1960 Summer Olympics / Participant (Bahamas)

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The Bahamas participated in the 1960 Summer Olympics in the Italian capital, Rome, with a delegation of 13 male athletes in eight competitions in two sports.

The youngest athlete was the track and field athlete Hugh Bullard (18 years and 172 days), the oldest athlete was the sailor Roy Ramsay (47 years and 336 days). It was the country’s third Summer Olympics participation .

Participants by sport

athletics

• Hugh Bullard
  • 400 meter run

  Round one: eliminated in run three (sixth place), 51.1 seconds (hand-stopped), 51.20 seconds (automatically stopped)

• Tom Robinson
  • 100 meter run

  Round one: qualified for the quarter-finals in run five (rank one), 10.5 seconds (hand-stopped), 10.68 seconds (automatically stopped)

  Quarter-finals: qualified for the semifinals in run one (second place), 10.6 seconds (hand-stopped), 10.76 seconds (automatically stopped)

  Semi-finals: eliminated in race one (fifth place), 10.5 seconds (hand-stopped), 10.69 seconds (automatically stopped)

  • 200 meter run

  Round one: qualified for the quarterfinals in run seven (second place), 21.4 seconds (hand-stopped), 21.56 seconds (automatically stopped)

  Quarter-finals: qualified for the semifinals in run one (third place), 21.2 seconds (hand-stopped), 21.32 seconds (automatically stopped)

  Semi-finals: eliminated in race one (fifth place), 21.5 seconds (hand-stopped), 21.67 seconds (automatically stopped)

sailing

5.5 mR class

• Results

  Final: 3,024 points, eighth place

  Race one: 535 points, 2:56:30 hours, seventh place

  Race two: 266 points, 2:43:59 hours, 13th place

  Race three: 338 points, 2:35:43 hours, eleventh place

  Race four: 204 points, 2:53:04 hours, 15th place

  Race five: 602 points, 2:26:02 hours, sixth place

  Race six: 1,079 points, 2:17:22 hours, second place

  Race seven: 204 points, 2:26:18 hours, 15th place

• team

  Basil Kelly

  Roy Ramsay

  Bobby Symonette

Dragons

• Results

  Final: 2,159 points, 18th place

  Race one: 277 points, 3:44:56, 18th place

  Race two: 210 points, 2:10:30, 21st place

  Race three: 302 points, 2:55:36, 17th place

  Race four: 302 points, 3:10:26, 17th place

  Race five: 629 points, 2:37:26, eighth place

  Race six: 418 points, 2:32:27, 13th place

  Race seven: 231 points, 2:42:30, 20th place

• team

  Godfrey Kelly

  Maurice Kelly

  Percy Knowles

Flying Dutchman

• Results

  Final: 1,499 points, rank 25

  Race one: 416 points, 2:34:52 hours, 15th place

  Race two: 101 points, race not finished (DNF)

  Race three: 194 points, 2:23:18 hours, 25th place

  Race four: 250 points, 2:51:42 hours, 22nd place

  Race five: 177 points, 2:24:36 hours, 26th place

  Race six: 250 points, 2:26:31 hours, 22nd place

  Race seven: 212 points, 2:20:27 hours, 24th place

• team

  Godfrey Lightbourn

  Sigmund Pritchard

star

• Results

  Final: 5,282 points, sixth place

  Race one: 475 points, 2:49:27 hours, eleventh place

  Race two: 1,516 points, 2:28:46 hours, first place

  Race three: 1,039 points, 2:22:01 hours, third place

  Race four: 370 points, 2:52:59 hours, 14th place

  Race five: 475 points, 2:32:58 hours, eleventh place

  Race six: 1,039 points, 2:31:29 hours, third place

  Race seven: 738 points, 2:24:47 hours, sixth place

• team

  Sloane Farrington

  Durward Knowles

singles

• Kenneth Albury
  • Finn dinghy

  Final: 5,092 points, eighth place

  Race one: 566 points, 1:50:38 hours, twelfth place

  Race two: 183 points, 2:10:59 hours, 29th place

  Race three: 604 points, 1:43:25 hours, eleventh place

  Race four: 946 points, 2:15:37 hours, fifth place

  Race five: 1,645 points, 1:52:15 hours, first place

  Race six: 800 points, 1:52:32 hours, seventh place

  Race seven: 531 points, 1:53:45 hours, 13th place

Web links

• Bahamian Olympic team 1960 in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )