# Bahamas at the 2000 Summer Olympics

The Bahamas competed at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia.This marked the first time The Bahamas won an Olympic gold medal as an independent nation since independence in 1973, and the first time the nation won a gold medal since the 1964 Tokyo games when the country was still apart of the British Empire.

## Medalists

| Medal | Name | Sport | Event | Date |
| Gold | Pauline Davis-Thompson | Athletics | Women's 200 metres | 28 September |
| Gold | Savatheda Fynes Chandra Sturrup Pauline Davis-Thompson Debbie Ferguson Eldece Clarke-Lewis | Athletics | Women's 4 × 100 metres relay | 30 September |
| Bronze | Avard Moncur Troy McIntosh Carl Oliver Chris Brown Timothy Munnings | Athletics | Men's 4 × 400 metres relay | 30 September |

## Competitors

The following is the list of number of competitors in the Games.
| Sport | Men | Women | Total |
| Athletics | 10 | 9 | 19 |
| Swimming | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| Tennis | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Total | 16 | 9 | 25 |

## Athletics
### Track & road events

| Athlete | Event | Heat | Heat | Quarterfinal | Quarterfinal | Semifinal | Semifinal | Final | Final |
| Athlete | Event | Result | Rank | Result | Rank | Result | Rank | Result | Rank |
| Chris Brown | 400 m | 45.80 | 2 Q | 45.76 | 6 | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance |
| Dominic Demeritte | 200 m | 21.47 | 6 | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance |
| Troy McIntosh | 400 m | 47.06 | 6 | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance |
| Avard Moncur | 400 m | 45.23 | 1 Q | 45.43 | 3 Q | 45.18 | 5 | Did not advance | Did not advance |
| Andrew Tynes | 200 m | 21.00 | 5 | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance |
| Renward Wells | 100 m | 10.47 | 5 | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance |
| Renward Wells | 200 m | 20.95 | 3 Q | 21.26 | 8 | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance |
| Renward Wells Dominic Demeritte Iram Lewis Wellington Saunders-Whymms | 4×100 m relay | 39.57 | 4 | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance |
| Avard Moncur Troy McIntosh Carl Oliver Chris Brown Tim Munnings* | 4×400 m relay | 3:01.50 | 3 q | — | — | 2:59.02 | 3 Q | 2:59.23 | |

### Track & road events

| Athlete | Event | Heat | Heat | Quarterfinal | Quarterfinal | Semifinal | Semifinal | Final | Final |
| Athlete | Event | Result | Rank | Result | Rank | Result | Rank | Result | Rank |
| Christine Amertil | 400 m | 53.12 | 5 | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance |
| Pauline Davis-Thompson | 200 m | 22.61 | 2 Q | 22.72 | 2 Q | 22.38 | 1 Q | 22.27 | |
| Debbie Ferguson-McKenzie | 100 m | 11.10 | 1 Q | 11.18 | 2 Q | 11.34 | 4 Q | 11.29 | 8 |
| Debbie Ferguson-McKenzie | 200 m | 23.31 | 2 Q | 22.72 | 1 Q | 22.62 | 2 Q | 22.37 | 4 |
| Savatheda Fynes | 100 m | 11.18 | 1 Q | 11.10 | 1 Q | 11.16 | 4 Q | 11.22 | 7 |
| Chandra Sturrup | 100 m | 11.31 | 1 Q | 11.22 | 3 Q | 11.31 | 2 Q | 11.21 | 5 |
| Chandra Sturrup | 200 m | 23.09 | 3 Q | 23.21 | 5 | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance |
| Tonique Williams-Darling | 400 m | 53.43 | 6 | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance |
| Savatheda Fynes Chandra Sturrup Pauline Davis-Thompson Debbie Ferguson-McKenzie Eldece Clarke-Lewis | 4×100 m relay | 42.58 | 1 Q | — | — | 42.42 | 1 Q | 41.95 | |

### Field events

| Athlete | Event | Qualification | Qualification | Final | Final |
| Athlete | Event | Distance | Position | Distance | Position |
| Laverne Eve | Javelin throw | 58.36 | 16 | Did not advance | Did not advance |
| Jackie Edwards | Long jump | 6.60 | 11 q | 6.59 | 6 |

## Swimming
### Men

| Athlete | Event | Heat | Heat | Semifinal | Semifinal | Final | Final |
| Athlete | Event | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank |
| Jeremy Knowles | 200 metre breaststroke | 2:20.31 | 36 | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance |
| Jeremy Knowles | 200 metre individual medley | 2:06.85 | 35 | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance |
| Jeremy Knowles | 400 metre individual medley | 4:26.87 | 31 | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance |
| Allan Murray | 50 metre freestyle | 23.34 | 37 | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance |
| Christopher Murray | 100 metre freestyle | 51.93 | 40 | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance |
| Nicholas Rees | 100 metre butterfly | 57.23 | 57 | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance |

## Tennis

| Athlete | Event | Round of 32 | Round of 16 | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Final / BM | Final / BM |
| Athlete | Event | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Rank |
| Mark Knowles Mark Merklein | Men's doubles | Marques / Mota (POR) W 6-7 (7-9), 6-4, 7-5 | O'Brien / Palmer (USA) W 6-2, 6-4 | Adams / J-F de Jager (RSA) L 6–4, 2-6, 12-14 | Did not advance | Did not advance | 5 |