T&T’s Cadell Lyons and Dylan Carter will be the lone local swimmers competing at the 14th FINA World Short Course Swimming Championship which splashes off today in Hangzhou, China at the International Expo Centre.
Lyons, 26, will be the first one in action as he lines up in the first of five heats in the men’s 100m backstroke.
Lyons, the new national record holder in the event with the best time of 54.36 seconds will swim from lane two against Moldova’s Ali Imaan, Burundi’s Omar Alrowaila, Cook Islands’ Mark Bede Aitu, Nicaragua’s Espinoza Barberena, Qatar’s Abdullaziz Al-Obaidly, Albania’s Joel Gjini, Moldova’s HM Rasdonojatovo and Turkministan’s Merdan Atayev.
Tomorrow, the 22-year-old Carter will face the starter from lane three in the fifth of seven men’s 200m freestyle heats.
He will face off with Chinese Taipie’s Yao-Ting An, Turkey’s Erge Can Gezmis, Serbian Vellmir Stjepanovic, South African Chad Le Clos, Brazilian Altamis Luiz Melo, Australian Alexander Graham, China’s Keyuan Shang, Austrian Alexander and Thailand’s James Andrew Dibgy.
Two years ago, Carter was a fourth-placed finisher in the men’s 200m freestyle final and was a silver medal winner in the 50m butterfly at the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Australia.