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- HISTORY - BERMUDA'S OLYMPIC ATHLETES
Heavyweight boxer CLARENCE HILL (below) won the BRONZE MEDAL for Bermuda at the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal. He is the only Bermudian ever to win an Olympic Medal.
Bermuda has participated in a total of 11 different sporting
events. These include athletics, boxing, cycling, diving, equestrian,
luge, rowing, sailing, swimming, tennis and for the first time in the XXVIII
Olympic Games in Athens 2004, triathlon. The first Olympic group that represented Bermuda was the swimming team who competed in the Berlin 1936 Olympics.
Patrick Singleton is the only Bermudian to have competed in the Winter Olympics in three consecutive Winter Games, having competed in the Luge event in Nagano in 1998, Salt Lake City 2002, and the Skeleton event in Torino 2006.
Simon Payne was the first Olympian to represent Bermuda in a Winter Olympics, competing in the luge event in Albertville in 1992. He also competed in Lillehammer in 1994.
The first women to compete in the Olympics for Bermuda were the athletes Phyllis Edness and Phyllis Lightbourn (Jones) in London in 1948.
When they competed in Barcelona in 1992, sailing brothers
Reid and Jay Kempe followed in the Olympic footsteps of their father Jimmy,
who sailed in the 1956 and 1960 Games. Winter Olympian Simon Payne
(1992 and 1994) followed his father, middle distance runner Jeff Payne, who
was on Bermuda's 1968 Olympic team. The most Bermuda representatives of any one Olympic sport was a total of nine in the yachting team in Rome, 1960.
Sailors Eugene (Penny) Simmons and Peter Bromby, and triple jumper Brian Wellman have competed for Bermuda in four Olympics. Sprinter Troy Douglas, sailor Kirk Cooper, high jumper Nicky Saunders, equestrian Mary Jane Tumbridge and sailor Paula Lewin are all three-time Olympians. Tennis was represented for the first and only time by Stephen Alger in Seoul in 1988 The largest Bermuda Olympic team was 20 at the 1992 Games in Barcelona.
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