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he Bahamas’ swim team closed out their appearance at the second Junior Pan American Games in Asuncion, Paraguay, with a sixth-place finish in the men’s 4 x 100 metre medley relay. Coming off their Bahamas national record-breaking performance in the preliminaries earlier in the day at the Paraguay Aquatic Center, the quartet of Nigel Forbes, Emmanuel Gadson, Lamar Taylor and Marvin Johnson clocked three minutes and 45.64 seconds in the final last night. Argentina took the gold in a games’ record-breaking time of 3:36.53 in the event that featured a leg of the butterfly, the backstroke, the breaststroke and the freestyle respectively.
Team Bahamas qualified for the final in their preliminary race with their national record-breaking performance of 3:45.26. They were the third fastest team behind Brazil and Argentina. But they needed to produce another national record to get on the podium and fell short. It was the second national record for The Bahamas with Taylor lowering his own 100m freestyle mark for the team’s first medal - a bronze - on Tuesday. Taylor, the 2024 Olympic Games and 2025 World Championship competitor, came back on Wednesday and picked up his second medal - a silver - in the 50m freestyle. The co-flag carrier during the opening
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ceremonies of the games with cyclist Kami Roach added his pair of medals to the bronze that judoka Xavon Johnson got on the first day of competition in the men’s -66 kilogram category. Swimming and judo join cycling and archery, which have now finished their competition at the games. The Bahamas now has two disciplines left to compete. Joshua Higgins will start competing in sailing on Saturday, while the four athletes Olympic quarter-miler Zion Miller, javelin thrower Taysha Stubbs, triple jumper Antone Smith and discusshot putter Annae Mackey will start competing on Monday. The games will conclude on Saturday, August 23.
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SPLASH IN HISTORY: Olympian Lamar Taylor proudly holds his silver medal he won in the 50 metre freestyle final at the 2nd Junior Pan American Games in Asuncion, Paraguay.
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KNOWLES: LADIES’ 'ƌŽƵƉƐ TEAM ‘IS LOOKING ; Ϳ;DͿ GOOD’ By BRENT STUBBS Chief Sports Editor bstubbs@tribunemedia.net
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AS a former veteran player of the men’s national team, Renaldo Knowles said he knows that they have assembled a solid women’s national team for the Caribbean Volleyball Championships. Knowles will take over as the head coach for the ladies as they compete in the championships starting this weekend at the Kendal Isaacs Gymnasium. A total of five visiting teams will join The Bahamas to participate in
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IN a nail-biting finale at the Andre Rodgers National Baseball Stadium on Wednesday, the Reapers Baseball Club won the New Providence Amateur Baseball Summer League title with a hard-fought 4–2 victory over the Rebels in Game 5 of the championship series. The game began as a pitchers’ duel, with both teams tied at 1–1 through four innings. However, the fifth inning proved to be the turning point. The Reapers seized their opportunity and mounted a rally, plating
WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS: The Reapers Baseball Club won the New Providence Amateur Baseball Summer League title with a hard-fought 4–2 victory over the Rebels last night. Photo: Chappell Whyms Jr
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COACH Glen Rolle likes what he has seen in the Bahamas men’s national team going into the Caribbean Volleyball Championships this weekend. The Bahamas will play host to six other teams from Jamaica, Suriname, Barbados, Trinidad & Tobago, Curacao and Guadeloupe when the championships get underway at the Kendal
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Track and field team SPRINTS IN THE RUN-UP ϭϬ ϭϭ͗ϬϬĂŵJunior Ϯ ϯLA’S 2028 OLYMPICS Y& D TO ready for the >ŽƐĞƌ D ϳ >ŽƐĞƌ D ϴ ϵ ϭ͗ϬϬƉŵ ϱͬϲ t Pan American ϭϬ ϯ͗ϬϬƉŵ Games ϭ tŝŶŶĞƌ D ϳͬϴ ^& t Ͳ ƵŐͲϮϱ By AMY TAXIN Associated Press
By BRENT STUBBS Chief Sports Editor bstubbs@tribunemedia.net WITH the success so far achieved by the judo and swimming teams at the Junior Pan American Games, head coach Daron Lightbourne said the fourmember track team is eager to go to Asuncion, Paraguay, and make their presence felt. Lightbourne will be leaving town today to Paraguay with Olympic quarter-miler Zion Miller, triple jumper Antone Smith, javelin thrower Taysha Stubbs and discus/ shot putter Annae Mackey as they get set for the start of their competition on Monday. “It’s a fairly young team, which is under-23,” Lightbourne said. “They are some of the top athletes in the country, but they are coming off a long season. “They are also preparing to go to college when the games are finished, so I know they are going to go there and give it their all in their last international meet for the year. So I’m excited for them and will be giving them all of the support that they need.”
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Mackey, the 18-year-old team captain of the CARIFTA team in Trinidad & Tobago where she won a pair of medals, will be competing in the women’s discus where she has a lifetime best of 176-feet, 6-inches or 53.87 metres and the shot put with 17.14 metres. She will be heading to the University of Louisville when she’s done. Miller, the 18-year-old member of last year’s Olympic team for the mixed 4 x 400m relay, is entered in the men’s 400m with his best of 46.51. He will go to South Plains College. Smith, a newcomer on the international scene at the age of 19, is competing
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LONG BEACH, Calif. (AP) — It’s a beach run, a coastal row and a music party rolled into one, and it’s about to become an Olympic event. On a sunny Southern California morning, nearly two dozen athletes gathered to try their hand at beach sprints at a camp run by USRowing in Long Beach, not far from where the inaugural Olympic races will be held in 2028.
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Many were long-time flatwater rowers who wanted to take a shot at something new. Others were already hooked on the quick-paced and unpredictable race format and have been training with an eye on LA28. Two at a time, athletes run to the waterline, hop in a boat, row a slalom course, then turn around and return to shore to jump out and dash across the sand to hit a finish-line buzzer — all in about three minutes.
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in the men’s triple jump with a best of 52-1 3/4 (15.89m). He is off to the University of Arizona. Stubbs, the 17-year-old CARIFTA record holder, is competing in her specialty in the javelin with her best heave of 167-1 (50.94m). She will then head off to the University of Nebraska. With The Bahamas already on the chart with three medals, two from Olympic swimmer Lamar Taylor in the men’s 50m freestyle with a silver and a bronze in the 100m freestyle and Xavion Johnson with a bronze in judo, Lightbourne said the track team hopes to add to the final tally. “I think they’re
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going to go out there and compete for The Bahamas and be able to bring back a medal,” Lightbourne. “They’re veterans in their own rights and so they’re going there with the mindset to represent The Bahamas to the best of their abilities.” Lightbourne said it’s the hope that The Bahamas will end up with some qualifiers for the Pan American Games that will be staged in Lima, Peru, in 2027. The track team will be the last of the Bahamian contingent to compete in Asuncion. Judo, cycling and swimming competed during the first week of competition. Sailing will be on tap this weekend.
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BASKETBALL BBSF TOURNAMENT THE Bahamas Baptist Sports Federation is scheduled to hold a meeting 6pm Thursday, August 28 at its office upstairs in the Bahamas Baptist College, Jean Street, for all churches interested in participating in the 2025 Basketball Tournament. The tournament is scheduled for the
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weekend of September 26-27 at the CI Gibson Gymnasium for the 12-and under and open divisions. Each team will consist of 12 players. Trophies sponsored by AID will be distributed to the champions and runnersup in each category as well as medals for the third-place teams. Interested persons can
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