Martyn Bernard Explained

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.

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

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.

Competition record

Representing and
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	bgcolor=silver	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

Personal bests

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