Bermuda at the 2008 Summer Olympics
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| IOC code | BER | ||||||||
| NOC | Bermuda Olympic Association | ||||||||
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| Competitors | 6 in 4 sports | ||||||||
| Flag bearer | Jillian Terceira | ||||||||
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Bermuda sent a delegation to compete at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China. The games marked Bermuda's twenty-first Olympic appearance since its debut in 1936. The 2008 delegation included six athletes: Tyrone Smith and Arantxa King in long jump, Jillian Terceira in individual jumping on horseback, Kiera Aitken and Roy-Allan Burch in swimming (Aitken in backstroke, and Burch in freestyle), and Flora Duffy in triathlon. Bermuda did not win any medals in the Beijing games.
Bermuda's debut in the Olympic Games began with the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, Nazi Germany, when the Bermudian delegation included five athletes, all men. Bermuda had appeared in twenty-one Olympic Games between 1936 and the 2008 Beijing Olympics, excluding the 1980 Summer Olympics. Of those twenty-one games, sixteen of them were Summer Olympics. Bermuda had, prior to Beijing, earned one medal, when Clarence Hill won bronze in the 1976 Summer Olympics. The 2008 Bermudian delegation had fewer people than it usually sent abroad, prompting the president of the Bermudian Olympic Association Austin Woods to complain publicly that the year's Olympic team lacked access to quality coaches, administrators, and facilities, and with the exception of several athletes, lacked the skill to be competitive.
Bermuda dispatched six athletes in total to the Beijing Olympics. Of the delegation, two of the athletes (Roy-Allen Burch and Tyrone Smith) were men and four of the athletes (Flora Duffy, Kiera Aitken, Arantxa King, and Jill Terceira) were women. King was the youngest Bermudian participant during the 2008 Olympics, at 18 years of age, and Terceira was the oldest, at 37. No Bermudian athlete advanced to a final round during the 2008 Games.
Two people competed in track and field representing Bermuda: Tyrone Smith and Arantxa King. Smith participated in men's long jump, while Arantxa King participated in women's long jump. Neither advanced past the qualifying rounds in Beijing.
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