1968 Summer Olympics / Participant (Bermuda)

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Bermuda participated in the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico Mexico City with a delegation of six male athletes in four competitions in two sports part. The youngest athlete was sailor Jay Hooper (24 years and 290 days), the oldest athlete was Kirk Cooper (36 years and 79 days).

It was Bermuda’s seventh participation in the Summer Olympics .

Participants by sport

athletics

400 m

• Anthony Harper

  Prelims : in run 5 (rank 7) with 49.1 s (hand-stopped) or 49.18 s (electronic) not qualified for the quarter finals

1500 m

• Jeff Payne

  Preliminary runs : in run 4 (rank 11) with 4: 18.9 minutes (hand-stopped) or 4: 18.92 minutes (electronic) not qualified for the semi-finals

sailing

Dragons

• Results

  Final: 100.0 (net) or 124.0 (total) points, 13th place

  Race one: 15.0 points, ninth place

  Race two: 20.0 points, 14th place

  Race three: 16.0 points, tenth place

  Race four: 13.0 points, seventh place

  Race five: 16.0 points, tenth place

  Race six: 20.0 points, 14th place

  Race seven: 24.0 points, 18th place

• team

  Richard Belvin

  Edmund Cooper

  Eugene Simmons

Finn dinghy

• Jay Hooper

  Final: 167.0 (net) or 209.0 (total) points, place 24

  Race one: 26.0 points, 20th place

  Race one: 19.0 points, 13th place

  Race one: 28.0 points, 22nd place

  Race one: 29.0 points, 23rd place

  Race one: 23.0 points, 17th place

  Race one: 42.0 points, not finished

  Race one: 42.0 points, not finished

Web links

• Bermuda Olympic Team 1968 in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )