Barry Forde

Barry Forde comes from a family keen on cycling. At age ten he began to ride BMX racing. In this discipline, 1992, he was Barbadian and Caribbean champion. At the same time he began to drive on the track. Here are two gold medals in the sprint and keirin had his first big success in the so-called "B" Track World Championships 1996. In addition, Forde repeatedly Barbadian champion in the sprint. 2001 Forde first in the sprint at the Pan American Championships in Medellin. At the Pan American Games in Santo Domingo in 2003, this success he again succeeded.

Barry Forde participated in the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens and took part in the sprint sixth place. 2005 Forde vice-champion in the keirin at the Track World Championships in Los Angeles, after he became in 2003 a third party in this discipline at the World Championships in Stuttgart. At the Pan American Championships in the same year in Mar del Plata he won the Keirin, as in the sprint.

In October 2005, Forde was tested positive for testosterone and banned for two years. Already in 2003, during an inspection during the " Pan Am games" he had been tested positive for the banned substance ephedrine.

Barry Forde, who had license No. 1 of his native Cycling Union, coached for a time in Berlin at Emanuel Raasch. His father is Colin Recardo Forde, in Mexico City, the individual pursuit and the road race contested at the Olympic Games in 1968. Since 2010, Barry Forde trained preferably in Australia with Gary Neiwand.

After renewed doping allegations against receivables were collected in September 2010, he declared in March 2011 his retirement from active power cycling.