Former Muschett High sprinter Mario Forsythe achieved one of his life long dreams of making a national team to a major global championship, after placing third in the men’s 200m finals at the JAAA/Supreme Ventures National Senior Trials at the National Stadium on Sunday.

Forsythe, who trains with the Racers Track club, finished behind Steve Mullings and Nickel Ashmeade in a personal best 20.36 seconds, just edging out a lunging Marvin Anderson who was fourth in 20.37 seconds.

These three will join defending champion and World Record holder Usain Bolt as the four men who will represent Jamaica in the 200m at the IAAF World Championships in Daegu in South Korea in late August.

Bolt, Mullings and Forsythe all share Trelawny roots.

Forsythe was thrilled with his place and told Observer West afterwards, “I am happy, I worked hard and I deserve this.”

Forsythe who was also a finalist in the 100m, has been running extensively in Europe for the past three seasons added that he was an athlete who needed to run a lot of races and would only get faster as the season progressed.

Forsythe was just one of several athletes with western Jamaica roots who had good results at the four day championships and who are expected to be selected to either the Central American and Caribbean Senior championships in mid-July, the World Championships in August or the Pan-American Senior Games in October.

Among them were women’s double sprint champion Veronica Campbell Brown, long jump champion Jovanee Jarrett, 400m hurdles champion Kaliese Spencer, Rose Marie Whyte, Shericka Williams and Davita Prendergast who were second, third and fourth respectively in the 400m; Lansford Spence, who was third in the men’s 400m, Vonette Dixon in the women’s 100m hurdles, Dexter Lee– who was sixth in the 100m final in his first Senior Championships — and Roxroy Cato who was third in the men’s 400m hurdles.