2012

The 34 cartons are lined up in the museum hallways, waiting to be unpacked, catalogued and arranged in the archives and collection. ©Gerd Steins

„The Artifact of the Month“ XI. – Museum Rarities from the AIMS Marathon Museum of Running – The addition for the „David E. Martin Collection“ – The „Artefact of the Decade“! – Horst Milde reports

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On June 24, 2011, we published an article about the valuable addition of the "David E. Martin Collection" to the Berlin Sports Museum – AIMS Marathon Museum of Running, which we titled "article of the decade", not "article of the month", as we usually do.

On May 9, 2011, the Berlin Sports Museum – AIMS Marathon Museum of Running – received a shipment from Dr. Dave Martin/Atlanta, Georgia (USA) comprised of 31 cartons packed with about 800 books, 3/5 of which were bound journals and 2/5 were yearbooks on running, international athletics, as well as numerous trade publications about international events such as the World Champions in Athletics, the Olympic Games, and major running events and sports festivals.

While this first collection was extraordinary, the "artifact of the decade" has now received an addition, the significance of which cannot yet be decided. 34 more moving boxes have made their way from Atlanta across the Atlantic to the museum at the Berlin Olympic Stadium.

The contents of the 34 cartons are listed in great detail on eleven compact printed pages, compiled with the help of his sister Kay and his friends at his Atlanta Track Club.

The 34 cartons are lined up in the museum hallways, waiting to be unpacked, catalogued and arranged in the archives and collection.

Included are numerous articles that will supplement the many magazines and books, programmes of famous marathons, academic literature, publications on the Olympic Games in Sydney, Atlanta, Athens, and Barcelona, original articles of clothing from stars such as Bill Rodgers, a t-shirt collection from diverse races around the world, gear from the US team at major events, as well as personal mementos.

We will be presenting more artifacts from the "David E. Martin Collection" here in the near future, but would like to take this opportunity to thank Dr. David E. Martin for his very generous gift.

Horst Milde

David E. Martin:

David Martin is presently Regents Professor Emeritus of Health Sciences at Georgia State University. He was born in 1939, received his PhD in medical physiology from the University of Wisconsin at Madison in 1970, and has been at Georgia State University in Atlanta ever since. While at Georgia State he taught courses in exercise physiology, cardiovascular physiology, and pulmonary physiology. He started an exercise physiology laboratory in the 1970s which eventually became a model for testing the performance capabilites of elite-level distance runners.

Nearly 100 peer-reviewed publications have emerged from this laboratory, as well as dozens of coaching-related articles. He is active in the USA national governing body for track and field, serving on committees that are involved with preparation of distance runners for successful international competition.

David Martin was elected to membership in the Association of Track and Field Statisticians at their meeting in Prague in 1978. He attended most of the original meetings which led to the formation of the Association of International Marathons, and has served the Association as its Statistician since the beginning. He became a Fellow in the American College of Sports Medicine in 1987.

David Martin has written seven books, including: The Marathon Footrace (1979, with Roger Gynn), Respiratory Anatomy & Physiology(1988, with John Youtsey), Training Distance Runners (1991, with Peter Coe), Better Training for Distance Runners (1997, with Peter Coe), and "The Olympic Marathon" (2000, with Roger Gynn).

More information about/from Dr. David Martin:

“The Artefact of the Month” III. – Rare museum artefacts from the Berlin Sports Museum – AIMS Marathon Museum of Running – Dr. David Martin (Atlanta, GA) and his donations to the Berlin Sports Museum – AIMS Marathon Museum of Running – Current Donations – Horst Milde reports
“The Artefact of the Month” III. – Rare museum artefacts from the Berlin Sports Museum – AIMS Marathon Museum of Running – Dr. David Martin (Atlanta, GA) and his donations to the Berlin Sports Museum – AIMS Marathon Museum of Running – Current Donations – Horst Milde reports

Every tee shirts tells a story – a donation from Dr. David Martin for the AIMS Marathon Museum of Running in Berlin
Every tee shirts tells a story – a donation from Dr. David Martin for the AIMS Marathon Museum of Running in Berlin

A pioneering project – Dr David Martin recalls in Distance Running how an extraordinary race staged in Atlanta 30 years ago eventually won Olympic status for marathon runners – 25 years AVON Frauenlauf in Berlin

WHO SHOULD BE RUNNING MARATHONS? By Dr. David Martin/Georgia State University

A class of his own – Haile Gebrselassie – A Report from Dr. David Martin (Atlanta/USA) in Distance Running – the official Publication of the Association of International Marathons an Road Races (AIMS) and the International Association of Athletic Federations (IAAF)