Barbados at the 2018 Commonwealth Games explained

Cga:	BAR
Cganame:	Barbados Olympic Association
Games:	Commonwealth Games
Year:	2018
Flagcaption:	Flag of Barbados
Location:	Gold Coast, Australia
Competitors:	45
Sports:	11
Flagbearer:	Meagan Best
Rank:	0
Gold:	0
Silver:	0
Bronze:	0
App Begin Year:	1954
Start Date:	4 April 2018
End Date:	15 April 2018

Barbados competed at the 2018 Commonwealth Games in the Gold Coast, Australia from April 4 to April 15, 2018.^[1] It was Barbados's 16th appearance at the Commonwealth Games.

Squash athlete Meagan Best was the country's flag bearer during the opening ceremony.^[2]

Competitors

The following is the list of number of competitors participating at the Games per sport/discipline.

width=100	Sport	width=55	Men	width=55	Women	width=55	Total
Athletics	5	3	8
Badminton	2	0	2
Boxing	1	1	2
Cycling	0	1	1
Netball		12	12
Shooting	7	1	8
Squash	1	2	3
Swimming	1	0	1
Table tennis	4	0	4
Triathlon	2	0	2
Weightlifting	2	0	2
Total	25	20	45

Athletics

See main article: Athletics at the 2018 Commonwealth Games. Barbados participated with 8 athletes (5 men and 3 women).

Men

Athlete	Event	Heat		Semifinal		Final
Athlete	Event	Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Ramon Gittens	align=left rowspan=2	100 m	10.50	2 Q	10.44	7	did not advance
Stephen Headley	10.70	4	did not advance
Shane Brathwaite	align=left rowspan=3	200 m			did not advance
Nicholas Deshong	21.26	4	did not advance
Burkheart Ellis Jr	21.02	2 Q	20.79	6	did not advance
Shane Brathwaite	align=left	110 m hurdles	13.64	5 q	13.53	6
Shane Brathwaite Nicholas Deshong Burkheart Ellis Jr Ramon Gittens	4 × 100 m relay	38.95	4 q	39.04	5

Women

Athlete	Event	Heat		Semifinal		Final
Athlete	Event	Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Sada Williams	200 m	DNS		did not advance
Kierre Beckles	100 m hurdles	13.66	6	did not advance
Tia-Adana Belle	align=left rowspan=	400 m hurdles	56.55	7	did not advance

Badminton

See main article: Badminton at the 2018 Commonwealth Games. Barbados participated with two athletes (two men)

Athlete	Event	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final /
Athlete	Event	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Cory Fanus	align=left rowspan=2	Men's singles	L 0 - 2	did not advance
Dakeil Thorpe		L 0 - 2	did not advance
Cory Fanus Dakeil Thorpe	Men's doubles			L 0 - 2	did not advance

Boxing

See main article: Boxing at the 2018 Commonwealth Games. Barbados participated with a team of 2 athletes (1 man and 1 woman)

Athlete	Event	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final	Rank
Athlete	Event	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Jabali Breedy	Men's −52 kg	L 0-5	Colspan=4	did not advance
Kimberly Gittens	Women's −60 kg	L 0-5	Colspan=4	did not advance

Cycling

See main article: Cycling at the 2018 Commonwealth Games. Barbados participated with 1 athlete (1 woman).

Track

Points race

Scratch race

Netball

See main article: Netball at the 2018 Commonwealth Games. Barbados qualified a netball team by virtue of being ranked in the top 11 (excluding the host nation, Australia) of the INF World Rankings on July 1, 2017.^[3] ^[4] ^[5]

Roster

Shonette Azore
Latonia Blackman
Vanessa Bobb
Damisha Croney
Rieah Holder
Teresa Howell
Rhe-Ann Niles
Nikita Piggott
Tonisha Rock-Yaw
Shonte Seale
Sabreena Smith
Shonica Wharton

Pool A

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Ninth place match

Shooting

See main article: Shooting at the 2018 Commonwealth Games. Barbados participated with 8 athletes (7 men and 1 woman).

