Bermuda at the 2016 Summer Olympics

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Bermuda at the
2016 Summer Olympics
Flag of Bermuda.svg
IOC code BER
NOC Bermuda Olympic Association
Website www.olympics.bm
in Rio de Janeiro
Competitors8 in 5 sports
Flag bearer Tyrone Smith [1]
Medals
Gold
0
Silver
0
Bronze
0
Total
0
Summer Olympics appearances (overview)

Bermuda competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 5 to 21 August 2016. Since the nation's official debut in 1936, Bermudian athletes have appeared in every edition of the Summer Olympic Games, but did not attend the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow because of the nation's partial support for the US-led boycott.

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The Bermuda Olympic Association sent a total of eight athletes, four per gender, to compete in five different sports at the Games, matching its roster size with London 2012. [2] Two of them returned for their third Olympic appearance in Rio de Janeiro: triathlete Flora Duffy and long jumper Tyrone Smith, who finished twelfth in the final at the previous Games. The most successful and experienced member of the team, Smith was appointed by the committee to carry the Bermudian flag in the opening ceremony. [1] Among the sports represented by the athletes, Bermuda marked its Olympic return in rowing for the first time since 1972. However, Bermuda failed to send an athlete in equestrian for the first time since 1976.

Bermuda, however, failed to collect its first Olympic medal, since the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, where Clarence Hill won the bronze in men's heavyweight boxing. Unable to end her nation's 40-year drought on the podium, Duffy produced the best result for the Bermudans at the Games, finishing eighth in the women's triathlon. [3]

Athletics (track and field)

Bermudan athletes have so far achieved qualifying standards in the following athletics events (up to a maximum of 3 athletes in each event): [4] [5]

Key
Track & road events
AthleteEventHeatSemifinalFinal
ResultRankResultRankResultRank
Harold Houston Men's 200 m 20.856Did not advance
Field events
AthleteEventQualificationFinal
DistancePositionDistancePosition
Tyrone Smith Men's long jump 7.8116Did not advance

Rowing

Bermuda has qualified one boat in the women's single sculls for the Games at the 2016 Latin American Continental Qualification Regatta in Valparaiso, Chile, signifying the nation's Olympic return to the sport for the first time since 1972. [6]

AthleteEventHeatsRepechageQuarterfinalsSemifinalsFinal
TimeRankTimeRankTimeRankTimeRankTimeRank
Michelle Pearson Women's single sculls 8:22.153 QFBye7:34.004 SC/D8:05.782 FC7:34.4116

Qualification Legend: FA=Final A (medal); FB=Final B (non-medal); FC=Final C (non-medal); FD=Final D (non-medal); FE=Final E (non-medal); FF=Final F (non-medal); SA/B=Semifinals A/B; SC/D=Semifinals C/D; SE/F=Semifinals E/F; QF=Quarterfinals; R=Repechage

Sailing

Bermuda has qualified a boat in the Laser Radial class by virtue of a top finish for North America at the 2016 ISAF World Cup regatta in Miami, Florida, United States. [7] Another boat was also awarded to the Bermudian sailor competing in the Laser boat through a Tripartite Commission invitation.

AthleteEventRaceNet pointsFinal rank
12345678910M*
Cameron Pimentel Men's Laser 31454127444239344239EL33941
Cecilia Wollmann Women's Laser Radial 32283335353334333232EL29134

M = Medal race; EL = Eliminated – did not advance into the medal race

Swimming

Bermuda has received a Universality invitation from FINA to send two swimmers (one male and one female) to the Olympics. [8] [9] [10]

AthleteEventHeatSemifinalFinal
TimeRankTimeRankTimeRank
Julian Fletcher Men's 100 m breaststroke 1:02.7340Did not advance
Rebecca Heyliger Women's 50 m freestyle 26.5452Did not advance

Triathlon

Bermuda has entered one triathlete to compete at the Games. Remarkably going to her third Olympics, world no. 6 seed Flora Duffy was ranked among the top 40 eligible triathletes in the women's event based on the ITU Olympic Qualification List as of 15 May 2016. [11] [12]

AthleteEventSwim (1.5 km)Trans 1Bike (40 km)Trans 2Run (10 km)Total TimeRank
Flora Duffy Women's 19:080:521:01:290:4136:151:58:258

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