Taahira Butterfield

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Taahira Naeema Butterfield is a Bermudan sprinter, who won two gold medals at the 2015 Island Games, and two silver medals at the 2017 Island Games. She has also competed at the CARIFTA Games, as well as the Central American and Caribbean Junior Championships in Athletics and the World Youth Championships in Athletics. She attends University at Albany, SUNY, where she competes as part of the Albany Great Danes.

Athletics career

Taahira Butterfield was born on 5 October 2000,{{cite web|title=Taahira Butterfield|url=http://islandgames2017results.com/competitor.aspx?RegID=40844|publisher=2017 Island Games|accessdate=2 November 2017}} and raised in Devonshire Parish, Bermuda. She attended Cedarbridge Academy, and then moved to the United States to study at the University at Albany, SUNY in New York. Butterfield competed for Bermuda at the CARIFTA Games from 2011 onwards, and at the 2012 Central American and Caribbean Junior Championships in Athletics in San Salvador, El Salvador.

She travelled to Ukraine to compete at the 2013 World Youth Championships in Athletics. As a result of this, while at CedarBridge Academy, she was named senior girl's winner of the Denton Hurdle Award in Bermuda. Outside of Athletics, she has also competed in netball in the national under-18s team.{{cite news|last1=Trott|first1=Lawrence|title=Butterfield and Smith rewarded for hard work|url=http://www.royalgazette.com/article/20140620/SPORT/140629991|accessdate=2 November 2017|work=The Royal Gazette|date=20 June 2014}} She competes in athletics for Albany Great Danes, the University's sports team.{{cite web|title=Taahira Butterfield|url=http://www.ualbanysports.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=15800&ATCLID=209775766|publisher=Great Danes|accessdate=2 November 2017}}

Butterfield competed for Bermuda at the 2015 Island Games in Jersey in the 100 and 200 meters, winning the gold medal in both events.{{cite news|title=Bermuda Wins 8 More Island Games Medals|url=http://bernews.com/2015/07/bermuda-win-gold-silver-200m-sprint/|accessdate=2 November 2017|work=Bernews|date=3 July 2015}} At the 2017 Island Games in Gotland, Sweden, she competed in the same events again, this time finishing in second place each time winning two silver medals.{{cite news|last1=Wright|first1=Stephen|title=Butterfield wins second silver in Gotland|url=http://www.royalgazette.com/sport/article/20170630/butterfield-wins-second-silver-in-gotland|accessdate=2 November 2017|work=The Royal Gazette|date=30 June 2017}}

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