SWIM WORLDS: THOMPSON MAKES A SPLASH IN 100 FREE

FROM PAGE 12 the championships. She competed in the 200m medley where she was 24th overall in 2:25.36.

Thompson also got to team up with the three other members of Team Bahamas as they contested the mixed 4 x 100m medley relay, placing seventh in their heat for 24th overall in 4:03.98, led by Lamar Taylor’s national record breaking feat on the first leg in the backstroke in 55.03. The other two members of the team were Davante Carey and Rhanishka Gibbs.

Individually, Taylor got some spotlight when he won his heat of the men’s 50m butterfly, but had to settle for 40th overall.

He still has two more events to go as he competes in the 50m free today in lane one in the ninth of 13 heats and the 50m backstroke in lane nine in the sixth of seven heats.

Meanwhile, 21-year-old Carey competed in the 100m backstroke where he was 47th overall in 57.50, an improvement on his time of 58.51 that he posted at the Bahamas Aquatics’ Swimming Nationals.