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The 25-year-old, who is coming off an impressive campaign in the third edition of the International Swimming League (ISL) by winning 23 medals will contest heat five, swimming in lane three. Meanwhile, Dylan Carter, the two-time Olympian will splash off his campaign in the 100m butterfly event from 2.23 am.
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Only recently, Blackman established a new personal best time of 4:09.15 but placed a distant seventh in heat two of the inaugural Junior Pan American Games in Cali, Colombia on November 26. That event will take place on Monday at 3.39 am (T&T time). Montenegro’s Ado Gargovic (3:59.93) and Ramazan Omarov of Kyrgyzstan (4:02.67) were fourth and fifth, respectively.īlackman, who represents Marlins Swim Club and was the 2020 T&T Olympic Committee's junior "Sportsman of the Year", will now have only the 1500m freestyle event to make amends at the championships. San Marino’s Loris Bianchi sealed the win in a time of 3:55.50 for a total of 732 points, finishing ahead of Moldova’s Pavel Alovatki, 3:55.55 in the second position with Joseph Rubio of Ecuador taking third with a 3:57.51-swim. The T&T swimmer, competing in heat two of the event at a temporary-constructed 25m short course pool at the Etihad Arena, was sixth in a time of four minutes and 03.35 seconds, for which he amassed a total of 663 points. T&T swimmer Nikoli Blackman failed to get past the first round in the men's 400 metres freestyle event of the 15th FINA World Swimming Championship in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (UAE) on Thursday.