| "> | | | | and tack & field (4). Like many Latin American nations, |
| Road to London 2012! | | | | Belize did not win medals in Los Angeles. |
| Belize | | | | Panama 1970 |
| Did you know- After its independence, on September | | | | Did you know- For the first time, British Honduras, |
| 21, 1981, British Honduras became Belize and has | | | | together with Dutch Guiana (now Suriname), sent |
| competed in the international events -for example | | | | athletes to the Central American and Caribbean |
| Olympics, World Championships, World University | | | | Games in Panama City in 1970. |
| Games, Pan American Games and Central American | | | | Softball |
| and Caribbean Games- under that name. Like many | | | | Did you know- Like in the United States of America |
| countries and dependencies of the world, this | | | | and Canada, softball is one of the most popular sports |
| English-speaking nation, located in Central America, has | | | | in Belize, a democratic society since 1981. The national |
| not won an Olympic medal. | | | | team won the gold medal in women's softball at the |
| Boxing | | | | 1974 Central American & Caribbean Games in Santo |
| Did you know- By 1983, Belize's Olympic Committee | | | | Domingo (Dominican Republic). This English-speaking |
| sent three boxers to the Pan American Games in | | | | nation earned the gold medal at the expense of |
| Caracas, Venezuela. These athletes were Norman | | | | Puerto Rico and the Netherlands Antilles. Subsequently, |
| Gabourel, Ashley Rivers, and Clarence Slusher. | | | | the nation won the bronze medal at the VIII Pan |
| However, none of them won Pan American medals. | | | | American Games in San Juan de Puerto Rico -the first |
| Munich 1972 | | | | medal in the history of Belizean sport-- and the silver |
| Did you know- By the early 1970s, British Honduras | | | | medal in the 1982 Central American & Caribbean |
| -modern-day Belize-sent a team of two athletes to | | | | Games in Havana (Cuba). In Puerto Rico, Belize |
| Munich (West Germany) to compete in the Summer | | | | defeated the United States, one of the world's most |
| Olympic Games. The Olympic delegation compete in | | | | respected teams. In the following year, in 1983, in |
| athletics and shooting. | | | | Caracas (Venezuela), Belize also won a Pan |
| Olympic Games | | | | American bronze medal. However, the national team |
| Did you know- Between July 28 and August 12, 1984, | | | | did not qualify to the Olympics Summer. |
| Belize, Britain's last colony in Latin America, sent a | | | | Winnipeg 1967 |
| team of 11 athletes, none of them women, to the | | | | Did you know- Between July 24 and August 6, |
| Summer Olympic Games in Los Angeles (California, | | | | 1967British Honduras made its continental debut in the |
| USA). The athletes competed in boxing (1), cycling (6), | | | | Pan American Games in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. |