Martyn John Bernard (born 15 December 1984 in

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) 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.

2008 Summer Olympics

Bernard represented

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in the high jump. He qualified for the final along with two other Britons with a jump of 2.29.

Personal life

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

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and older brother of Luke Bernard.

Competition record

Personal bests

*High jump, outdoor: 2.29 (2007) *High jump, indoor: 2.30 (2007)

References

* 1984 births Living people English male high jumpers British male high jumpers Olympic male high jumpers Olympic athletes of Great Britain Athletes (track and field) at the 2008 Summer Olympics Commonwealth Games silver medallists for England Commonwealth Games medallists in athletics Athletes (track and field) at the 2006 Commonwealth Games Athletes (track and field) at the 2010 Commonwealth Games Athletes (track and field) at the 2014 Commonwealth Games Universiade medalists in athletics (track and field) Universiade bronze medalists for Great Britain Competitors at the 2007 Summer Universiade Medalists at the 2005 Summer Universiade European Athletics Championships medalists British Athletics Championships winners AAA Championships winners Alumni of Liverpool John Moores University Black British sportsmen Medallists at the 2006 Commonwealth Games {{UK-athletics-bio-stub