General Post Office releases Tokyo Olympic stamps

TOKYO, Japan – In celebration of Bahamian athletes at the Tokyo Olympic Games, The Bahamas’ General Post Office has released special commemorative Olympic stamps that are already in circulation.

The Games of the 32nd Olympiad wrapped up on Sunday in Tokyo, Japan, and The Bahamas closed out competition with two gold medals and a tie for 42nd overall in the medal standings.

Both gold medalists are featured on the stamps – Shaunae Miller-Uibo on the 15 cents piece and Steven Gardiner on the 25 cents piece.

Additionally, Tynia Gaither is on the 50 cents stamp, high jumper Jamal Wilson is featured on the 65 cents stamp and swimmer Joanna Evans is featured on the 70 cents piece. Finally, Pedrya Seymour is on the one dollar stamp.

For the first time ever, The Bahamas won two individual gold medals at the Olympics.

Miller-Uibo made history at the Tokyo Olympics, becoming the first Bahamian to win two individual medals and two individual gold medals, at the Olympics.

She is just the second woman to ever repeat as Olympic champion in the women’s 400m, joining Marie-José Pérec, of France, who accomplished the feat in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1996. Miller-Uibo also joined Pérec as the only woman in history to win multiple Olympic titles in the women’s 400m.

Attempting the 200-400m double, she advanced to the 200m final as well, but hamstring discomfort forced her to shut it down in that race.

Gardiner became The Bahamas’ first Olympic 

champion in the men’s 400m and is the second Bahamian to win individual World and Olympic titles back-to-back, joining Tonique Williams who accomplished the feat at the Olympics in Athens, Greece, in 2004 and at the World Championships in Athletics in Helsinki, Finland, in 2005.

For the second straight Olympics, The Bahamas had a finalist in the women’s 100m hurdles and a sixth place finish. That 

distinction was earned by Devynne Charlton. Seymour was the sixth place finisher in that event in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 2016.

Seymour, Gaither, Anthonique Strachan and Alonzo Russell all made the semifinals of their respective events, and high jumpers Donald Thomas and Wilson, sprinter Samson Colebrooke and the young ladies on the women’s 4x400m relay team – Brianne Bethel, Doneisha Anderson, Megan Moss and Strachan – all gave spirited efforts.

The Bahamas’ two swimmers, Joanna Evans and Izaak Bastian, swam in two individual events each. Evans narrowly missed advancing in both, finishing 13th overall in the women’s 400m free for the second straight Olympics and 18th overall in the 200m free.

With COVID-19 forcing the postponement of the Tokyo Olympics by a year, the next Olympic cycle is only in three years.

The Games of the 33rd Olympiad is set for July 26 to August 11, 2024, in Paris, France.

With the Tokyo Olympics now over, the athletes now return to their respective destinations. Bahamian athletes will head to different locations and according to the Bahamas Olympic Committee (BOC), celebration plans will be announced in the coming weeks.

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