Michel Tornéus
 Tornéus competing for Sweden at Nordenkampen 2013. | |||||||||||||||||||
| Personal information | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Nationality | Swedish | ||||||||||||||||||
| Born |
26 May 1986 Botkyrka, Stockholm County | ||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.86 m (6 ft 1 in) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 72 kg (159 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | |||||||||||||||||||
| Event(s) | Long jump | ||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Hammarby IF Friidrott | ||||||||||||||||||
| Coached by | Oscar Gidewall | ||||||||||||||||||
| Achievements and titles | |||||||||||||||||||
| Personal best(s) |
8.22 m[1] 8.29 m (indoors) NR | ||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Michel Tresor Komesha Tornéus (born 26 May 1986) is a Swedish 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 2010 European Team Championships First League section and went on to finish ninth in the event final at the 2010 European Athletics Championships. He started his 2011 indoor season in strong form, taking four straight wins, including a personal best of 8.13 m to win in front of a home crowd at the XL Galan.[5]
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 2013 European Athletics Indoor Championships on home soil in Gothenburg, jumping a new national record of 8.27 metres in the first round, before jumping 8.29 metres in the final round, only two centimetres behind winner Aleksandr Menkov.
Personal life
His father was born in Democratic Republic of Congo and his mother is from the Finnish (Meänkieli) speaking region of Torne Valley in Sweden. Tornéus’ original athletics club is the Finnish association of Tullinge-Tumba track and field program.[2]
Achievements
Representing  Sweden | ||||
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| 2005 | European Junior Championships | Kaunas, Lithuania | 4th | 7.63 m |
| 2007 | European U23 Championships | Debrecen, Hungary | 10th | 7.53 m |
| 2009 | European Indoor Championships | Turin, Italy | 17th (q) | 7.58 m |
| World Championships | Berlin, Germany | 28th (q) | 7.78 m | |
| 2010 | European Championships | Barcelona, Spain | 9th | 7.92 m |
| 2011 | European Indoor Championships | Paris, France | 7th | 7.84 m |
| European Team Championships | Stockholm, Sweden | 2nd | 8.19 m | |
| World Championships | Daegu, South Korea | 27th (q) | 7.65 m | |
| 2012 | World Indoor Championships | Istanbul, Turkey | 9th (q) | 7.85 m |
| European Championships | Helsinki, Finland | 3rd | 8.17 m | |
| Olympic Games | London, United Kingdom | 4th | 8.11 m | |
| 2013 | European Indoor Championships | Gothenburg, Sweden | 2nd | 8.29 m |
| World Championships | Moscow, Russia | 19th (q) | 7.75 m | |
References
- ↑ http://www.sportresult.com/sports/la/ajax/eaa2.asp?event_id=10011100000004&ctype_id=61&module=competition&show=RL&lang=en&display_compID=53782
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 torneus redo för vm debuten. Dagens Nyheter. (Swedish)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Michel Torneus. SVT. (Swedish)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Michel Tornéus profile at IAAF
- ↑ Julin, A. Lennart (2011-02-23). With three more World junior records, Bengtsson steals the spotlight in Stockholm. IAAF. Retrieved on 2011-02-24.
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