The Barbados Olympic Association Inc. (BOA) is pleased to announce that the 2024 BOA Independence Invitational Games (BiiG) Beach Festival – A Celebration of Sports and Community at the Beach gets started this weekend. This multisport event captures the essence…
The Barbados Olympic Association Inc. (BOA) has announced a 30-member team to represent Barbados at the upcoming 19th Pan American Games in Santiago, Chile, from October 20 to November 5, 2023. The Barbadian athletes will be among more than 6,000…
The Barbados Olympic Association Inc. (BOA) announced that champion female boxer Kimberly Gittens and swimming stalwart Luis Sebastian Weekes would lead the country’s 2023 Central American and Caribbean (CAC) team as flag bearers. Chef de Mission Gail Craig-Archer made the announcement at a…
Barbados will field a team of 38 athletes for the inaugural Central American and Caribbean (CAC) Beach Games, scheduled for November 19-26, 2022, in Santa Marta, Colombia. They will be among over 800 athletes from 27 countries participating in 10…
There will be a strong contingent of athletes representing Barbados at the XXII Commonwealth Games, scheduled to be held between July 28 and August 8, 2022. Commonwealth Games Barbados has announced a 65-member squad of 42 females and 23 males,…
Barbados is set to compete in eight sporting disciplines at the inaugural Junior Pan Am Games, scheduled for November 25 – December 5, 2021, in Cali, Colombia. The Barbados Olympic Association Inc. (BOA) announced that 14 athletes have been selected…
The Barbados Olympic Association Inc. (BOA) announced that President Sandra Osborne will not be among the officials traveling to the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. The president’s absence will in no way affect the team as all the pre-games and on-the-ground preparations…
The full Barbados contingent (athletes & officials) to the Tokyo 2020 Olympics had their pre-games meeting on Tuesday. Apart from the usual protocol & games business discussions from the Chef de Mission, the team also heard from the Olympic Movement…
On Monday, July 6, the Barbados Olympic Association Inc. (BOA) held a media conference at its Wildey Headquarters to announce the official team to the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. The team comprises athletes Shane Brathwaite – 110m Hurdles, Mario Burke –…
• First look at the full details for each of the 286 sessions of elite sport that will take place next year at Birmingham 2022• The ‘Games for everyone’ will have tickets starting from just £8 for under 16s and…
Emily Odwin continued her run of victories yesterday, June 8th, when she followed up her back-to-back victories on the Hurricane Junior Golf Tour with a stunning win in the US girls’ Junior qualifier played at Hawk Pointe G.C. in New…
Today five of Barbados’ junior wrestlers left the island bound for Mexico to compete in the UWW Americas Cadet & Junior Championships. The Barbados Olympic Association Inc. is proud to support the Barbados Wrestling Association for this competition which is…
Australia, India, New Zealand, Pakistan, South Africa and a country from the West Indies join England in qualifying for Birmingham 2022; Qualifier to determine final participant Cricket is the first discipline to announce qualifying teams for the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth…
In keeping with the Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) strategic priorities to ensure transparency, integrity and good governance at every level, the Federation has announced the formation of its new Ethics Commission with the first three members appointed. Following on from…
THE INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE (IOC) AND THE INTERNATIONAL PARALYMPIC COMMITTEE (IPC) WERE TODAY INFORMED BY THE JAPANESE PARTIES IN THE FIVE-PARTIES MEETING ABOUT THEIR CONCLUSION REGARDING OVERSEAS SPECTATORS AT THE OLYMPIC AND PARALYMPIC GAMES TOKYO 2020 THIS SUMMER. FOR THE…