A team of 20 athletes, including Bermuda’s “Three Musketeers” – Brian Wellman, Troy Douglas and Clarence “Nicky” Saunders – represented the island at the Barcelona Games in 1992.
The official Olympic site notes: “In the years that followed the 1988 Games, the world witnessed important political changes. Apartheid was abolished in South Africa, which allowed the country to participate in the Olympic Games again, for the first time since 1960. Then there was the fall of the Berlin Wall and the reunification of West and East Germany, as well as North and South Yemen. Communism was wiped out in the Soviet Union and the USSR was divided into 15 separate countries.
“At the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, the independent teams of Estonia and Latvia made their first apparition since 1936, and Lithuania sent its first team since 1928. The other ex-Soviet republics participated as a ‘unified team’, although the winners were honoured under the flags of their own republics.
“For the first time since 1972, the Games were boycott-free, due to important global political changes.”
- Location: Barcelona, Spain
- Athletes: 9356
- Teams: 169
- Bermuda athletes: 20
- Sports Bermuda competed in: Athletics, Equestrian, Sailing & Swimming
- Athletics: Troy Douglas, Clarence Saunders, Brian Wellman, and Dawnette Douglas
- Equestrian: Suzanne Dunkley, Nicola DeSousa, and Mary Jane Tumbridge
- Sailing: Peter Bromby, Paul Fisher, Reid Kempe, Jay Kampe, Blythe Walker, Ray DeSilva, and Paula Lewin
- Swimming: Chris Flook, Jenny Smatt, Mike Cash, Ian Raynor, Geri Mewett, and Craig Morbey
