USA-based T&T swimmer, Dylan Carter will begin his campaign at the 18th FINA World Championship in Gwangju, Korea today.
The 23-year-old Carter, a former Youth Olympics silver and bronze medal winner, will compete in a very tough heat nine of ten n the men's 50m butterfly from lane three against Norway's Tomoe Hvas, Singapore Olympic champion Joseph Schooling, Japan's Naoki Mizunuma, Brazilian Nicholas Santos, USA's Michael Andrew, Belarus' Yauhen Tsurkin, South African Ryan Coetzee, Israel's Meiron Cheruti and Finland's Riku Poytakivi.
Among the starters in heat ten are Hungary's Laszlo Cseh, Ukraine's Andrii Govorov, Great Britain's Benjamin Proud and Italian Piero Codia.
The semifinals will take place later in the day.
Carter will also line up in the 100m freestyle heat 13 of 13 against Canada's Markus Thormeyer, Holland's Kyle Stolk, Japan's Katsumi Nakamura, Italian Alessandro Miressi, Australians Kyle Chalmers and Clyde Lewis, Croatian Bruno Balskovic, Brazilian Breno Correia and Morozov
And in the 50m freestyle, he swims in heat 11 of 14 alongside Kazakhstan's Alexandr Varaki, Serbia's Andrej Barna, Israel's Meiron Cheruti, Belgium's Pieter Timmers, Chinese Taipei, Chung-Feng Wu, Hong Kong's Ian Yentou Ho, Norwegian Niksa Stojkovski, New Zealand's Michael Pickett and India's Virdhawal.
In addition to Carter, a treble gold medal winner and silver medallist at last year's Central American and Caribbean (CAC) Games in Colombia, T&T is being represented by Cadell Lyons and Cherelle Thompson.
Lyons will go into action on Friday in the men's 100m butterfly in heat four of nine with St Lucian Jayhan Odlum-Smith, Costa Rican Bryan Alvarez, Georgian Teimuraz Kobakhidze, Alireza Yavari Foroushani, Jamaican Keanan Dols, Syrian Ayman Kelzi, Curacao's Seggio Bernardina, Qatari Yacob Al-Khulaifi and Guatemalan, Fernando Ponce.
And on Saturday, Thompson lines up in the women's 50m freestyle, heat seven of 11 with Lushavel Stickland, Emily Muteti, Lauren Hew, Chade Nersicio, Maddy Moore, Mariel Mencia, On Kei Lei, Naomi Ruele and Natalya Kritinina.
Last year, Carter, won a first-ever swim medal for T&T at the Commonwealth Games in Australia and following his outing in Korea, he will next compete at Pan American Games in Lima, Peru from July 26 to August 11, with next year's Olympic Games, in Tokyo, Japan his top priority.