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Martyn Bernard in 2014 | ||
Medal record | ||
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Representing Great Britain | ||
Men's athletics | ||
European Athletics Championships | ||
2010 Barcelona | High jump | |
European Indoor Championships | ||
2007 Birmingham | High jump | |
Representing England | ||
Commonwealth Games | ||
2006 Melbourne | High jump | |
Representing Europe | ||
Continental Cup | ||
2010 Split | High jump |
Martyn John Bernard (born 15 December 1984 in Wakefield, United Kingdom) is a British athlete, competing in high jump.
Bernard has won a silver medal at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne and a bronze medal in the 2007 European Athletics Indoor Championships.
In Osaka in 2007 he set an outdoor best of 2.29 in qualifying, and in the final after clearing 2.21 passed all the way up to 2.33, where he failed twice at 2.35. The reason he did this was, that he was injured and had to limit his jumps.
Bernard represented Great Britain at the 2008 Summer Olympics in the high jump. He qualified for the final along with two other Britons with a jump of 2.29.
Away from athletics, Martyn graduated from Liverpool John Moores University in 2007 with a 2:1 degree in psychology, he has recently started a law degree and hopes to pursue this as a career, when he retires form athletics. A natural entertainer Martyn is also very well known for providing spectators with his version of Gene Kelly’s ‘Singing in the Rain’ during the European Championships in Barcelona in 2010.
He is cousin to singer and Marks and Spencers model VV Brown and older brother of Luke Bernard.
Year | Competition | Venue | Position | Notes | |
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Representing Great Britain and England | |||||
2002 | World Junior Championships | Kingston, Jamaica | 10th | 2.14 m | |
2003 | European Junior Championships | Tampere, Finland | 12th | 2.15 m | |
2005 | European U23 Championships | Erfurt, Germany | 11th | 2.21 m | |
Universiade | Izmir, Turkey | 3rd | 2.23 m | ||
2006 | Commonwealth Games | Melbourne, Australia | 2nd | 2.26 m | |
European Championships | Gothenburg, Sweden | 14th (q) | 2.23 m | ||
2007 | European Indoor Championships | Birmingham, United Kingdom | 3rd | 2.29 m | |
Universiade | Bangkok, Thailand | 5th | 2.23 m | ||
World Championships | Osaka, Japan | 14th | 2.21 m | ||
2008 | Olympic Games | Beijing, China | 9th | 2.25 m | |
2009 | European Indoor Championships | Turin, Italy | 16th (q) | 2.22 m | |
2010 | European Championships | Barcelona, Spain | 3rd | 2.29 m | |
Commonwealth Games | Delhi, India | 16th (q) | 2.13 m | ||
2011 | World Championships | Daegu, South Korea | 29th (q) | 2.21 m | |
2014 | Commonwealth Games | Glasgow, United Kingdom | 5th | 2.21 m |
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