Carl Oliver

Carl Oliver
Medal record
Men's athletics
Representing the  Bahamas
Olympic Games
Bronze medal – third place 2000 Sydney 4×400 m relay[a]
Commonwealth Games
Bronze medal – third place 2002 Manchester 4×400 m relay
World Championships in Athletics
Gold medal – first place 2001 Edmonton 4×400 m relay[b]
Bronze medal – third place 2003 Paris 4×400 m relay[b]

Carl Oliver Jr. (born 30 January 1969) is a Bahamian former track and field sprinter who specialised in the 400 metres. He is the current secretary of the Bahamas Association of Athletic Associations. His greatest achievements on the track came with the Bahamian 4×400 metres relay team. He was a bronze medallist in the relay at the 2000 Summer Olympics and was also a finalist at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics and the 1999 World Championships in Athletics. He helped set a national record of 3:02.85 minutes at the 1995 World Championships in Athletics.

After 2000 he was mainly the country's back-up runner for the heats. He qualified the Bahamas for the finals at the 2001 World Championships in Athletics where they became world champions and assisted the team to the finals at the 2002 Commonwealth Games and the 2003 World Championships in Athletics, where his compatriots took bronze in his absence. He was a one-time Bahamian champion in the 400 m and had a personal best of 45.69 seconds.


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