Barbados at the 2018 Commonwealth Games

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.

Barbados at the 2018 Commonwealth Games
Flag of Barbados
CGF code	BAR
CGA	Barbados Olympic Association
Website	olympic.org.bb
in Gold Coast, Australia 4 April 2018 – 15 April 2018
Competitors	45 in 11 sports
Flag bearer	Meagan Best
Medals Ranked 0th	Gold 0 Silver 0 Bronze 0 Total 0
Commonwealth Games appearances (overview)
1954 1958 1962 1966 1970 1974 1978 1982 1986 1990 1994 1998 2002 2006 2010 2014 2018 2022

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.

Sport	Men	Women	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

Main article: Athletics at the 2018 Commonwealth Games

Barbados participated with 8 athletes (5 men and 3 women).

Men

Track & road events

Athlete	Event	Heat		Semifinal		Final
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Ramon Gittens	100 m	10.50	2 Q	10.44	7	did not advance
Stephen Headley		10.70	4	did not advance
Shane Brathwaite	200 m	DSQ		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	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

Track & road events

Athlete	Event	Heat		Semifinal		Final
		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	400 m hurdles	56.55	7	—		did not advance

Badminton

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 / BM
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Cory Fanus	Men's singles	Yang (CAN) L 0 - 2	did not advance
Dakeil Thorpe		BYE	Mulenga (ZAM) L 0 - 2	did not advance
Cory Fanus Dakeil Thorpe	Men's doubles	—	BYE	Dunn / Hall (SCO) L 0 - 2	did not advance

Boxing

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
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result
Jabali Breedy	Men's −52 kg	Brendan Irvine (NIR) L 0-5	did not advance
Kimberly Gittens	Women's −60 kg	Sarita Devi (IND) L 0-5	did not advance

Cycling

Main article: Cycling at the 2018 Commonwealth Games

Barbados participated with 1 athlete (1 woman).

Track

Points race

Athlete	Event	Final
		Points	Rank
Amber Joseph	Women's points race	0	15

Scratch race

Athlete	Event	Final
Amber Joseph	Women's scratch race	16

Netball

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

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Australia (H)	5	5	0	0	413	162	+251	10	Semi-finals
2	Jamaica	5	4	0	1	351	221	+130	8
3	South Africa	5	3	0	2	310	205	+105	6	Classification matches
4	Northern Ireland	5	2	0	3	224	307	−83	4
5	Barbados	5	1	0	4	185	333	−148	2
6	Fiji	5	0	0	5	171	426	−255	0

Updated to match(es) played on 11 April 2018. Source: GC2018
(H) Hosts

6 April 2018 20:30 v t e	Report	Barbados	24–79	Australia		Gold Coast Convention and Exhibition Centre Umpires: Lisa McPhail Kristie Simpson Reserve umpire: Kate Stephenson
		Wharton  12/17 (71%) Blackman  8/10 (80%) Payne  4/5 (80%)		Thwaites  24/24 (100%) Bassett  23/26 (88%) Wood  17/17 (100%) Pettitt  15/15 (100%)

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7 April 2018 20:30 v t e	Report	Fiji	44–65	Barbados		Gold Coast Convention and Exhibition Centre Umpires: Maria van der Merwe Theresa Prince Reserve umpire: Michelle Phippard
		M. Rusivakula  27/31 (87%) U. Rusivakula  10/12 (83%) Waqa  7/8 (88%)		Wharton  33/38 (87%) Blackman  22/28 (79%) Payne  10/12 (83%)

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9 April 2018 18:30 v t e	Report	Jamaica	76–32	Barbados		Gold Coast Convention and Exhibition Centre Umpires: Maria van der Merwe Marc Henning Reserve umpire: Gary Burgess
		Fowler-Reid  32/36 (89%) Aiken  28/33 (85%) Beckford  12/14 (86%) Robinson  4/8 (50%)		Blackman  17/19 (89%) Wharton  9/12 (75%) Payne  6/9 (67%)

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10 April 2018 13:00 v t e	Report	Barbados	39–49	Northern Ireland		Gold Coast Convention and Exhibition Centre Umpires: Theresa Prince Gary Burgess Reserve umpire: Maria van der Merwe
		Wharton  27/29 (93%) Blackman  9/12 (75%) Payne  3/3 (100%)		L. Bowman  20/25 (80%) Lennon  15/16 (94%) Oonagh McCullough  9/15 (60%) K. Bowman  5/7 (71%)

