Chatoor missed out on a medal in the men’s 400m freestyle A-final, fading from third to fourth spot over the final 50m in a time of four minutes, 00.41 seconds.