Men

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
Athlete	Event	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Louis Estwick	50 metre rifle prone	577.8	29	did not advance
Bernard Chase	align=left rowspan=2	50 metre pistol	470	20	did not advance
Ronald Sargeant	481	19	did not advance
Bernard Chase	align=left rowspan=2	10 metre air pistol	537	18	did not advance
Ronald Sargeant	519	21	did not advance
Michael Maskell	align=left rowspan=2	Trap	102	29	did not advance
Justin St. John	103	27	did not advance
Michael Maskell	Skeet	118	8	did not advance

Women

Open

Athlete	Event	Day 1		Day 2		Day 3		Total
Athlete	Event	Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Overall	Rank
Richard Arthur	align=left rowspan=2	Queen's prize individual	96-1v	28	139-4v	29	139-13v	27	374-18v	28
Jason Wood	102-4v	23	142-12v	27	147-14v	10	391-30v	22
Richard Arthur Jason Wood	Queen's prize pairs	274-20v	14	250-5v	14	524-25v	14

Squash

See main article: Squash at the 2018 Commonwealth Games. Barbados participated with 3 athletes (1 man and 2 women).

Individual

Athlete	Event	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
Athlete	Event	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Shawn Simpson	Men's singles	L 1 - 3	did not advance
Meagan Best	align=left rowspan=2	Women's singles		L 0 - 3	did not advance
Amanda Haywood	W 3 - 2	L 0 - 3	did not advance

Doubles

Swimming

See main article: Swimming at the 2018 Commonwealth Games. Barbados participated with 1 athlete (1 man).

Men

Athlete	Event	Heat		Semifinal		Final
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
align=left rowspan=3	Alex Sobers	50 m freestyle	23.75	28	did not advance
100 m freestyle	51.12	29	did not advance
200 m freestyle	1:51.87	20	did not advance

Table tennis

See main article: Table tennis at the 2018 Commonwealth Games. Barbados participated with 4 athletes (4 men).

Singles

Athletes	Event	Group Stage			Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final	Rank
Athletes	Event	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Kristian Doughty	align=left rowspan=3	Men's singles	L 0 - 4	W 4 - 2	2	did not advance
Mark Dowell	L 2 - 4	L 0 - 4	3	did not advance
Tyrese Knight	L 3 - 4	W 4 - 1	2	did not advance

Doubles

Athletes	Event	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final	Rank
Athletes	Event	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Kristian Doughty Marcus Smith	align=left rowspan=2	Men's doubles		L 0 - 3	did not advance
Mark Dowell Tyrese Knight		L 0 - 3	did not advance

Team

Triathlon

See main article: Triathlon at the 2018 Commonwealth Games. Barbados participated with 2 athletes (2 men).

Individual

Athlete	Event	Swim (750 m)	Trans 1	Bike (20 km)	Trans 2	Run (5 km)	Total	Rank
Jason Wilson	align=left rowspan=2	Men's	9:13	0:34	31:12	0:27	16:48	58:14	23
Matthew Wright	10:12	0:37	30:48	0:28	16:41	58:46	25

Weightlifting

See main article: Weightlifting at the 2018 Commonwealth Games and Weightlifting at the 2018 Commonwealth Games – Qualification. Barbados participated with two athletes (two men).^[6]

Athlete	Event	Snatch		Clean & Jerk		Total	Rank
Athlete	Event	Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Total	Rank
Romario Forde	Men's −77 kg	117	13	160	7	277	11
Ivorn McKnee	Men's −105 kg	145	6	did not finish

Notes and References

Web site: 71 Nations and Territories. 6 Continents. 2 Billion citizens. 1 commonwealth family . www.gc2018.com/ . Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games Corporation . 8 October 2016 . 10 October 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20161010110422/https://www.gc2018.com/games/nations-and-territories . dead .
Web site: Barbados named best flagbearer for Gold Coast 2018 Opening Ceremony. Pavitt. Michael. 15 March 2018. Insidethegames.biz. Dunsar Media. 20 March 2018.
Web site: Uganda to make Commonwealth Games netball debut at Gold Coast 2018. Pavitt . Michael. 25 July 2017. Insidethegames.biz. Dunsar Media . 28 July 2017.
Web site: Competing nations announced for GC2018 Netball Competition. Dakin. Rebecca. 24 July 2017. www.mygc.com.au/. myGC. 28 July 2017.
Web site: International Netball Federation: 2018 Commonwealth Games. 17 April 2017.
Web site: Qualification List of the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games . March 2018 . www.iwf.net/ . International Weightlifting Federation. 21 March 2018.