| Noc: | BAR |
| Nocname: | Barbados Olympic Association |
| Games: | Summer Olympics |
| Year: | 2004 |
| Location: | Athens |
| Competitors: | 10 |
| Sports: | 5 |
| Flagbearer: | Michael Maskell |
| Gold: | 0 |
| Silver: | 0 |
| Bronze: | 0 |
| Appearances: | auto |
| See also: | (1960) |
Barbados competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, from 13 to 29 August 2004. This nation marked its ninth appearance at the Olympics, except the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow because of the United States boycott.
The Barbados Olympic Association sent the nation's smallest team to the Games since the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal. A total of ten athletes, nine men and one woman, competed only in five different sports. Half of them had previously competed in Sydney, including track star and Olympic bronze medalist Obadele Thompson, and four-time Olympic skeet shooter Michael Maskell, who later became the nation's flag bearer in the opening ceremony.[1]
Barbados left Athens without a single Olympic medal, although Thompson managed to achieve a seventh-place finish in the 100 metres as the nation's highest result.
See main article: article and Athletics at the 2004 Summer Olympics. Barbadian athletes have so far achieved qualifying standards in the following athletics events (up to a maximum of 3 athletes in each event at the 'A' Standard, and 1 at the 'B' Standard).[2] [3]
| Athlete | Event | Heat | Quarterfinal | Semifinal | Final | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Result | Rank | Result | Rank | Result | Rank | Result | Rank | |||
| Stephen Jones | 110 m hurdles | 13.56 NR | 4 Q | 13.85 | 6 | Did not advance | ||||
| Obadele Thompson | 100 m | 10.08 | 2 Q | 10.12 | 2 Q | 10.22 | 4 Q | 10.10 | 7 | |
See main article: article and Cycling at the 2004 Summer Olympics.
See main article: article and Judo at the 2004 Summer Olympics. Barbados has qualified a single judoka.
See main article: article and Shooting at the 2004 Summer Olympics.
See main article: article and Swimming at the 2004 Summer Olympics. Barbadian swimmers earned qualifying standards in the following events (up to a maximum of 2 swimmers in each event at the A-standard time, and 1 at the B-standard time):
| Athlete | Event | Heat | Semifinal | Final | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Result | Rank | Result | Rank | Result | Rank | |||
| align=left rowspan=2 | Damian Alleyne | 100 m freestyle | 51.89 | 48 | Did not advance | |||
| 200 m freestyle | 1:52.89 | 34 | Did not advance | |||||
| align=left rowspan=4 | Bradley Ally | 100 m breaststroke | 1:04.71 | 41 | Did not advance | |||
| 200 m breaststroke | 2:18.64 | 35 | Did not advance | |||||
| 200 m individual medley | 2:03.29 | 23 | Did not advance | |||||
| 400 m individual medley | 4:24.70 | 25 | Did not advance | |||||
| Terrence Haynes | 50 m freestyle | 23.90 | 56 | Did not advance | ||||
| align=left rowspan=2 | Nicholas Neckles | 100 m backstroke | 56.32 | 25 | Did not advance | |||
| 200 m backstroke | 2:02.84 | 23 | Did not advance | |||||