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Martin Bernard

Martyn Bernard
Commonwealth Games 2014 - Athletics Day 4 (14798420381).jpg
Martyn Bernard in 2014
Medal record
Representing  Great Britain
Men's athletics
European Athletics Championships
Bronze medal – third place 2010 Barcelona High jump
European Indoor Championships
Bronze medal – third place 2007 Birmingham High jump
Commonwealth Games
Silver medal – second place 2006 Melbourne High jump
Continental Cup
Bronze medal – third place 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. In 2012 he became an honorary director of the Film production Company, "21st Century Filmworks Ltd", A Fucilla Production Company, and coproducer of the film “Fields of Gold” currently in pre production stage.

He is cousin to singer and Marks and Spencers model VV Brown and older brother of Luke Bernard.



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