Swimming at the Stanford University Invitational Grand Prix over the weekend for Barbados Martyn Forde broke his national mark of 23.30 for the 50 metre freestyle set last November with a preliminary swim of 23.17 but was just short of the Olympic B standard of 23.13 .His morning heats time had placed him 11th and he would return to swim in the B finals . In the evening finals he would again swim faster than his November standard and win the race but yet again miss the standard as he won in a time of 23.21.

Forde is locked in a tight battle with teammate Terence Haynes as to who will make the Olympic Qualifying times for the sprint freestyle (50 and 100 metre) events for the Beijing Games

Results can viewed at the following address
http://www.pasa-swim.org/SGP-2008-Results/index.htm