T&T’s Dylan Carter had a fourth placed finish in the men’s 100m freestyle C-final when the Arena Pro Swim Series concluded at the Jean K Freeman Aquatic Centre, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, on Saturday night.
Swimming from lane six, the 19-year-old Carter, a World Youth Olympic silver and bronze medal swimmer, raced home in 51.32 seconds in behind the trio of Bruno Ortiz (50.56), Stefan Milosevic (50.82) and Karl King who touched the wall in 50.98.
Others in the race included Michael Andrew (51.41), Giovanny Lima (51.56), Tom Kremer (51.65) and Danny Tucker (52.01).
A silver medal winner in the men’s 50m butterfly at the 2013 FINA World Junior Championship, Carter had earlier clocked 51.24 seconds for fifth spot in the 15th of 17 heats behind Marcelo Chierighini (49.08), Ryan Lochte (49.64), Geoff Cheah (50.32) and Ortiz (50.84) in the morning heats.
A day earlier, Carter was eighth in the men’s 100m backstroke B-final in 56.97 seconds behind Paul Le (55.78), record Olympic medal haul winner Michael Phelps (56.12), Daryl Turner (56.13), David Nolan (56.19), Bryce Bohman (56.48), James Wells (56.64) and Yuri Kisil (56.79)
In the heats on Friday morning, Carter (56.82) ended fifth in the seventh of nine men’s 100m backstroke heats to qualify for the B-Final in 13th spot.
And on Thursday, Carter, a University of Southern California All-American—who is sitting out of the coming NCAA season in order to prepare for next year’s Olympic Games in Brazil was seventh in the men’s 200m freestyle B-Final in one minute, 52.01 seconds.
This after he touched the wall in one minute, 50.84 seconds, an Olympic Qualifying standard time and the ninth best overall, which was ahead of Phelps’ 1:51.34 in his heat.
T&T’s other entrant at the meet, 2004 Athens Greece, Olympic bronze medallist George Bovell III had a best performance of fourth in the men’s 50m freestyle A-final in 22.44 seconds behind Olympic gold medalist Nathan Adrian (21.56), Canada’s Santo Condorelli (22.24) and Brad Tandy (22.27).
A two-time World Championship bronze medallist as well, the 32-year-old Bovell, a former five-time NCAA champion at Auburn Umniversity was fourth in the seventh of 13 heats in 22.81 seconds to trail the same trio of Adrian (22.39), Condorelli (22.44) and Tandy (22.66) to the wall.
On Saturday, Bovell ended his participation at the meet with a slow 59.19 clocking in the men’s 100m freestyle for eight spot and 119th overall.
On Thursday, Bovell III, competing in his first meet since the Pan American Games in Toronto, Canada, in July where he captured bronze in the men’s 50m freestyle final, was 39th overall in the men’s 100m breaststroke with a time of 1:05.56 minutes for seventh in heat.