Michel Tornéus

Michel Tornéus
Tornéus in 2013
Personal information
NationalitySwedish
Born (1986-05-26) 26 May 1986 (age 38)
Botkyrka, Sweden
Height1.84 m (6 ft 0 in)
Weight72 kg (159 lb)
Sport
EventLong jump
ClubHammarby IF Friidrott
Coached byOscar Gidewall
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s)8.44 m NR[1]
8.30 m (indoors)
Medal record
Men's athletics
Representing  Sweden
World Indoor Championships
Bronze medal – third place 2014 Sopot Long jump
European Championships
Silver medal – second place 2016 Amsterdam Long jump
Bronze medal – third place 2012 Helsinki Long jump
European Indoor Championships
Gold medal – first place 2015 Prague Long jump
Silver medal – second place 2013 Gothenburg Long jump
Silver medal – second place 2017 Belgrade Long jump

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 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.

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 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 Tullinge-Tumba finska förening (Finnish association of Tullinge-Tumba) track and field program.[2]

Achievements

Year Competition Venue Position Notes
Representing  Sweden
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 World Indoor Championships Doha, Qatar 16th (q) 7.71 m
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
2014 World Indoor Championships Sopot, Poland 3rd 8.21 m
European Championships Zurich, Switzerland 5th 8.09 m
2015 European Indoor Championships Prague, Czech Republic 1st 8.30 m
World Championships Beijing, China — NM
2016 European Championships Amsterdam, Netherlands 2nd 8.21 m (w)
Olympic Games Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 26th (q) 7.65 m
2017 European Indoor Championships Belgrade, Serbia 2nd 8.08 m
World Championships London, United Kingdom 8th 8.18 m
2018 European Championships Berlin, Germany 7th 7.86 m

References

  1. ^ "Men's long jump".
  2. ^ a b Gustavsson, Sven. "Tornéus redo för VM-debuten". Dagens Nyheter (in Swedish).
  3. ^ a b Michel Torneus Archived 19 August 2009 at the Wayback Machine. SVT. (in Swedish)
  4. ^ a b Michel Tornéus at World Athletics Edit this at Wikidata
  5. ^ Julin, A. Lennart (23 February 2011). With three more World junior records, Bengtsson steals the spotlight in Stockholm. IAAF. Retrieved on 24 February 2011.
  6. ^ 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.
  7. ^ "Long Jump Men − Final − Results" (PDF). IAAF. Retrieved 9 August 2017.
  8. ^ "Michel Tornéus avslutar karriären". Sveriges Radio (in Swedish).
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