Medal record | ||
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Competitor for Great Britain | ||
Men's athletics | ||
World Indoor Championships | ||
Silver | 2008 Valencia | Long jump |
European Athletics Championships | ||
Bronze | 2010 Barcelona | Long jump |
Christopher ("Chris") George Tomlinson (born September 15, 1981 in Middlesbrough) is an English long jumper.
Tomlinson began competing for Middlesbrough AC (formerly Mandale Harriers and Middlesbrough and Cleveland AC) at the age of 10, mostly over 100m and 200m. He attended Nunthorpe Secondary School and to this day holds many of its year group records for triple and long jump. However in his early teens he decided to concentrate on long jump. His major breakthrough came in 2002 when, just three months after breaking both wrists in a freak weight-training accident, he jumped 8.27 m to break the British record that had been held by Lynn Davies for 34 years. On 7 July 2007 he increased his record by a further 2 cm, jumping 8.29 metres (27 ft 2.4 in) while competing in Bad Langensalza in Germany.
Tomlinson now competes for athletics club Newham and Essex Beagles.
He has won seven national titles in various age groups, including one for the triple jump indoors for under 20s in 2000.
In February 2008 he became the world's top long jumper of the year so far with a leap of 8.18m. He won the silver medal at the 2008 World Indoor Championships. He competed at the 2008 Olympic Games without reaching the final. On 20 August 2009, his record was broken by 1 cm by Greg Rutherford in the qualifying for the World Championships long jump final. Both Rutherford and Tomlinson progressed to the final.
Year | Competition | Venue | Position | Notes |
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Representing Great Britain and England | ||||
2002 | European Championships | Munich, Germany | 6th | 7.78 m |
2003 | World Championships | Paris, France | 9th | 7.93 m |
2006 | European Championships | Gothenburg, Sweden | 9th | 7.74 m |
2009 | World Championships | Berlin, Germany | 8th | 8.06 m |
2010 | European Championships | Barcelona, Spain | 3rd | 8.23 m |
2011 | European Team Championships | Stockholm, Sweden | 3rd | 8.12 m |
World Championships | Daegu, South Korea | 11th | 7.87 m |