Carol Martin (athlete)

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Carol Lynne Martin (born 1948) is a Canadian former track and field athlete who specialized in discus, and also competed in shot put and javelin. She represented Canada at three Commonwealth Games (1966 Kingston, 1970 Edinburgh, 1974 Christchurch) and won bronze in women's discus at each Games. She also earned medals at the Pan‑American Games (silver in discus, 1967 Winnipeg; bronze, 1971 Cali) and at the Pacific Conference Games (silver in 1969 Tokyo; gold in 1973 Toronto). She was on Canada’s national team for about a decade and held the Canadian women’s discus title for seven years. She trained with the Don Mills Track Club in Toronto under coach Lloyd Percival, studied at Simon Fraser University in the early 1970s, and helped raise attention to women’s athletics there. She earned a B.A. at York University in 1975. After competing, Martin coached and taught fitness, became a registered massage therapist in 1982, and later joined the International Network of Esoteric Healing, publishing Breathe: An Enlightened Living Handbook in 2014.