Chris Tomlinson

Christopher Tomlinson ( Christopher George " Chris " Tomlinson, born September 15, 1981 in Middlesbrough ) is a British long jumper.

His breakthrough came in 2002, when he. , Only three months after a training accident in which he broke both wrists on April 13 in Tallahassee with 8.27 m the 34 -year-old British record by Lynn Davies broke That same season he was also sixth as at the European Championships in Munich at the Commonwealth Games in Manchester.

A ninth place finish at the World Athletics Championships 2003 in Paris / Saint- Denis was followed by a sixth place finish at the IAAF World Indoor Championships in Budapest in 2004. At the Olympic Games in Athens, he finished fifth.

After he retired in 2005 at the World Championships in Helsinki in qualifying, he was the following year at the European Championships in Gothenburg ninth. In 2007 he improved on July 7 in Bad Langensalza his own British record to 8.29 m, but failed at the World Championships in Osaka again in the first round. At the World Athletics Championships in Berlin in 2009 he was eighth. Although he lost the 2009 British record to Greg Rutherford, who jumped 8.30 meters wide, but caught up with him in 2011 at the Meeting Areva 8.35 m back.

On 2 February 2008, he established the current British indoor record of 8.18 m in Stuttgart. Shortly thereafter, he won at the World Indoor Championships in Valencia the silver medal, but missed in the summer at the Olympic Games in Beijing the final.