Bermuda at the 2012 Summer Olympics
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| IOC code | BER | ||||||||
| NOC | Bermuda Olympic Association | ||||||||
| Website | www |
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| Competitors | 8 in 5 sports | ||||||||
| Flag bearer |
Zander Kirkland (opening) Flora Duffy (closing) |
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Bermuda competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, United Kingdom from 27 July to 12 August 2012. This was the territory's seventeenth appearance at the Olympics, having missed the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow.
The Bermuda Olympic Association sent a total of 8 athletes to the Games, 5 men and 3 women, to compete in athletics, equestrian, sailing, swimming, and triathlon. Five of them had competed in Beijing, but failed to advance past the first round of their events. Triathlete Tyler Butterfield made an Olympic return from the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, after an unsuccessful attempt to qualify for the Beijing games. Open skiff sailor Zander Kirkland, competing at his first Olympics, was the nation's flag bearer at the opening ceremony.
Bermuda, however, failed to win its first Olympic medal since the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, where Clarence Hill won the bronze for boxing. Long jumper Tyrone Smith qualified for the final rounds, but finished down the standings.
Athletes must achieve certain standards in order to qualify to the Olympics (up to a maximum of 3 athletes in each event at the 'A' Standard, and 1 at the 'B' Standard)): Bermuda's Tyrone Smith was able to reach the B standard while Arantxa King was given a wild card entry. Tyrone Smith qualified to the finals in long jump by finishing tenth with a jump of 7.97m. However, Smith missed out of the medal standings after he failed to jump twice of his three attempts, finishing only in twelfth place. Arantxa King, on the other hand, initially finished a twelfth-place tie in the long jump. However, she narrowly missed out of the final rounds by just a centimeter short from Belarus' Veronika Shutkova, who performed her second best jump.
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