Michel Tornéus
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Michel Tresor Komesha Tornéus (born 26 May 1986) is a Swedish former long jumper.[2][3]
Biography
He competed at the 2009 European Indoor Championships, the 2009 World Championships and the 2010 World Indoor Championships without reaching the final.[4]
He made a name for himself in 2005 at 19 years of age when he jumped 7.94 meters, just 1 cm short of the Swedish junior record.[3] He set a personal best jump of 8.11 metres in June 2009 at Ullevi.[4]
He was first in the long jump for Sweden in the
He won his first senior medal in 2012, a bronze at the 2012 European Athletics Championships in Helsinki. He then finished one centimetre behind a medal in the long jump at the 2012 Summer Olympics.
He began 2013 in fine form breaking the Swedish indoor long jump record. He competed at the
At the 2015 European Athletics Indoor Championships Tornéus won his first international gold medal, after beating the Swedish indoor record in the final.[6]
At the 2017 World Championships in Athletics held in London, he obtained the 8th place in the men's long jump event, clearing 8.18 metres.[7]
Tornéus retired in 2019.[8]
Personal life
His father was born in
Achievements
| Year | Competition | Venue | Position | Notes |
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Representing  Sweden
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| 2005 | European Junior Championships | Kaunas, Lithuania
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4th | 7.63 m |
| 2007 | European U23 Championships | Debrecen, Hungary
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10th | 7.53 m |
| 2009 | European Indoor Championships | Turin, Italy
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17th (q) | 7.58 m |
| World Championships | Berlin, Germany
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28th (q) | 7.78 m | |
| 2010 | World Indoor Championships | Doha, Qatar
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16th (q) | 7.71 m |
| European Championships | Barcelona, Spain
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9th | 7.92 m | |
| 2011 | European Indoor Championships | Paris, France
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7th | 7.84 m |
| European Team Championships | Stockholm, Sweden
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2nd | 8.19 m
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| World Championships | Daegu, South Korea
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27th (q) | 7.65 m | |
| 2012 | World Indoor Championships | Istanbul, Turkey
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9th (q) | 7.85 m |
| European Championships | Helsinki, Finland
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3rd | 8.17 m | |
| Olympic Games | London, United Kingdom
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4th | 8.11 m | |
| 2013 | European Indoor Championships
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Gothenburg, Sweden
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2nd | 8.29 m |
| World Championships | Moscow, Russia
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19th (q) | 7.75 m | |
| 2014 | World Indoor Championships | Sopot, Poland
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3rd | 8.21 m |
| European Championships | Zurich, Switzerland
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5th | 8.09 m | |
| 2015 | European Indoor Championships
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Prague, Czech Republic
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1st | 8.30 m |
| World Championships | Beijing, China
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— | NM | |
| 2016 | European Championships | Amsterdam, Netherlands
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2nd | 8.21 m (w) |
| Olympic Games | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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26th (q) | 7.65 m | |
| 2017 | European Indoor Championships | Belgrade, Serbia
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2nd | 8.08 m |
| World Championships | London, United Kingdom | 8th | 8.18 m | |
| 2018 | European Championships | Berlin, Germany
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7th | 7.86 m |
References
- ^ "Men's long jump".
- ^ a b Gustavsson, Sven. "Tornéus redo för VM-debuten". Dagens Nyheter (in Swedish).
- ^ a b Michel Torneus Archived 19 August 2009 at the Wayback Machine. SVT. (in Swedish)
- ^ a b Michel Tornéus at World Athletics
- IAAF. Retrieved on 24 February 2011.
- ^ Mike Rowbottom. "Torneus earns European Indoor long jump title in Prague after 2013 torments in Gothenburg". insidethegames.biz - Olympic, Paralympic and Commonwealth Games News. Retrieved 7 March 2015.
- IAAF. Retrieved 9 August 2017.
- ^ "Michel Tornéus avslutar karriären". Sveriges Radio (in Swedish).
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