Barbadian Johnathan Austin is one special young man. Now 19 years old, he has spent a large part of his young life battling a long term chronic condition called Gastroparesis, in which the stomach cannot empty in the normal way. He once lived with a gastric pacemaker in his stomach and has

Welcome to the 25th anniversary edition of Sporting Barbados! One year delayed due to Covid, but back - bigger - and better than ever.
 
My husband came up with the idea of Sporting Barbados. He visited Barbados from Northern Ireland in 1984 - before the days of the ‘world wide web’ - on a cricket tour. He was ‘bowled’ over by the

The Barbados Rally Club (BRC) has joined motor sport fans the world over to mourn the passing of American motor sport icon Ken Block, who died in a snowmobile accident in Wasatch County, Utah, yesterday (January 2) at the age of 55. A statement from Hoonigan said: "It's with our deepest regrets that we can confirm that Ken Block passed away in

The Barbados Rally Club (BRC) has changed the dates of next year’s 33rd edition of its premier event to avoid a direct clash with a number of international rallies including rounds of the World Rally Championship and Motorsport UK British Rally Championship. Rally Barbados 2023 will now run on June 10/11, with the Rally Show and King of the

Barbadian Calem Maloney is the new Caribbean Junior Karting Champion. After three days and 12 hard-fought races at Bushy Park Barbados over the weekend (November 4-6), he defeated Trinidad & Tobago’s Rylie Ramroop by a margin of just nine points, with Jamaica’s Zander Williams a further six behind. The lone female in the 16-strong field of

The premier event on the Barbados Federation of Island Triathletes calendar was contested by 80 athletes, more than half of which flew in from abroad to compete at the 32nd National Triathlon Championships on Sunday, October 23rd, 2022. Held at the Brandons Beach and the Mighty Grynner Highway, several seasoned triathletes and persons bold

Seventeen karters aged from 11 to 17 from Barbados, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago will face off at Bushy Park Barbados next month (November 4-6) in the second Caribbean Junior Karting Academy Trophy (CJKAT). Funded by the Federation Internationale de l’Automobile’s (FIA) Sport Grant Programme, it will be contested by a quality field selected

BFIT has launched a funding program aimed at assisting triathletes who are at various stages of development. “The return to competition post COVID has brought race opportunities back online in the region and internationally.  After two years of uncertainty and little racing there is a need to invest and reinvigorate the development pipeline,

Trinidad & Tobago’s Zachary Boodram, Fyzool Madan and Ravi Singh will compete in the Radical Caribbean Cup (RCC) for the first time this weekend (October 8/9) as a record-breaking grid assembles for round three at the Fast Parts Caribbean Circuit Racing Invitational. Competing on home ground, they will line up with fellow-countryman and RCC

Trinidad & Tobago’s Zachary Boodram, Fyzool Madan and Ravi Singh will compete in the Radical Caribbean Cup (RCC) for the first time this weekend (October 8/9) as a record-breaking grid assembles for round three at the Fast Parts Caribbean Circuit Racing Invitational. Competing on home ground, they will line up with fellow-countryman and RCC

The Barbados Rally Club’s (BRC) off-road navigational fraternity will remember one of the Club’s stalwarts on Sunday (September 18) when the fourth round of the Chefette MudDogs Safari Championship is named in honour of Philip McConney, whose sudden passing in July was a shock to the whole community

wo class wins in the recent Autumn Double Header Sprint mean Modified 1 (M1) class leader Edward Corbin will head into October’s final round of the Barbados Rally Club (BRC) Driver’s and Class Championships leading the Champion Driver title chase. With a total of 113 points, he has a five-point cushion over Ryan Wood, who leads Clubman 2 (C2),

On Saturday July 10, 2022, Rugby Barbados will start the Get Into Rugby programme for children who are under the age of 11 years. This Tag Rugby session will run from 10am to 11am every Saturday at the Historic Garrison Savannah. This is an internationally recognized and certified programme aimed at introducing children to rugby, using a safe

Barbados will compete in the second edition of the FIA Motorsport Games to be held in France in October, where up to 80 National Sporting Authorities of the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile will be chasing gold, silver and bronze medals. The Barbados Motoring Federation (BMF) confirmed today (Wednesday) that Leon Sealy will represent

The Barbados Football Association (BFA) last week showed its support for diversity in football by donating goal bars, nets, and protective barriers to a regional blind and visually impaired football workshop hosted by the National United Society of the Blind (NUSB) in partnership with the Blind Football Committee of Barbados.
 
In

Bridgetown, Barbados – The Barbados Football Association (BFA) is launching the official return to local football with two highly-anticipated concurrent tournaments – the Republic Cup and the Women’s Super League.
 
Set to kick off on the 28th August and run until 20th November this year, both tournaments will culminate in

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – The Cricket West Indies (CWI) Senior Men’s Selection Panel today announced changes to the West Indies squad for the three-match CG United One-Day International (ODI) Series against New Zealand which starts tomorrow on Wednesday 17 August. All three ODIs will be day/night matches played under floodlights at Kensington Oval

Competitors in the R5 Rally Championship presented by First Citizens kick off the second half of the new-for-2022 series this weekend (August 20/21) with an action-packed programme of back-to-back events at opposite ends of the island. Saturday’s Motoring Club Barbados Inc (MCBI) Full Throttle in St Philip will be followed by the Barbados Rally

The FEI Dressage World Challenge was held this weekend at the Congo Road Equestrian Center.  The best local dressage riders presented themselves to FEI judges; Jeanne McDonald from Pennsylvania and Omar Zayrik from Mexico for the opportunity to compete on an international scale for Barbados. 
 
The Barbados FEI 2022 Team is:

The dates for the Festival are August 21 to 27, 2022. All matches will be played at the Wildey Hockey Turf in the Sir Garfield Sobers Sports Complex. 
 
Matches will be on from 11:00 a.m., with the last match of the day starting at 5:30 p.m.
 
There will be no matches on Sunday August 21 and Thursday, August 25. The semi

Peg Farm and Nature Reserve hosted the 2021 version of the BAR 5K Trail Mix, sponsored by the Amarone Charitable Trust. This new venue boasted way more trail, hardly any traffic along the route and all the convenience afforded to the athletes by Peg’s established infrastructure. 
 
‘Wait,’ you say, ‘weren’t we in the middle of COVID

This weekend saw 35 of the best Dressage riders turn out at Congo Road Stables in St Philip for the annual Cargo BGI/Southern Palms Caribbean Equestrian Association Dressage Challenge to via for places on the Barbados Team representing the island in the overall Caribbean competition.
 
International Judge, Cesar Torrente said ‘I am

About Run Barbados 
Run Barbados has been a staple on the Barbados calendar of events since its inception in 1983. The 2022 event will offer 2 days of exciting events for the whole family. 
The race routes are all on the spectacular East Coast of Barbados. Fluid stations and toilets along the route as well as Caribbean music! 

Meet Barbara Armstrong - she has just completed her 1000th dive with Scott at Scott’s Scuba Shop in Little Good Harbour, St Peter. Barbara started the sport at 50 when she was a grandmother. Her husband, Keith, had been diving for years. She loved it right away! “It’s so peaceful down there and calm, just beautiful,”says Barbara. This fearless

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