Olympic history of Bermuda

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The Bermuda Olympic Association is the National Olympic Committee of Bermuda . It was founded in 1935 and recognized by the International Olympic Committee in 1936 .

The Olympic debut took place in 1936. Except for the boycotted games in Moscow in 1980, athletes were sent to all other summer games and from 1992 to winter games.

Overview

Summer games

In 1936 in Berlin five swimmers from Bermuda took part in the Olympic Games. Leonard Spence was the first Olympic athlete in Bermuda on August 8, 1936 in the 100 meter freestyle run. In 1948 in London track and field athletes and water divers took part for the first time. Bermudian women also made their Olympic debut in London. The first Olympians were on July 31, 1948 Phyllis Lightbourn-Jones and Phyllis Edness in the 100-meter run.

In 1956 in Melbourne, 1960 in Rome and 1964 in Tokyo, the Olympic teams consisted only of sailors. The Oleander XII took 5th place in the kite class in 1964. Boxing and rowing were added in 1972 for Bermuda. In 1976 in Montreal the Bermuda's first and so far only medal win could be celebrated. The boxer Clarence Hill won the bronze medal in the heavyweight division. Bermuda followed the US call for a boycott and stayed away from the 1980 Moscow Games.

In Los Angeles in 1984, Bermudian riders and cyclists took part for the first time. In the tornado class, the Bermudian boat took fifth place. In 1988 in Seoul, the first Bermudian tennis player took part. In Seoul, high jumper Nick Saunders reached the final and finished fifth. In 1992 in Barcelona it was the triple jumper Brian Wellman who achieved a top ranking with 5th place in the final. In 1996 in Atlanta he finished sixth.

In 2000 in Sydney the Bermudian boat took fourth place in the star boat class. In 2004 in Athens, a Bermuda triathlete competed for the first time. In London 2012, the long jumper Tyrone Smith qualified for the final, in which he was twelfth. In 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, triathlete Flora Duffy finished eighth.

Winter games

Bermudian winter sports enthusiasts have been represented at the Olympic Winter Games since 1992. Since that time, the Bermuda Olympic winter team has always consisted of one athlete. The first winter Olympic athlete was luge rider Simon Payne on February 9, 1992. A skeleton skier took part for the first time in Turin in 2006 and a cross-country skier in Vancouver in 2010.

Overview of the participants

Summer games

year	Athletes			Flag bearer	sports										Medals				rank
	total	Men	Women															Total
1896-1932	not participated
1936	5	5	0	Perez Sord	5
1948	12	10	2	Whitfield Hayward	5	6th	1
1952	6th	4th	2	Whitfield Hayward	2	2	2
1956	3	3	0					3
1960	9	9	0	Whitfield Hayward				9
1964	4th	4th	0	Whitfield Hayward				4th
1968	6th	6th	0	Whitfield Hayward	2			4th
1972	9	9	0	Kirk Cooper				7th	1	1
1976	16	15th	1		8th			6th	2								1	1	37
1980	not participated
1984	12	11	1	Nick Saunders	2	4th		3			3	1
1988	12	11	1	Nick Saunders	1	5		2	1			2	1
1992	20th	14th	6th	Brian Wellman	6th	4th		7th				3
1996	9	7th	2	Brian Wellman		3		4th			1	1
2000	6th	4th	2	Mary Jane Turnbridge	2	1		3				1
2004	10	5	5	Peter Bromby	1	1	1	5				1		1
2008	6th	2	4th	Jill Terciera	2	2						1		1
2012	8th	5	3	Zander Kirkland	1	2		2				1		2
2016	8th	4th	4th	Tyrone Smith	2	2		2		1				1
total															0	0	1	1	141

Winter games

The cross-country skier Tucker Murphy in Sochi 2014

year	Athletes			Flag bearer	sports			Medals			rank
	total	Men	Women
1924-1988	not participated
1992	1	1	0		1
1994	1	1	0	John Hoskins	1
1998	1	1	0	John Hoskins	1
2002	1	1	0	Patrick Singleton	1
2006	1	1	0	Patrick Singleton		1
2010	1	1	0	Tucker Murphy			1
2014	1	1	0	Tucker Murphy			1
2018	1	1	0	Tucker Murphy			1
total								0	0	0	-

Medalist

Gold medals

So far (as of 2017) no medal winners

Silver medals

So far (as of 2017) no medal winners

Bronze medals

Surname	Games	sport	discipline
Clarence Hill	1976 Montreal	Boxing	Heavyweight

Medals by sport

sport	gold	silver	bronze	total
Boxing	0	0	1	1
total	0	0	1	1

Web link

• Bermuda in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• Bermuda on Olympic.org  - The Official website of the Olympic movement (English)