Bahamas at the 2000 Summer Olympics

Bahamas at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Flag of the Bahamas
IOC code	BAH
NOC	Bahamas Olympic Committee
Website	www.bahamasolympiccommittee.org
in Sydney
Competitors	25 (16 men and 9 women) in 3 sports
Flag bearer	Pauline Davis-Thompson
Medals Ranked 35th	Gold 2 Silver 0 Bronze 1 Total 3
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The Bahamas competed at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia.This marked the first time The Bahamas won an Olympic gold medal as an independent nation, and the first time the nation won a gold medal since the 1964 Tokyo games when the country was still apart of the British Empire.

Medalists

Further information: 2000 Summer Olympics medal table and List of 2000 Summer Olympics medal winners

Medal	Name	Sport	Event
Gold	Savatheda Fynes Chandra Sturrup Pauline Davis-Thompson Debbie Ferguson Eldece Clarke-Lewis	Athletics	Women's 4 × 100 metres relay
Gold	Pauline Davis-Thompson	Athletics	Women's 200 metres
Bronze	Avard Moncur Troy McIntosh Carl Oliver Chris Brown Timothy Munnings	Athletics	Men's 4 × 400 metres relay

Competitors

The following is the list of number of competitors in the Games. ^[1]

Sport	Men	Women	Total
Athletics	10	9	19
Swimming	4	0	4
Tennis	2	0	2
Total	16	9	25

Athletics

Main article: Athletics at the 1996 Summer Olympics

Men

Track & road events

Athlete	Event	Heat		Quarterfinal		Semifinal		Final
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Chris Brown	400 m	45.80	2 Q	45.76	6	Did not advance
Dominic Demeritte	200 m	21.47	6	Did not advance
Troy McIntosh	400 m	47.06	6	Did not advance
Avard Moncur		45.23	1 Q	45.43	3 Q	45.18	5	Did not advance
Andrew Tynes	200 m	21.00	5	Did not advance
Renward Wells	100 m	10.47	5	Did not advance
	200 m	20.95	3 Q	21.26	8	Did not advance
Renward Wells Dominic Demeritte Iram Lewis Wellington Saunders-Whymms	4×100 m relay	39.57	4	Did not advance
Avard Moncur Troy McIntosh Carl Oliver Chris Brown Tim Munnings*	4×400 m relay	3:01.50	3 q	—		2:59.02	3 Q	2:59.23

Women

Track & road events

Athlete	Event	Heat		Quarterfinal		Semifinal		Final
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Christine Amertil	400 m	53.12	5	Did not advance
Pauline Davis-Thompson	200 m	22.61	2 Q	22.72	2 Q	22.38	1 Q	22.27
Debbie Ferguson-McKenzie	100 m	11.10	1 Q	11.18	2 Q	11.34	4 Q	11.29	8
	200 m	23.31	2 Q	22.72	1 Q	22.62	2 Q	22.37	4
Savatheda Fynes	100 m	11.18	1 Q	11.10	1 Q	11.16	4 Q	11.22	7
Chandra Sturrup	100 m	11.31	1 Q	11.22	3 Q	11.31	2 Q	11.21	5
	200 m	23.09	3 Q	23.21	5	Did not advance
Tonique Williams-Darling	400 m	53.43	6	Did not advance
Savatheda Fynes Chandra Sturrup Pauline Davis-Thompson Debbie Ferguson-McKenzie Eldece Clarke-Lewis	4×100 m relay	42.58	1 Q	—		42.42	1 Q	41.95

Field events

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
		Distance	Position	Distance	Position
Laverne Eve	Javelin throw	58.36	16	Did not advance
Jackie Edwards	Long jump	6.60	11 q	6.59	6

Swimming

Main article: Swimming at the 1996 Summer Olympics

Men

Athlete	Event	Heat		Semifinal		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Jeremy Knowles	200 metre breaststroke	2:20.31	36	Did not advance
	200 metre individual medley	2:06.85	35	Did not advance
	400 metre individual medley	4:26.87	31	Did not advance
Allan Murray	50 metre freestyle	23.34	37	Did not advance
Christopher Murray	100 metre freestyle	51.93	40	Did not advance
Nicholas Rees	100 metre butterfly	57.23	57	Did not advance

Tennis

Main article: Tennis at the 2000 Summer Olympics

Athlete	Event	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Mark Knowles Mark Merklein	Men's doubles	Marques / Mota  (POR) W 6-7 (7-9), 6-4, 7-5	O'Brien / Palmer  (USA) W 6-2, 6-4	Adams / J-F de Jager  (RSA) L 6–4, 2-6, 12-14	Did not advance		5

See also

• Bahamas at the 1998 Central American and Caribbean Games
• Bahamas at the 1999 Pan American Games

References

• Official Olympic Reports
• International Olympic Committee results database
• sports-reference

1. Bahamas at the 2000 Summer Olympics