Martyn Bernard

Martyn Bernard
Medal record
Competitor for  Great Britain
Men's athletics
European Athletics Championships
Bronze 2010 Barcelona High jump
European Indoor Championships
Bronze 2007 Birmingham High jump
Commonwealth Games
Silver 2006 Melbourne High jump
Continental Cup
Bronze 2010 Split High jump

Martyn John Bernard (born December 15, 1984 in Wakefield, United Kingdom) is a British athlete competing in high jump.

He 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.

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2008 Summer Olympics

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.

Personal life

Bernard attended Outwood Grange College, Wakefield before moving on to study psychology at Liverpool John Moores University from 2004 to 2007. He is cousin to singer and Marks and Spencers model VV Brown.

Personal bests

  • HJ 2.29 (2007)
  • Indoor: HJ 2.30 (2007)

He trained at Thornes Park as a child

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