Julian Forte

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Julian Forte
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Julian Forte (born 7 January 1993) [1] is a Jamaican track and field sprinter. His personal bests are 9.91 seconds for the 100 metres and 19.97 seconds for the 200 metres.

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Originally a horizontal jumps specialist, he won the long jump and triple jump titles at the 2009 CARIFTA Games. He took the sprint double at the 2010 Jamaican High School Championships and went on to be a 200 m finalist at the 2012 World Junior Championships in Athletics. He won his first senior medal at the 2014 IAAF World Relays, taking gold with the Jamaican 4×100 metres relay team.

Career

Early life and high school

Born in Saint Andrew Parish, Jamaica, he first began running at Vaz Preparatory School in Kingston. Encouraged by his school coach, and inspired by the feats of Michael Johnson, he continued to focus on sprinting. [2] Forte also competed in the long jump and in 2008 set a personal best of 6.90 m (22 ft 7+1⁄2 in) and came third at the Jamaican High School Championships. [3] His first international competition came at the 2008 CARIFTA Games, where he was eighth in the long jump and third in the triple jump. [4] He attended Wolmer's Boys' High School and in 2009, at the age of sixteen, he set personal bests of 10.75 seconds for the 100 metres and 21.93 seconds for the 200 metres. [3] At the 2009 CARIFTA Games he won the gold medal in the long jump, clearing 7.25 m (23 ft 9+1⁄4 in), as well as the triple jump with 14.77 m (48 ft 5+1⁄4 in). [5] [6]

The following year he changed his focus to the sprints. He took the 100 m and 200 m titles at the Jamaican High School Championships, helping Wolmer's to the team title, and vowed to stay training in Jamaica in the hope of emulating Usain Bolt. [7] He came sixth over 200 m at the 2010 CARIFTA Games, one place behind his older compatriot Kemar Bailey-Cole. [8] He was disappointed not to be selected for the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics, [2] but won a silver medal for Jamaica in the 4×100 metres relay at the 2010 Central American and Caribbean Junior Championships. [9] He ended 2010 with sprint bests of 10.49 seconds for the 100 m and 21.04 seconds for the 200 m. [1] He did not perform well in 2011, placing outside the top five at the high school champs sprint events. [10] [11] In his last year as a junior athlete he ran personal bests of 10.19 seconds for the 100 m and 20.38 seconds for the 200 m. Over 200 m he won the national junior title, placed sixth at the Jamaican Athletics Championships, and came eighth at the 2012 World Junior Championships in Athletics. [3]

Senior competition

Continuing with his studies he enrolled at University of Technology, Jamaica, taking advantage of the institution's sports facilities. In his first outing of 2013, he ran a personal best of 10.13 m to win in Kingston. He experienced his first IAAF Diamond League meeting at the British Grand Prix in June, although he placed last. In Sundsvall, Sweden he dipped under ten seconds with a wind-assisted time of 9.98 seconds. A personal best of 10.12 seconds came during a win at the Athletics Bridge, which he followed with another win at the Palio Citta della Quercia. [3] He opened 2014 with a 400 metres best of 47.18 seconds, before improving his 100 m time to 10.03 seconds. [12] This performance gained him selection for the 2014 IAAF World Relays – the debut edition of the competition. He ran the third leg to help Jamaica to a world-leading 37.71 seconds in the heats and then the gold medal in the final. [13]

Personal bests

International competition record

YearCompetitionVenuePositionEventNotes
2008 CARIFTA Games (U-17) Basseterre, Saint Kitts and Nevis 8thLong jump
2008 CARIFTA Games (U-17) Basseterre, Saint Kitts and Nevis 3rdTriple jump
2009 CARIFTA Games (U-17) Vieux Fort, Saint Lucia 1stLong jump
2009 CARIFTA Games (U-17) Vieux Fort, Saint Lucia 1stTriple jump
2010 CARIFTA Games (U-20) George Town, Cayman Islands 6th200 metres
2010 CARIFTA Games (U-20) George Town, Cayman Islands 1st4×100 m relay
2010 Central American and Caribbean Junior Championships (U-20) Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic2nd4×100 m relay
2012 World Junior Championships Barcelona, Spain8th 200 metres
2014 IAAF World Relays Nassau, Bahamas 1st 4×100 m relay
2015 World Championships Beijing, China 23rd (h)200 m 20.57
2017 World Championships London, United Kingdom 11th (sf)100 m 10.13
—4×100 m relay DNF

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  2. 1 2 Spotlight on Julian Forte. Nevada Morgan . Retrieved on 2014-05-26.
  3. 1 2 3 4 Julian Forte. Tilastopaja. Retrieved on 2014-05-26.
  4. ↑ 2008 CARIFTA Games. World Junior Athletics History. Retrieved on 2014-05-26.
  5. ↑ Youngsters sweep sprint relays in Carifta gold rush Archived 28 May 2014 at the Wayback Machine . Jamaica Gleaner (2009-04-14). Retrieved on 2014-05-26.
  6. ↑ 2009 CARIFTA Games. World Junior Athletics History. Retrieved on 2014-05-26.
  7. ↑ Leonard, Tom (2010-05-14). The young runners of Jamaica's 'sprint factory' in action. The Daily Telegraph . Retrieved on 2014-05-26.
  8. ↑ CARIFTA Games 2010. World Junior Athletics History. Retrieved on 2014-05-26.
  9. ↑ 2010 CAC Junior Championships. World Junior Athletics History. Retrieved on 2014-05-26.
  10. ↑ 2011 Champs Boy's 200 m final Archived 28 May 2014 at the Wayback Machine . Champs. Retrieved on 2014-05-26.
  11. ↑ 2011 Champs Boy's 100 m final Archived 27 May 2014 at the Wayback Machine . Champs. Retrieved on 2014-05-26.
  12. ↑ Walker, Howard (2014-05-19). Forte blasts 10.03secs at 2nd JAAA All Comers Meet Archived 27 May 2014 at the Wayback Machine . Jamaica Observer . Retrieved on 2014-05-26.
  13. ↑ Report: Men’s 4x100m – Nassau 2014. IAAF (2014-05-26). Retrieved on 2014-05-26.
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