Julian Forte - File

Upcoming sprinter Julian Forte has expressed his delight following a pair of windy performances in Sweden yesterday. Forte, a sports management student at the University of Technology, clocked 9.98s (3.0m/s) and 20.22s (3.1m/s) for second-place finishes behind Norway's Jaysuma Saidy Ndure.

In warm and windy conditions at the Sundsvall Wind Sprint, Ndure won the 100-metre dash after getting by Forte in the last 20 metres to win in 9.95s (w 3.0m/s). Andrew Fisher was third in 10.16s. In the 200m where the final positions were determined by times run over 10 heats, Forte won his heat but finished second overall to Ndure who also won his heat in 20.12 (2.1m/s). Adolphus Nevers was third best overall in 20.58.

"I am very pleased even though the times were not legal," Forte said, who believes his performances show him what he is capable of.

"That's how I look at it and I made some mistakes at the end of the race that took away from my time. "I didn't relax and hold my composure in the last 10 to 15 metres." The meet record of 10.18s was set in 2009 by Jamaica's Winston Barnes.

Despite those mistakes, however, the 20-year-old sprinter thinks he is getting better as the season wears on.

"I've been working on some technical aspects of my race, especially in the 100m and I am getting better each time I race," said the former 'Champs' standout for Wolmer's Boys.

Forte, who missed competing for a spot on Jamaica's contingent to the IAAF World Championships in Moscow this summer, said coach Stephen Francis pulled him out of the national championships because of injury concerns as he did not want to take the risk of "damaging the rest of my season." He returns to the MVP base camp in Italy today (Monday) where he will schedule the remainder of his season.

Another MVP sprinter Natasha Morrison won the women's 200m, with a time of 23.08s, over the USA's veteran sprinter Muna Lee and Moa Hjelmer. Carrie Russell was fourth in 23.44. Anneisha McLaughlin 22.64s holds the meet record that was set in 2010.