Michel Tresor Komesha Tornéus (born 26 May 1986) is a Swedish former
long jump
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2009 European Indoor Championships
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, 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
Ullevi, sometimes known as Nya Ullevi (, ''New Ullevi''), is a multi-purpose stadium in Gothenburg, Sweden. It was built for the 1958 FIFA World Cup, but since then has also hosted the World Allround Speed Skating Championships six times; the ...
.
He was first in the long jump for Sweden in the
2010 European Team Championships
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First League section and went on to finish ninth in the event final at the
2010 European Athletics Championships
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. 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
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.
He won his first senior medal in 2012, a bronze at the
2012 European Athletics Championships
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in Helsinki. He then finished one centimetre behind a medal in the
long jump
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Aleksandr Menkov
Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Menkov (russian: Александр Александрович Меньков, born 7 December 1990 in Minusinsk, Krasnoyarsk Krai) is a Russian athlete who competes in the long jump.
Career
Menkov set a personal best ...
2017 World Championships in Athletics
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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
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and his mother is from the
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Meänkieli
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) speaking region of
Torne Valley
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in Sweden. Tornéus' original
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club is the Tullinge-Tumba finska förening (''
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association of
Tullinge
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track and field
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