Michel Tresor Komesha Tornéus (born 26 May 1986) is a Swedish former long jumper.Michel Torneus . SVT.
Biography He competed at the 2009 European Indoor Championships, the 2009 World Championships and the 2010 World Indoor Championships without reaching the final.
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. He set a personal best jump of 8.11 metres in June 2009 at Ullevi.
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.Julin, A. Lennart (23 February 2011). With three more World junior records, Bengtsson steals the spotlight in Stockholm. IAAF. Retrieved on 24 February 2011.
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.
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.
Tornéus retired in 2019.
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.
Achievements Representing 2005European Junior Championships Kaunas, Lithuania4th7.63 m2007European U23 Championships Debrecen, Hungary10th7.53 m2009European Indoor Championships Turin, Italy17th (q)7.58 mWorld ChampionshipsBerlin, Germany28th (q)7.78 m2010World Indoor ChampionshipsDoha, Qatar16th (q)7.71 mEuropean ChampionshipsBarcelona, Spain9th7.92 m2011European Indoor Championships Paris, France7th7.84 mEuropean Team Championships Stockholm, Sweden2nd8.19 mWorld ChampionshipsDaegu, South Korea27th (q)7.65 m2012World Indoor ChampionshipsIstanbul, Turkey9th (q)7.85 mEuropean ChampionshipsHelsinki, Finland3rd8.17 mOlympic GamesLondon, United Kingdom4th8.11 m2013European Indoor Championships Gothenburg, Sweden2nd8.29 mWorld ChampionshipsMoscow, Russia19th (q)7.75 m2014World Indoor ChampionshipsSopot, Poland3rd8.21 mEuropean ChampionshipsZurich, Switzerland5th8.09 m2015European Indoor Championships Prague, Czech Republic1st8.30 mWorld ChampionshipsBeijing, China —NM2016European ChampionshipsAmsterdam, Netherlands2nd8.21 m (w)Olympic GamesRio de Janeiro, Brazil26th (q)7.65 m2017European Indoor ChampionshipsBelgrade, Serbia2nd8.08 mWorld ChampionshipsLondon, United Kingdom8th8.18 m2018European ChampionshipsBerlin, Germany7th7.86 m
References
External links
Personal website Hammarby IF Friidrott