Jacques Martin (athlete)

Jacques Martin (c. 1959 – April 19, 2012) was a paralympic athlete from Canada competing mainly in category F55 throwing events.

Jacques Martin
Medal record
Paralympic athletics
Representing  Canada
Paralympic Games
1984 Stoke Mandeville / New York Shot Putt - 4
1988 Seoul Shot Putt - 4
1992 Barcelona Discus Throw - THW5
1996 Atlanta Discus Throw - F54
1992 Barcelona Javelin Throw - THW5
1996 Atlanta Javelin Throw - F54
2000 Sydney Discus Throw - F55
1988 Seoul Discus Throw - 4
1992 Barcelona Shot Putt - THW5

Biography

Martin was from Saint-Denis-de-Brompton, Quebec. Martin competed in every Paralympic Games from 1984 to Athens in 2004. In 1984 he won the shot put for class 4 athletes while also competing in the javelin and discus. He improved on this feat in 1988, defending his gold in the shot and winning a bronze in the discus. Although he did not win a third straight shot put competition in Barcelona in 1992, he still improved, winning the discus for the first time, winning his first medal in javelin, a silver, and finishing in the bronze medal position in the shot put. In the 1996 Summer Paralympics he defended his discus gold medal and again won silver in the javelin. The 2000 Summer Paralympics saw Martin pick up what would prove to be his last medal, a silver in the discus as he was unable to medal in either shot or javelin. He was also unable to medal in either the discus or javelin at the 2004 Summer Paralympics.[1]

Martin died April 19, 2012, of a heart attack.[2]

gollark: no.
gollark: And I have about the same number of neurons as a really big GPU has transistors, I think, but those aren't that comparable.
gollark: I can manage probably 0.01 FLOPS given a bit of paper to work on, while my phone's GPU can probably do a few tens of GFLOPS, but emulating my brain would likely need EFLOPS of processing power and exabytes of memory.
gollark: Depending on how you count it my brain is much more powerful, or much less, than a lemon-powered portable electronic device.
gollark: Of course, it's possible that this is the wrong way to think about it, given that my brain is probably doing much more computation than a tablet powered by 5000 lemons thanks to a really optimized (for its specific task) architecture, and some hypothetical ultratech computer could probably do better.

References
  1. profile on paralympic.org
  2. AP (20 April 2012). "Four-time gold medallist Martin dies after heart attack". TSN. Retrieved 21 April 2012.


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