Martyn Forde rewrites Barbados record books

The Barbados swimming records were rewritten this time by the sprint freestyle swimmer of Martyn Forde at the Bell Grand Prix swim meet in Toronto. This meet had a format whereby heats were swum over short course meters and the finals over long course meters. Martyn Forde (Toronto SwimClub) broke his own national standard in the 50 meter freestyle over 25 meters when he clocked 22.78 bettering the 22.90 Canadian Interuniversity Sport championships in 2006 over Quebec. He then returned to snap his own long course record clocking 23.30 to better the 23.32 he set this July in Alberta ,Canada to finish fourth in the championship finals. The time is just off the Olympic B qualifying time of 23.13. Teammate  Terence Haynes clocked 22.97 in the heats and 23.61 to finish sixth.

    Forde continued his record breaking form in the 100 freestyle when he smashed 2 time Olympian Damian Alleyne's mark of 50.89 with a time of 50.58  .Haynes was close to taking the record for himself when stopped the clock in 50.64. In the B Finals Haynes came just short of beating his national record of 51.48 when he finished the 2 lap sprint in 51.94 for 3rd Forde placed 6th in 53.22.

    The Bajan duo placed 4th in the 400 meter freestyle relay (50 meter format) Haynes led off the Toronto swim Club A team in 52.95 while Forde anchored in 53.64 for a total time of 3:28.05