Julian Forte (born 7 January 1993)Julian Forte

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. Retrieved on 2014-05-26. is a

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er. His personal bests are 9.91 seconds for the

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and 19.97 seconds for the

200 metres The 200 metres, or 200-meter dash, is a sprint running event. On an outdoor 400 metre racetrack, the race begins on the curve and ends on the home straight, so a combination of techniques is needed to successfully run the race. A slightl ...

. Originally a horizontal jumps specialist, he won the

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and

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titles at the

2009 CARIFTA Games The 38th CARIFTA Games was held in the George Odlum National Stadium in Vieux Fort, Saint Lucia, on April 10–13, 2009. Detailed reports on the results were given. Participation (unofficial) Detailed result lists can be found on ...

. 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 The 2012 World Junior Championships in Athletics was an international athletics competition for athletes qualifying as juniors (born 1993 or later) which was held at the Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, on 10–15 ...

. He won his first senior medal at the

2014 IAAF World Relays The 2014 IAAF World Relays were held in May 2014 in Nassau, Bahamas. The event was the first edition of the IAAF World Relays. There were five events for each gender. In men's and women's 4 x 100 metres and 4 x 400 metres, the event served as a ...

, taking gold with the Jamaican 4×100 metres relay team.

Career

Early life and high school

Born in

Saint Andrew Parish, Jamaica Saint Andrew is a parish, situated in the southeast of Jamaica in the county of Surrey. It lies north, west and east of Kingston, and stretches into the Blue Mountains. In the 2011 census, it had 573,369, the highest population of any of th ...

, he first began running at Vaz Preparatory School in

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. Encouraged by his school coach, and inspired by the feats of Michael Johnson, he continued to focus on sprinting.Spotlight on Julian Forte
Nevada Morgan . Retrieved on 2014-05-26. Forte also competed in the

and in 2008 set a personal best of and came third at the Jamaican High School Championships.Julian Forte
Tilastopaja. Retrieved on 2014-05-26. His first international competition came at the

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, where he was eighth in the long jump and third in the

. 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

and 21.93 seconds for the

. At the

he won the gold medal in the long jump, clearing , as well as the triple jump with . 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

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. He came sixth over 200 m at the

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, one place behind his older compatriot Kemar Bailey-Cole. He was disappointed not to be selected for the

2010 Summer Youth Olympics The 2010 Summer Youth Olympics ( ta, 2010 கோடைக்கால இளையோர் ஒலிம்பிக் விளையாட்டுக்கள் ms, Sukan Olimpik Belia Musim Panas 2010), officially known as the I Summer ...

, but won a silver medal for Jamaica in the 4×100 metres relay at the

2010 Central American and Caribbean Junior Championships The 18th Central American and Caribbean Junior Championships were held in the Estadio Olímpico Félix Sánchez in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, between 2–4 July 2011, and organized by the Federación Dominicana de Asociaciones de Atletis ...

. He ended 2010 with sprint bests of 10.49 seconds for the 100 m and 21.04 seconds for the 200 m. He did not perform well in 2011, placing outside the top five at the high school champs sprint events. 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

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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

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meeting at the

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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 The Athletics Bridge ( sk, Atletický Most) is an annual track and field meeting which takes place at the Mestský štadión in Dubnica nad Váhom, Slovakia. As one of the European Athletics Outdoor Classic Meetings, it is typically among of the ...

, which he followed with another win at the Palio Citta della Quercia. He opened 2014 with a

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best of 47.18 seconds, before improving his 100 m time to 10.03 seconds. This performance gained him selection for the

– 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.Report: Men’s 4x100m – Nassau 2014
IAAF (2014-05-26). Retrieved on 2014-05-26.

Personal bests

– 9.91 seconds (2017) *

– 19.97 seconds (2016) *

– 47.18 seconds (2014) *

Long jump The long jump is a track and field event in which athletes combine speed, strength and agility in an attempt to leap as far as possible from a takeoff point. Along with the triple jump, the two events that measure jumping for distance as a gr ...

– *

Triple jump The triple jump, sometimes referred to as the hop, step and jump or the hop, skip and jump, is a track and field event, similar to the long jump. As a group, the two events are referred to as the "horizontal jumps". The competitor runs down t ...

–

International competition record

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Forte, Julian Living people 1993 births People from Saint Andrew Parish, Jamaica Jamaican male sprinters Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Jamaica Athletes (track and field) at the 2014 Commonwealth Games World Athletics Championships athletes for Jamaica Athletes (track and field) at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes of Jamaica Commonwealth Games medallists in athletics Athletes (track and field) at the 2019 Pan American Games Pan American Games competitors for Jamaica Athletes (track and field) at the 2020 Summer Olympics Medallists at the 2014 Commonwealth Games