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11 April 2018 11:00 v t e	Report	South Africa	85–25	Barbados		Gold Coast Convention and Exhibition Centre Umpires: Jackie Mizon Kate Stephenson Reserve umpire: Jono Bredin
		Venter  34/35 (97%) Burger  33/35 (94%) Holtzhausen  10/14 (71%) Stoltz  8/9 (89%)		Blackman  14/15 (93%) Payne  11/17 (65%)

Ninth place match

12 April 2018 11:00 v t e	Report	Barbados	48–50	Scotland		Gold Coast Convention and Exhibition Centre Umpires: Helen George Maria van der Merwe Reserve umpire: Gary Burgess
		Payne  22/24 (92%) Blackman  15/17 (88%) Wharton  11/12 (92%)		Gallagher  35/37 (95%) Goodwin  13/21 (62%) Pettitt  2/5 (40%)

Shooting

Main article: Shooting at the 2018 Commonwealth Games

Barbados participated with 8 athletes (7 men and 1 woman).

Men

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

Women

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
		Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Michelle Elliot	Skeet	62	11	did not advance

Open

Athlete	Event	Day 1		Day 2		Day 3		Total
		Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Overall	Rank
Richard Arthur	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

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
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Shawn Simpson	Men's singles	Seth (GUY) L 1 - 3	did not advance
Meagan Best	Women's singles	Bye	Waters (ENG) L 0 - 3	did not advance
Amanda Haywood		Laing (CAY) W 3 - 2	Massaro (ENG) L 0 - 3	did not advance

Doubles

Athlete	Event	Group stage			Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Meagan Best Shawn Simpson	Mixed doubles	Mua / Henry (FIJ) W 2 - 0	Waters / Selby (ENG) L 0 - 2	2 Q	King / Coll (NZL) L 0 - 2	did not advance

Swimming

Main article: Swimming at the 2018 Commonwealth Games

Barbados participated with 1 athlete (1 man).

Men

Athlete	Event	Heat		Semifinal		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
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

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
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score
Kristian Doughty	Men's singles	Rameez (PAK) L 0 - 4	Mutua (KEN) W 4 - 2	2	did not advance
Mark Dowell		Taucoory (MRI) L 2 - 4	Howieson (SCO) L 0 - 4	3	did not advance
Tyrese Knight		Sam (GHA) L 3 - 4	Bryan (GUY) W 4 - 1	2	did not advance

Doubles

Athletes	Event	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final	Rank
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score
Kristian Doughty Marcus Smith	Men's doubles	Bye	Choong / Leong (MAS) L 0 - 3	did not advance
Mark Dowell Tyrese Knight		Bye	Hu / Yan (AUS) L 0 - 3	did not advance

Team

Athletes	Event	Group Stage			Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final	Rank
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score
Kristian Doughty Mark Dowell Tyrese Knight Marcus Smith	Men's team	Singapore (SGP) L 0 - 3	Mauritius (MRI) L 2 - 3	3	did not advance

Triathlon

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	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

Main articles: 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
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Romario Forde	Men's −77 kg	117	13	160	7	277	11
Ivorn McKnee	Men's −105 kg	145	6	did not finish

See also

• Barbados at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics

References

1. "71 Nations and Territories. 6 Continents. 2 Billion citizens. 1 commonwealth family". www.gc2018.com/. Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games Corporation. Archived from the original on 10 October 2016. Retrieved 8 October 2016.
2. Pavitt, Michael (15 March 2018). "Barbados named best flagbearer for Gold Coast 2018 Opening Ceremony". Insidethegames.biz. Dunsar Media. Retrieved 20 March 2018.
3. Pavitt, Michael (25 July 2017). "Uganda to make Commonwealth Games netball debut at Gold Coast 2018". Insidethegames.biz. Dunsar Media. Retrieved 28 July 2017.
4. Dakin, Rebecca (24 July 2017). "Competing nations announced for GC2018 Netball Competition". www.mygc.com.au/. myGC. Retrieved 28 July 2017.
5. "International Netball Federation: 2018 Commonwealth Games". Retrieved 17 April 2017.
6. "Qualification List of the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games" (PDF). www.iwf.net/. International Weightlifting Federation. March 2018. Retrieved 21 March 2018.