The Bahamas first participated at the Olympic Games in 1952, and has sent athletes to compete in every Summer Olympic Games since then, except when they participated in the American-led boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics. The nation has never participated in the Winter Olympic Games.
Bahamian athletes have won a total of sixteen medals, all in athletics and sailing. The Bahamas has won more Olympic medals than any other country with a population under one million.
The National Olympic Committee for The Bahamas is the Bahamas Olympic Committee, and was created in 1952.
Medal tables Medals by Summer Games GamesAthletesGoldSilverBronzeTotalRank 7 0 0 0 0 – 4 0 0 1 1 35 13 0 0 0 0 – 11 1 0 0 1 24 16 0 0 0 0 – 20 0 0 0 0 – 11 0 0 0 0 – boycotted 22 0 0 0 0 – 16 0 0 0 0 – 14 0 0 1 1 54 26 0 1 0 1 61 25 2 0 1 3 34 22 1 0 1 2 52 25 0 1 1 2 64 24 1 0 0 1 50 28 1 0 1 2 50 16 2 0 0 2 42 18 0 0 0 0 – future event Total 8 2 6 16 66
Medals by sport
List of medalists Medal Name GamesSportEvent Sloane Farrington Sailing Star class Cecil Cooke Sailing Star class Athletics Men's triple jump Eldece Clarke-LewisChandra SturrupSavatheda FynesPauline Davis-Thompson Athletics Women's 4 × 100 metres relay Chandra SturrupPauline Davis-ThompsonDebbie FergusonEldece Clarke-Lewis Athletics Women's 4 × 100 metres relay Athletics Women's 200 metres Troy McIntoshCarl OliverChris BrownTimothy Munnings Athletics Men's 4 × 400 metres relay Athletics Women's 400 metres Athletics Women's 200 metres Andretti BainMichael MathieuAndrae WilliamsChris Brown Athletics Men's 4 × 400 metres relay Athletics Men's triple jump Michael MathieuRamon MillerChris BrownDemetrius Pinder Athletics Men's 4 × 400 metres relay Shaunae Miller Athletics Women's 400 metres Michael MathieuAlonzo RussellChris BrownSteven Gardiner Stephen Newbold Athletics Men's 4 × 400 metres relay Steven Gardiner Athletics Men's 400 metres Shaunae Miller-Uibo Athletics Women's 400 metres
Flagbearers
Summer Olympics Games Athlete Sport Mike Sands Athletics Mike Sands Athletics did not participate Bradley Cooper Athletics Durward Knowles Sailing Frank Rutherford Athletics Pauline Davis-Thompson Athletics Debbie Ferguson-McKenzie Athletics Debbie Ferguson-McKenzie Athletics Chris Brown Athletics Shaunae Miller Athletics Joanna Evans Donald Thomas Swimming Athletics Devynne Charlton Steven Gardiner Athletics
See also Bahamas at the Paralympics
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