Martina at the 2012 European Athletics Championships in Helsinki
Personal information
Nationality
Dutch
Born
(1984-07-03) 3 July 1984 (age 39) Willemstad, Netherlands Antilles
Height
1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Weight
74 kg (163 lb)
Sport
Country
Netherlands
Sport
Athletics
Event(s)
100 metres, 200 metres
Achievements and titles
Personal bests
100 m: 9.91 NR (London 2012)
200 m: 19.81 NR (Lausanne 2016)
400 m: 46.13 NR (El Paso 2007)
Indoors
60 m: 6.58 NR (Stuttgart 2010)
Medal record
Men's athletics
Representing the Netherlands Antilles
Pan American Games
2007 Rio de Janeiro
100 m
Central American and Caribbean Games
2006 Cartagena
100 m
2006 Cartagena
4×100 m relay
2010 Mayaguez
100 m
2010 Mayaguez
200 m
2010 Mayaguez
4×100 m relay
South American Games
2002 Belém
100 m
2002 Belém
200 m
Continental Cup
2010 Split
200 m
Pan American Junior Championships
2003 Bridgetown
100 m
CARIFTA Games (U20)
2003 Port of Spain
100 m
CARIFTA Games (U17)
2000 St. George's
100 m
2000 St. George's
200 m
Representing Netherlands
European Championships
2012 Helsinki
200 m
2012 Helsinki
4×100 m relay
2016 Amsterdam
100 m
2018 Berlin
4×100 m relay
Churandy Thomas Martina (born 3 July 1984) is a Dutch sprinter. He originally placed second in the 200 metres at the 2008 Beijing Olympics but was later disqualified due to a lane violation. Martina secured four and two individual top-five finishes at the Summer Olympics and World Athletics Championships respectively. He was the 100 metres 2007 Pan American Games champion representing the Netherlands Antilles and claimed three individual titles at the Central American and Caribbean Games. He won gold medals in the 200 m and 100 m at the 2012 and 2016 European Athletics Championships respectively.
Martina is the Dutch national record holder for the 60, 100, 200 and 400 metres. His 100 m 9.91-second record was set at the 2012 London Olympics semi-final and 200 m 19.81-second record was achieved at the Diamond League meeting in Lausanne, Switzerland in 2016. He won 13 Dutch national titles. Martina hails from Curaçao and represented the Netherlands Antilles until its dissolution in 2010.
Churandy Thomas Martina (born 3 July 1984) is a Dutch sprinter. He originally placed second in the 200 metres at the 2008 Beijing Olympics but was later...
Athens, Greece, from 13 to 29 August 2004, sending track athletes ChurandyMartina and Geronimo Goeloe and equestrian athlete Eddy Stibbe. The 2004 Games...
September 2015, he had a car crash while riding with fellow sprinters, ChurandyMartina and Hensley Paulina, which left Agard with a broken vertebra in his...
tiles) Fastest topple of 30 metres of domino tiles (4.21 sec, time by ChurandyMartina: 3.81 sec) Largest number of domino tiles resting on a single domino...
seventh at 20.40 seconds, but as a result of the disqualifications of ChurandyMartina (second) and Wallace Spearmon (third) he moved up to the fifth place...
place in the 100 meter finals, edging out UTEP's stand-out sprinter ChurandyMartina (sixth place), who earlier in the year ran a 9.76 (wind-aided) 100-meters...
Fastest topple of 30 metres of domino stones (4.21 sec) (the sprinter ChurandyMartina ran with the dominoes and achieved the time of 3.81 sec for the same...
(81kg). All three are from Curaçao. ChurandyMartina competed for the Netherlands. At the 2016 Olympics, Martina, Bonevacia, Hensley Paulina and Jean-Julien...
26 June 2015, and 9.77 (+4.2 m/s) in Lubbock, Texas on 18 May 2014. ChurandyMartina (AHO) ran 9.76 (+6.1 m/s) at high altitude in El Paso, Texas on 13...
Dutch), NU.nl, 31 December 2011. Retrieved 7 October 2023. "Prijs voor Martina en Schippers" (in Dutch), NOS, 20 December 2012. Retrieved 7 October 2023...
the 2020 Summer Olympics. Together with the Dutch oldest sprinter ChurandyMartina she was the flagbearer at the 2020 Summer Olympics Parade of Nations...
Women's 10,000 metres Gold 2012 Helsinki ChurandyMartina Men's 200 metres Gold 2012 Helsinki ChurandyMartina Brian Mariano Giovanni Codrington Patrick...
Curaçaoan descent) Tyrell Malacia (father of Curaçaoan descent) ChurandyMartina Javier Martina Armando Obispo (father of Curaçaoan descent) Jaron Vicario...
baseball player 1984 – Manny Lawson, American football player 1984 – ChurandyMartina, Dutch sprinter 1984 – Corey Sevier, Canadian actor and producer 1986...
in shooting, and ChurandyMartina in track and field. Neither Davelaar or Elhage continued past the qualification rounds, but Martina reached the finals...
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