page_title: Bermuda at the 2008 Summer Olympics
section_title: Athletics
hierarchical_section_title: Bermuda at the 2008 Summer Olympics / Athletics
caption_attribution_description: Čeština: Pekingský národní stadion. Deutsch: Nationalstadion Peking. English: Beijing National Stadium. Architect: Herzog &amp; de Meuron, ArupSport, China Architectural Design &amp; Research Group. Türkçe: Pekin Ulusal Stadyumu.
context_page_description: Bermuda sent a delegation to compete at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China. The games marked Bermuda's twenty-first Olympic appearance since its debut in 1936. The 2008 delegation included six athletes: Tyrone Smith and Arantxa King in long jump, Jillian Terceira in individual jumping on horseback, Kiera Aitken and Roy-Allan Burch in swimming, and Flora Duffy in triathlon. Bermuda did not win any medals in the Beijing games.
context_section_description: Two people competed in track and field representing Bermuda: Tyrone Smith and Arantxa King. Smith participated in men's long jump, while Arantxa King participated in women's long jump. Neither advanced past the qualifying rounds in Beijing.
  Former Missouri S&T student Tyrone "Sticks" Smith earned a spot on Bermuda's team when he finished in third place at the long jump event that took place during the 2008 Central American and Caribbean Championships in Cali, Colombia. Smith's appearance at the Beijing Olympics was his first at any of the Olympic games. During the course of the event at the Olympics, Smith was placed in Heat 2 of the August 16 qualifying rounds, set to compete against athletes that included Irving Jahir Saladino Aranda of Panama (who won the gold medal in finals) and Ngonidzashe Makusha of Zimbabwe (who was fourth-place runner-up in finals). Out of twenty competitors, Smith ranked seventh with a distance of 7.91 meters. He was 0.1 meters ahead of Fabrice Lapierre of Australia, who placed eighth in the qualifying round, and 0.13 meters behind heat leader Makusha. Tyrone Smith was three centimeters short of a distance that would have qualified him for finals, and did not progress.
  Stanford first-year student Arantxa King was chosen by the Bermuda Olympic Association on Wednesday, July 23, 2008 through the use of its IAAF female at-large selection. Her participation in the 2008 Beijing Olympics marked her Olympic debut. During the August 18 Qualifying rounds, King was placed in Heat 2 versus competitors that included Russia's Tatiana Lebedeva and Nigeria's Blessing Okagbare, both of whom received medals in the event finals. King jumped a distance of 6.01 meters, 0.69 meters behind leading qualifier Lebedeva's score, placing nineteenth (out of twenty-one) in the event. She placed last in the heat, ahead of two disqualified athletes, and thirty-sixth (out of forty-two) athletes when considering all heats at once. Arantxa King did not progress to the next and final round on August 22.
  Key
  Note–Ranks given for track events are within the athlete's heat only
  Q = Qualified for the next round
  q = Qualified for the next round as a fastest loser or, in field events, by position without achieving the qualifying target
  NR = National record
  N/A = Round not applicable for the event
  Bye = Athlete not required to compete in round
caption: The Beijing National Stadium, where track and field (athletics) events took place.
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