Churandy Martina
Martina after the season victory over 4 × 100 meters at the European Athletics Championships 2012 in Helsinki
Chur Andy Martina ( born July 3, 1984 in Willemstad, Curaçao) is a sprinter from the Netherlands Antilles. On the American level, he has been able to win numerous titles and was allowed to wear in Athens in 2004 during the invasion of the Nations Flag of the Netherlands Antilles at the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games. Since 2011 he starts for the Netherlands.
Career
The South African junior champion over 100 meters in 2002 resigned over this distance at the 2003 World Championships in Paris in the flow and at the 2005 World Championships in Helsinki in the second round. Two years later, in 2007 in Osaka, he won both 100 and 200 meters to fifth place. Also, the 2009 World Championships in Berlin did not run successfully for the Sprinter. In the run- he left about 100 meters and then did not start to his lead over 200 meters.
To the quarter- finals in the 100 meters Chur Andy Martina met before at the Olympic Games in Athens in 2004 and witnessed one of his career highlights at the next Olympic Games in Beijing in 2008, where he was able to fight for fourth place on the short distance in a personal best. About 200 meters he was even second, but then disqualified for exceeding the track mark. The Incoming silver medalist Shawn Crawford (200 -meter champion from Athens ), however, took the view that Martina was also faster at running regelkonformem Himself and therefore symbolically handed the medal to the man of the Netherlands Antilles.
Since 2011 Martina starts for the Netherlands and immediately became Dutch champion in the 100 and 200 meters. At the World Championships in 2011 he was eliminated in two routes in the semifinals. At the European Championships 2012, he won in 20.42 seconds over 200 meters in front of his Dutch compatriot Patrick van Luijk. The next day, both won with Brian Marino and Giovanni Codrington the title with the 4 x 100 - meter relay.
Domino Day
On 14 November 2008 Martina was a guest at Domino Day in the Dutch city of Leeuwarden and took part in an unusual action. In the course of the motto "Celebrating 10 years of Domino Day - Breaking more World Records than ever 'should also record the fastest falling stones are broken. The athlete sprinting over a distance of 30 meters to a chain reaction of dominoes knocked over and won in 3.81 s He was thus four tenths faster than the falling rocks.