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Bruno Brokken (born 9 May 1953 inWilrijk) is a formerBelgianhigh jumper. In 1976 he got the bronze medal at theEuropean Indoor Championships with a jump of 2.19 metres.[1]
Bruno Brokken was the 1975Belgian Sportsman of the year, ending the six consecutive titles forEddy Merckx.[2]
He tried his hand at other sports likesoccer,basketball and especiallyjudo before starting withathletics. He quit as a judoka when he was 15 years old with abrown belt when his father founded Wilrijk Atletiek Club, an athletics club. After trying his hand at thejavelin, he switched to the high jump. A year later, he jumped over 2.04 metres using thestraddle technique.
Only seventeen years old, he won the Belgian Championships in 1971. He finished in 8th place in the final of the1974 European Championships in Athletics inRome.[3] 1975 saw him break the Belgian indoor record with 2.21 metres and the Belgian outdoor record with 2.24 metres. After winning bronze at the 1976 European Indoors, he was selected for the1976 Summer Olympics inMontreal, but did not compete due to a last minute knee injury. An operation on his knee failed, and his sports career was over when he was only 23 years old.
