Obadele Thompson won a Bronze medal at the Sydney Olympics

Barbados has had one individual Olympic medallist. Obadele Thompson placed third in the 100m at the Sydney Olympics securing a Bronze medal.

The first time Barbados competed in the Olympics as an individual nation was at the 1968 games in Mexico City.

GUYANA

Guyana has won a single medal, a bronze in boxing won by Michael Anthony at the 1980 Summer Olympics.

Guyana can also lay partial claim to Maritza Correia, who was the first black American woman to compete for the U.S. Olympic swim team. She was born in Puerto Rico to Guyanese parents. The team won a silver medal in the 4x100m freestyle relay Women.

SURINAME

Suriname continues to celebrate Anthony Nesty’s Olympic Gold medal.

Not only did he win gold in the 1988 Seoul Olympics, he did it in swimming beating the favourite Matt Biondi of the US - one of only two swimmers (Mark Spitz being the other) who have won seven medals in one Olympics and eleven career medals.

Although competing for Suriname, Nesty was born in Trinidad but migrated to Suriname at the age of 3.

He also won a bronze medal at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics.