Martin Jellinghaus
Personal information | |
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Born | 26 October 1944 Lauf an der Pegnitz, Bayern, Germany | (age 79)
Height | 1.87 m (6 ft 2 in) |
Weight | 83 kg (183 lb) |
Sport | |
Sport | Sprint running |
Club | Bayer Leverkusen |
Medal record |
Martin Jellinghaus (born 26 October 1944) is a retired West German former athlete who competed mainly in the 400 metres.
He competed for West Germany in the 1968 Summer Olympics held in Mexico City, Mexico in the 4×400 metre relay where he won the bronze medal with his team mates Helmar Müller, Manfred Kinder and Gerhard Hennige. During the games, along with the Australian sprinter Peter Norman, he wore Olympic Project for Human Rights badges to show support for the suspended American sprinters Tommie Smith and John Carlos, the two gold and bronze medalists in the men's 200-meter race, who took their places on the podium for the medal ceremony barefooted and wearing civil rights badges, lowering their heads and each defiantly raising a black-gloved fist as the Star Spangled Banner was played.
References
- Martin Jellinghaus at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
- 1944 births
- Living people
- West German male sprinters
- Olympic bronze medalists for West Germany
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1968 Summer Olympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1972 Summer Olympics
- Olympic athletes of West Germany
- European Athletics Championships medalists
- Medalists at the 1968 Summer Olympics
- Olympic bronze medalists in athletics (track and field)
- Universiade medalists in athletics (track and field)
- Universiade silver medalists for West Germany
- People from Lauf an der Pegnitz
- Medalists at the 1970 Summer Universiade
- German athletics Olympic medalist stubs