Frank Rutherford

Frank Rutherford
MBE
Personal information
Birth name	Frank Garfield Rutherford
Born	23 November 1964 (age 59)
Medal record
Athletics
Representing Bahamas
Olympic Games

Frank Garfield Rutherford, Jr.

World Championships in Athletics

.

He attended the

Computer Science. He became the first Bahamian to win more than three NCAA

triple jump championships.

Rutherford won the Bahamas its first World Championship medal with a bronze in the 1987 IAAF World Indoor Championships. He was the US Indoor Track and Field champion in the triple jump in 1991 and still currently holds the triple jump record for the University of Houston. He followed that with winning a silver medal at the 1992 World Cup in Havana, Cuba. His personal best was 17.41 metres, a Bahamian record that has later been beaten by Leevan Sands. Rutherford is considered the Olympic pioneer in the Bahamas because he was the first to win medals at the Olympic and World Championship levels. He is considered the Father of Track and Field in the Bahamas.

He started the Frank Rutherford Foundation, a

left tackle who attends the University of Miami

on football scholarship. More than 60 Bahamian young people have been helped by Rutherford and his foundation and all of them have graduated from college.

His wife, Milessa Rutherford, runs the family businesses and, along with his mother, administrates the Frank Rutherford Foundation. In the

Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) for service to sport.^[1] He is the cousin of fellow Bahamian track athlete Dennis Darling (husband to Tonique Williams-Darling).^[2]

International competitions

Year	Competition	Venue	Position	Event	Notes
Representing Bahamas
1987	World Indoor Championships	Indianapolis, United States	3rd	Triple jump
1987	Pan American Games	Indianapolis, United States	3rd	Triple jump
1992	Olympic Games	Barcelona, Spain	3rd	Triple jump
1996	Olympic Games	Atlanta, United States	11th	Triple jump	16.38 m
1999	Central American and Caribbean Championships	Bridgetown, Barbados	2nd	Triple jump

References

^ "No. 56799". The London Gazette (Supplement). 31 December 2002. pp. 30–31.
^ Frank Rutherford Archived January 18, 2015, at the Wayback Machine. Sports Reference. Retrieved on 2015-01-18.

[BS-1] "No. 56799". The London Gazette (Supplement). 31 December 2002. pp. 30–31.

[2] Frank Rutherford Archived January 18, 2015, at the Wayback Machine. Sports Reference. Retrieved on 2015-01-18.

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