Louis Martin (weightlifter)’s biography, net worth, fact, career, awards and life story

Intro Weightlifter from Great Britain
Was Athlete 
Weightlifter 
From United Kingdom 
Type Sports 
Gender male
Birth 11 November 1936, Kingston, Surrey County, Jamaica, Jamaica
Death 17 January 2015, Heanor, England, United Kingdom
(aged 78 years)
Star sign Scorpio

Louis George Martin (11 November 1936 – 16 January 2015) was a British middle-heavyweight weightlifter.

Martin was born in Kingston, Jamaica, where he did some bodybuilding. In the mid 1950s he moved to the United Kingdom and started training in weightlifting. At the 1958 Commonwealth Games he still represented Jamaica, but the next year he won a world title while competing for Great Britain. At the Summer Olympics he won a bronze medal in 1960 and a silver medal in 1964; he failed in the last (clean and jerk) event in 1968. Between 1959 and 1965 he won four world and four European titles and set four world records, though only two became official.

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