Barbados at the 1988 Summer Olympics explained

Noc:	BAR
Nocname:	Barbados Olympic Association
Games:	Summer Olympics
Year:	1988
Location:	Seoul
Competitors:	17 (16 men and 1 woman)
Sports:	7
Flagbearer:	Elvis Forde
Gold:	0
Silver:	0
Bronze:	0
Appearances:	auto
See also:	(1960)

Barbados competed at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea. Seventeen competitors, sixteen men and one woman, took part in twenty events in seven sports.^[1]

Competitors

The following is the list of number of competitors in the Games.^[2]

width=180	Sport	width=55	Men	width=55	Women	width=55	Total
Athletics	5	1	6
Boxing	2	–	2
Cycling	2	0	2
Diving	1	0	1
Judo	1	–	1
Sailing	4	0	4
Swimming	1	0	1
Total	16	1	17

Athletics

See main article: Athletics at the 1988 Summer Olympics.

Men

Track and road events

Athlete	Event	Heat Round 1		Heat Round 2		Semifinal		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
align=left rowspan=2	Henrico Atkins	100 metres	11.01	85	Did not advance
200 metres	21.98	54	Did not advance
Elvis Forde	align=left rowspan=3	400 metres	46.47	22 Q	46.59	31	Did not advance
Richard Louis	46.80	36	Did not advance
Seibert Straughn	47.37	44	Did not advance
Allan Ince	400 metres hurdles	52.76	32	Did not advance
Seibert Straughn Richard Louis Allan Ince Elvis Forde	4 × 400 metres relay	3:06.03	9 q	3:06.93	11	Did not advance

Women

Track and road events

Athlete	Event	Heat Round 1		Heat Round 2		Semifinal		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
align=left rowspan=2	Yolande Straughn	200 metres	23.81	33	Did not advance
400 metres	53.62	30 q	54.22	31	Did not advance

Boxing

See main article: Boxing at the 1988 Summer Olympics.

Athlete	Event	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Sean Knight	Lightweight	W 5–0	L RSC R1	Did not advance
Gregory Griffith	Welterweight		L KO	Did not advance

Cycling

See main article: Cycling at the 1988 Summer Olympics. Two male cyclists represented Barbados in 1988.

Track

Sprint

Time trial

Points race

Diving

See main article: Diving at the 1988 Summer Olympics.

Men

Judo

See main article: Judo at the 1988 Summer Olympics.

Sailing

See main article: Sailing at the 1988 Summer Olympics.

Open

Athlete	Event	Race							Net points	Final rank
		1	2	3	4	5	6	7
Brian Talma	Division II	52	43	45	41	25	43	33	230	33
Shane Atwell	Finn	33	34	33	34	40	32	25	191	28
Howard Palmer Michael Green	Star	28	24	20	18	13	23	16	114	14

Swimming

See main article: Swimming at the 1988 Summer Olympics.

Men

Athlete	Event	Heats		Final A/B
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank
align=left rowspan=3	Paul Yelle	50 metre freestyle	25.15	49	Did not advance
100 metre freestyle	55.35	61	Did not advance
100 metre butterfly	57.36	34	Did not advance

External links

• Official Olympic Reports

Notes and References

1. Web site: Barbados at the 1988 Summer Games . https://web.archive.org/web/20200417092403/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/countries/BAR/summer/1988/ . dead . 17 April 2020 . 7 July 2016 . Sports Reference.
2. https://www.olympedia.org/countries/BAR/editions/22 Barbados at the 1988 Summer Olympics