Martin may refer to:

Places[link]

In Europe[link]

Croatia

• Martin, Croatia, a village in Slavonia

Scotland

• Kilmartin, village in mid Argyll and village near Inbhrinmorrisdean

Slovakia

• Martin, Slovakia

Spain

• Martín, a tributary of the Ebro river
• Martín del Río, a town in Aragón, Spain

Switzerland

• Martin (Val Poschiavo), a town in Val Poschiavo

United Kingdom

• Martin, Hampshire
• Martin, Lincolnshire
• Martin near Horncastle, Lincolnshire
• Martin Hussingtree, Worcestershire
• Martin Mere, a lake in Lancashire
  • WWT Martin Mere, a wetland nature reserve that includes the lake and surrounding areas
• Martin Mill, Kent
• Martin, Kent

in North America[link]

Canada

• Martin Islands, Nunavut

United States

• Martin, Florida
• Martin, Georgia
• Martin, Kentucky
• Martin, Louisiana
• Martin, Michigan
• Martin, North Dakota
• Martin, Ohio
• Martin, South Carolina
• Martin, South Dakota
• Martin, Tennessee
• Martin City, Montana
• San Martin, California

See also

• Martin County (disambiguation)
• Martin Township (disambiguation)

In the Southern Hemisphere[link]

Antarctica

• Martin Peninsula

Australia

• Martin, Western Australia

Fictional Martins[link]

First name[link]

• Martin (Candide), from the 1759 novel Candide by Voltaire
• Martin Chuzzlewit, from the novel by Charles Dickens
• Martin Crane, from the American situation comedy Frasier
• Martin Crowe (Emmerdale), from the English soap opera Emmerdale
• Martín Fierro, Argentinian gaucho in the epic of the same name
• Martin Fowler (EastEnders), from the English soap opera Eastenders
• Marty McFly, main protagonist of the Back to the Future film series
• Martin Payne, title character from the American situation comedy Martin (TV series)
• Martin Prince, from the American animated television program The Simpsons
• Uncle Martin, title character from the American situation comedy My Favorite Martian

Family name[link]

• Daniel Martin (novel), title character from the 1977 novel by John Fowles
• Jake Martin (Degrassi character, character from Degrassi
• Pincher Martin, title character from the 1956 novel by William Golding
• Tad Martin, characters in the American soap opera All My Children
• Cody Martin and Zack Martin, characters from Suite Life On Deck

Media[link]

• Martin (film), a 1977 movie directed by George A. Romero
• Martin (TV series), an American situation comedy (1992 - 1997) produced by actor and comedian Martin Lawrence
• Martin (play), a 1972 television play written by Alasdair Gray
• Glenn Martin, DDS, a stop-motion animated series on Nick-at-Nite.

Music[link]

• Martin Svensson, a Swedish singer also known simply as Martin
• Martin Hoberg Hedegaard, a Danish singer also known simply as Martin
• "Martin", a song on the album The Art of Falling Apart by Soft Cell

Other uses[link]

• Martin (bird), several species of bird similar to swallows in the family Hirundinidae
• Martin Field, airports in Nebraska and Washington
• Martin Light, a professional lighting equipment manufacturer
• Aston Martin, an automobile manufacturer
• Martin Randall Travel, a cultural tour operator
• C.F. Martin & Company, a guitar company
• Glenn L. Martin Company, aircraft manufacturer, later Martin Marietta and finally merged into Lockheed Martin
• Masayuki Suzuki (singer), a Japanese singer nicknamed "Martin"
• Martin Band Instrument Company, a musical instrument manufacturer in Elkhart, Indiana
• Martin-Baker, manufacturer of airline safety equipment
• Martin's Axiom, a mathematical axiom independent of the usual axioms of set theory

Other forms and similar names[link]

• Marcin
• Marten, one of several species of carnivorous mammal
• Martian
• Martine (disambiguation)
• Marton
• Martyn, one of the fourteen Tribes of Galway, Ireland
• St. Martin (disambiguation)
• St. Martin's (disambiguation)

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Tessa Sanderson

Theresa Ione "Tessa" Sanderson, CBE (born 14 March 1956) is a former British javelin thrower and heptathlete who competed in the javelin competition in every one of the six Olympics from 1976–1996 winning the Gold medal in 1984. She is the second track and field athlete, after Lia Manoliu (discus), to compete at six Olympics. ^[1]

Early life[link]

Sanderson was born in St Elizabeth, Jamaica of Ghanaian ancestry, she later emigrated to Wolverhampton, England.

