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| Nationality |  Bahamas | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 16 May 1995 The Bahamas | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Running | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Event(s) | 100 metres, 200 metres, | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Carmiesha Cox (born 16 May 1995) is a Bahamian sprinter and hurdler who attended Purdue University. She was part of a gold-medal winning Bahamian team at the 2011 Pan American Junior Athletics Championships. [1] [2] She also ran the third leg of the 4x400 metres Relay at the 2016 Olympic Games. [3]
Carmiesha Arecta Anna Cox was born to Carmen and Dwight Cox. [4] She has four siblings - three older brothers and one older sister. [4] Cox attended high school at Aquinas College. She later attended Purdue University, from 2014 to 2018, where she majored in Business Management. [4]
Debbie Ferguson-McKenzie is a former Bahamian sprinter who specialised in the 100 and 200 metres. Ferguson-McKenzie participated in five Olympics.
Christopher Devon "Chris" BrownOLY, also known as "Fireman", is a Bahamian track and field athlete from the Bahamian island of Eleuthera, who mainly competes in the 400 m. In addition to winning medals in individual contests, he has also won four World Championships medals in the relay. He also won a gold medal in the relay at the 2012 London Olympic Games. He is an alumnus of Norfolk State University.
Derrick Atkins is a Bahamian sprinter. Atkins specializes in the 100 metres event and also holds the national record, with a time of 9.91 seconds. He is the second cousin of former world record holder Asafa Powell.
Michael Walter Mathieu is a retired Bahamian sprinter hailing from Freeport, Grand Bahama who specialized in the 200 metres and 400 metres. He was part of the Bahamian silver medal-winning team in the men's 4×400 metres relay at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, running second leg and recording a 44.0 split, and the gold medal-winning team at the 2012 Summer Olympics. He was also a part of second place relay team at the 2007 World Championships. He won the bronze medal in the 4x400 metres relay in the 2016 Summer Olympics.
Ramon Salomon Miller is a Bahamian sprinter.
Demetrius Pinder is a Bahamian male track and field sprint athlete who competes in the 400 metres. His personal best for the event is 44.63 seconds. At the 2012 London Olympics he was a 400 m finalist and relay gold medallist.
Anthonique Strachan is a Bahamian sprinter, she is the 2012 100m and 200m World Junior Champion. She competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics, 2016 Summer Olympics and the 2020 Summer Olympics, in 200 m. and 4 × 400 m relay
Shaunae Miller-Uibo is a Bahamian track and field sprinter who competes in the 200 and 400 metres. She is a two-time Olympic champion after winning the women's 400 metres at the 2016 Rio Olympics and again at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
Michael Sands is a Bahamian former track and field sprinter. During his peak he held the Bahamian records from 100 metres to 400 metres.
Steven Gardiner is a Bahamian track and field sprinter competing in the 400 metres and 200 metres. He is the 2020 Olympic and 2019 world champion in the 400 m, and also won the silver medal at the 2017 World Championships in that event. His winning time of 43.48 s from the 2019 World Championships is the Bahamian record and makes him the eighth‑fastest man in the history of the event. Gardiner also owns the Bahamian records in the outdoor 300 m and 200 m, with times of 31.83 s and 19.75 s respectively, and the world best in the indoor 300 m at 31.56 s.
Devynne Ashtyn Charlton is a Bahamian athlete specialising in the 100 metres hurdles.
Bernard J. Nottage, MD was a Bahamian sprinter, gynecologist and politician. He competed in the men's 100 metres and 200 metres at the 1968 Summer Olympics. He finished sixth in the 1967 Pan American Games 200 metres.
V'Alonee Robinson is a Bahamian sprinter was selected for her country in the 4x100 meter relay at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, England, but did not compete.
Norbert Elliott is a former Bahamian athlete and NCAA coach. He competed in the men's triple jump at the 1988 Summer Olympics and the 1992 Summer Olympics.
Samson Colebrooke is a Bahamian sprinter. He is the fastest born-Bahamian athlete over 100m as Derrick Atkins, the national record holder, was born in Jamaica.
The most popular sports in the Bahamas are those of colonial British origin as well as those adopted from neighbouring United States. They include athletics, basketball, baseball, American football, swimming, softball, tennis, boxing, and volleyball track.
This article is about the Athletics in the Bahamas from the early 20th century to onward
Elroy McBride is a Bahamian sprinter from Abaco Islands in The Bahamas who competed in the 200m and 400. He attended Moores Island All-Age School in Moore's Island where he was a part of the Exterminators Track and Field Club, Coached by Pastor Anthony Williams. He then went on to compete for Southwestern Christian College and Texas Tech University.
Denisha Cartwright is a Bahamian sprinter and sprint hurdler.
Camille Rutherford is a Bahamian sprinter. She became the national champion over 100 metres in 2024.
Last year at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics, the Bahamian quartet broke the national record... The team of Lanece Clarke, Anthonique Strachan, Carmiesha Cox and Christine Amertil, in that order, ran a new national record time of 3:26.36, slaughtering the old national mark by over two seconds.
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