Swim­mer Dy­lan Carter splashed to the bronze medal in the fi­nal of the men’s 50-me­tre back­stroke event, on day two of the 2025 World Aquat­ics Swim­ming World Cup in Carmel, In­di­ana, Unit­ed States, on Sat­ur­day (Oc­to­ber 11).

It was the per­fect come­back from the missed chance in the 50-me­tre freestyle fi­nal a day ago, in which he placed a dis­ap­point­ing fourth.

Carter en­tered the pool in lane four, but made im­me­di­ate strides from a 0.52 re­ac­tion time, which proved to be the fastest on the night, be­fore he touched the wall in a time of 23.00 sec­onds. The re­sult earned him 888 points as he turned his fo­cus on the 50-me­tre but­ter­fly Sun­day (Oc­to­ber 12), start­ing with the heats this morn­ing.

The race was won by Hun­gary’s Hu­bert Kos, who, de­spite a re­ac­tion time of 0.56, was quick to the fin­ish for the gold medal in 22.65 sec­onds. Ralf Tri­buntsov of Es­to­nia se­cured the run­ner-up sil­ver medal in 22.91 sec­onds.

Ear­li­er, Carter splashed to the fi­nal from heat three, claim­ing the top spot in a time of 22.92 sec­onds, which fol­lowed as a re­ac­tion time of 0.52. The lanky T&T swim­mer al­so ben­e­fit­ed from a to­tal of 897 points for his achieve­ment.

Carter, who com­pet­ed at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in the 100m freestyle, as well as at the FI­NA Short Course World Cham­pi­onships, where he made the fi­nal in the 200m freestyle and fin­ished fourth, was one of just two swim­mers to have qual­i­fied out of the heat.

His close ri­val and com­peti­tor, Jack Alexy of the Unit­ed States, claimed the oth­er qual­i­fy­ing berth by fin­ish­ing in the sec­ond po­si­tion in 23.52 sec­onds. His fin­ish fol­lowed a re­ac­tion time of 0.60, which al­so earned him 830 points.

Mean­while, Loren­zo Mo­ra sealed the third-place spot for Italy as he splashed to a time of 23.82 sec­onds, but it was not enough to book him a place in the fi­nal. Aus­tralia’s Enoch Robb al­so missed out on a fi­nal spot with his time of 23.93 sec­onds.