Athletics career[link]

Sanderson was the UK's leading javelin thrower from the mid-1970s, winning silver in the 1978 European championships and gold in the Commonwealth Games three times (1978, 1986, 1990), but was eclipsed during the 1980s by the up-and-coming Fatima Whitbread, with whom she shared a long standing rivalry.

When Sanderson won the gold medal at the 1984 Summer Olympics in the javelin, becoming the first British black woman ever to win Olympic gold, her victory was quite unexpected. In the end, her career outlasted Whitbread's, and she competed at senior international level until 1996.

Sports administration[link]

Sanderson served as Vice-Chairman of Sport England from 1999 to 2005.

She is helping to run an academy in Newham, London that finds and helps train athletes to represent Britain in the 2012 Summer Olympics.

In September 2009 Tessa registered her own Charity sports academy carrying on her work alongside the established Newham Sports Academy. The name of the Charity is the Tessa Sanderson Foundation and Academy. The charity is helping Tessa to work on a wider bases to help other youngsters who are disabled and non disabled achieve their goals and creating a pathway and more opportunities not just in Newham but the wider areas of London and with a vision of a national roll out.^[2]

In April 2009 Tessa again because of her work in the community made history again by organising the first 10K road run to run through the Olympic Park offering the community and other visitors to Newham the Host Borough of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games a fantastic birds eye view of the Olympic 2012 athletics stadium. The Newham Classic 10K^[3] was so successful that it takes place annually and has led to other active running events for anyone such as the City of London West Ham Park Runs which takes place most Sunday mornings in West Ham Park in the East End of London.

Tessa was been appointed as a Board member of the Olympic Park Legacy Company chaired by Baroness Ford to oversee and help with the formation of the Olympic Park for the Newham community and people living in the East End of London.^[4]

Tessa organised and was associated with the Redbridge 10k on 24 July 2011, which was the first ever run in the Borough of Redbridge.

Media work[link]

In 1988, Sanderson made an appearance on Bullseye. In 2005, she took part in the one-off special, Strictly African Dancing, as part of the Africa Lives season on the BBC. She was voted into third place by the viewers.

Honours[link]

Sanderson was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 1985 New Year's Honours, following her Olympic gold, raised to Officer (OBE) in the 1998 New Year's Honours for her charity work, and to Commander (CBE) in the 2004 New Year's Honours for her services to Sport England.

There is a housing estate named after her in her adopted home town of Wednesfield, Sanderson Park. It is located on the playing fields of her former school, Wards Bridge High School.

Personal life[link]

On 1 May 2010, Tessa married Densign White, former Olympic Judo player at St. Paul's Cathedral in London.^[5]

Achievements[link]

Year	Competition	Venue	Position	Notes
Representing  United Kingdom and  England
1974	British Commonwealth Games	Christchurch, New Zealand	5th	48.54 m
1978	Commonwealth Games	Edmonton, Canada	1st	61.34 m
	European Championships	Prague, Czechoslovakia	2nd	62.40 m
1980	Olympic Games	Moscow, Soviet Union	19th	48.76 m
1983	World Championships	Helsinki, Finland	4th	64.76 m
1984	Olympic Games	Los Angeles, United States	1st	69.56 m
1986	Commonwealth Games	Edinburgh, United Kingdom	1st	69.80 m
1987	World Championships	Rome, Italy	4th	67.54 m
1988	Olympic Games	Seoul, South Korea	21st	56.70 m
1990	Commonwealth Games	Auckland, New Zealand	1st	65.72 m
	European Championships	Split, Yugoslavia	12th	57.56 m
1992	Olympic Games	Barcelona, Spain	4th	63.58 m
1996	Olympic Games	Atlanta, United States	14th	58.86 m

See also[link]

• List of athletes with the most appearances at Olympic Games

References[link]

External links[link]

• Tessa Sanderson CBE
• The Tessa Sanderson Foundation and Academy
• Tessa Sanderson Track and Field Statistics
• Tessa Sanderson Biography and Olympic results Sports Reference

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