Martin Jensen (3 January 1942 – 12 February 2016) was a Norwegian

triple jump The triple jump, sometimes referred to as the hop, step and jump or the hop, skip and jump, is a track and field event, similar to the long jump. As a group, the two events are referred to as the "horizontal jumps". The competitor runs down th ...

er. He hailed from

Askøy Askøy is a municipality in Vestland county, Norway. The island municipality is located in the Midhordland district of the county, sitting in a large group of islands immediately northwest of the city of Bergen. The administrative centre of the ...

and represented the local sports club Ask IL, later

TIF Viking Turn & Idrettsforeningen Viking is a Norwegian sports club from Bergenhus, Bergen. It has sections for gymnastics, athletics, race walking, orienteering, volleyball, handball and skiing. It was founded on 17 May 1892 as ''IK Viking'', but later ...

in Bergen,

IL i BUL Idrottslaget i Bondeungdomslaget i Oslo (also BUL, Oslo) is a sports club in Oslo, Norway, founded on 8 January 1913. It is one of several branches of Bondeungdomslaget i Oslo, a local chapter of Noregs Mållag and Noregs Ungdomslag. IL i BUL ha ...

and

IK Tjalve Idrettsklubben Tjalve is a Norway, Norwegian athletics (sport), athletics club from Oslo, founded on 27 December 1890. It is named after Þjálfi in Norse mythology. It is one of the most prominent athletics clubs in Norway, and numerous members h ...

in Oslo. He competed at the

1966 European Indoor Games The 1966 European Indoor Games were the first edition of what later became the European Athletics Indoor Championships. These games took place on 27 March 1966 at Westfalenhalle, Dortmund, a city of West Germany. It was the only edition held on a s ...

and the

1966 European Athletics Championships The 8th European Athletics Championships were held from 30 August to 4 September 1966 in the Stadium Puskás Ferenc, Nép Stadium in Budapest, Hungarian People's Republic, Hungary. Contemporaneous reports on the event were given in the Glasgow Hera ...

without reaching the final. Domestically, Jensen became Norwegian champion in 1961, 1964, 1965, 1966 and 1969. His personal best jump was 16.27 metres, achieved in 1965. He was a Norwegian record holder, being the first in that country to break the 16-metre barrier. His main domestic competitors were

Odd Bergh Odd Bergh (28 June 1937 – 13 January 2023) was a Norwegian athlete who specialized in the triple jump and long jump. Bergh finished seventh in the triple jump final at the 1962 European Championships with 15.52 metres. He never competed in an ...

and

Kristen Fløgstad Kristen Fløgstad (born 11 April 1947) is a former Norwegian athlete from Søgne in Vest-Agder. He represented Kristiansands IF. He won the national championships in triple jump ten times (1968, 1970–71, 1973–76, 1979–80 and 1982) ...

, who eventually broke Jensen's record. Jensen also had 6.82 in the

long jump The long jump is a track and field event in which athletes combine speed, strength and agility in an attempt to leap as far as possible from a takeoff point. Along with the triple jump, the two events that measure jumping for distance as a gr ...

, achieved in 1964.

References

1942 births 2016 deaths People from Askøy Norwegian male triple jumpers Sportspeople from Vestland {{Norway-athletics-bio-stub