Bermuda at the 1936 Summer Olympics

Bermuda at the Olympic Games
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At the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin
Competitors	5 in 1 sport
Flag bearer	Whitfield Fredrick Hayward
Medals	Gold 0	Silver 0	Bronze 0	Total 0
Olympic history (summary)
Summer Games
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Winter Games
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Bermuda competed in the Summer Olympic Games for the first time at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, Germany. After gaining IOC recognition in February 1936, Bermuda were invited to take part in the 1936 Summer Olympics. With the financial backing of Sir Howard Trott, a team of swimmers would be sent. Whitfield Fredrick "Chummy" Hayward a successful businessman and an accomplished athlete, arranged for American coach William Brooks to come to Bermuda to train the swimmers and also persuaded Leonard Spence an ex-world breaststroke record holder^[1] to move from British Guiana to Bermuda in order to compete for them. He traveled to Berlin as the team manager, and carried the flag at the opening ceremony.^[2]

Swimming

Athlete	Event	Heat		Semifinal		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Percy Belvin	200 m breaststroke	3:09.08	5	Did not advance
Edmund Cooper	400 m freestyle	5:53.8	5	Did not advance
John Young	100 m freestyle	1:07.8	6	Did not advance
Leonard Spence	100 m freestyle	1:01.9	4	Did not advance
	200 m breaststroke	2:52.0	1 Q		Disqualified
Edmund Cooper Leonard Spence Dudley Spurling John Young	4x200m freestyle relay	10:50.5	5	N/A		Did not advance

References

1. "World records". ISHOF. Retrieved 29 Aug 2013.
2. "Bermuda Biography". Bermuda Biographies. Retrieved 29 Aug 2013.

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