SPORTS APPAREL BRAND Puma has released the designs for the Barbados athletics team for the 2016 Rio Olympic Games.
It is the first of three major games at which the company will be sponsoring Barbados after recently inking a deal with the Athletics Association of Barbados.
Puma will also outfit Barbadian athletes at the next two editions of the IAAF World Championships.
With this deal, the company also expands its reach into the Caribbean market.
Barbados join Jamaica, long regarded as the flagship team, Cuba, Grenada, Dominican Republic and The Bahamas under the brand.
Pascal Rolling Puma’s Head of Sports Marketing for Running said: “Barbados is another Caribbean country where the spirit and appeal of track and field really sweeps across the island. There is a passion for the sport there that connects it with the other federations we have under contract and it’s a great addition for us. We’re very happy to have signed this deal.”
Puma already outfits Barbados’ World Indoor 60 metre bronze medallist Ramon Gittens who has qualified for both the men’s 100 and 200 metres in Rio. (PR/SAT)
