Kafétien Gomis

Kafétien Gomis ( born March 23, 1980 in Saint- Quentin ) is a French athlete with a personal best of 8.24 meters in the long jump (2010). At a height of 1.85 m his competition weight is 68 to 70 kg.

Life

The family of Kafétien Gomis comes from the Casamance region in Senegal. His club is the ASPTT Lille- Métropole.

Achievements

Bests

He is mostly long jumpers, but has also participated in sprint competitions. His personal best in the long jump is 8.24 m. He succeeded on 1 August 2010 at the European Athletics Championships 2010 in Barcelona, ​​where he won second place. His best indoor result is a length of 8.21 meters, which he jumped in Paris on 27 February 2010. In the 60 -meter run from it's a time of 6.91 s reported that he ran in Liévin in the hall on 5 January 2006, in the 100 -meter run 10.79 s on May 18, 2008 in Villeneuve- d' Ascq.

Long jump competitions

In the 22nd Universiade 2003 in Daegu, he was ninth in the final. In his only previous part in the Olympics in Athens in 2004 he came with 7,99 m not beyond the long jump qualification. In the 23rd Universiade in Izmir in 2004 he finished seventh. He was more successful. 19th at the European Championships in Gothenburg in 2006 with 7.93 m in the final and in fifth place and exactly the same width at the 29th European Indoor Championships in Birmingham in 2007 and fourth place In January 2007 he won a hall meeting in Mondeville before Yann Domenech and Sebastian Bayer. With a jump of 8.09 meters, he won in 2007 in Bordeaux before Salim Sdiri at the French Indoor Championships. In 2009 he successfully defended his title French Hall. At the 30th European Indoor Championships in Turin in March 2009 he again reached the fourth place with 8.12 m in the final. His first international medal he won then in 2010 at the European Championships in Barcelona. After 8.24 m in the last attempt, he took second place behind Christian Reif. Also Second, he was the Athletics Continental Cup 2010 in Split with 8.10 m behind Dwight Phillips, the 31 European Indoor Championships in March 2011 in Paris behind Sebastian Bayer and the Games of La Francophonie in September 2013 in Nice with 7.81 nbsp; m behind Adrian Strzałkowski.