Louis Tsatoumas
Louis Tsatoumas (Greek Λούης Τσάτουμας, born February 12, 1982 in Messini ) is a Greek long jumper. At a height of 1.87 m his competition weight is 76 kg. He holds the long jump record both the Greek in the stadium and in the hall.
Life
Louis Tsatoumas was trained by George Pomaski and Dimitris Vasilikos. He trained in Athens. His athletics club is Olympiakos Piraeus.
Achievements
In 2001 he won at the Greek Junior Championships in the long jump. Greek championships he won in this sport in the years 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2008, the Hellenic Hall Championship in 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2011.
His personal best, which he set at 1.6 m / s tail wind in Kalamata June 2, 2007, is 8.66 m. This was the world's best distance, since the Cuban Iván Pedroso was 8.70 m long jump at the World Athletics Championships in 1995 at the Ullevi stadium in Gothenburg. He broke hence the Greek record which had been held since 1994 with 8.36 m of Konstantinos Koukodimos. His jump was the world at this time of the eight longest and second- longest in Europe. His personal Hallenbestleistung stands at 8.21 meters, situated at the Greek Indoor Championships on February 20, 2011 in Peania, Attica. This was the same Greek record in the indoor long jump.
Tsatoumas had success as a junior athlete. Internationally, he made for the first time at the first Youth World Championships IAAF in Bydgoszcz attention to himself in July 1999, when he landed in the long jump competition in fourth place. In 2001 he was in Grosseto Junior European Champion, two years later in Bydgoszcz U23 European champion with 8.24 m. In the same year he won the SPAR European Cup in June in Florence with 8,06 m. In his first World Championships in August 2003 in the Stade de France in Saint- Denis (Seine- Saint- Denis ), he was 7.72 m twelfth and in his first at the Olympics in August 2004 in Athens Olympic Stadium Spiridon Louis, he failed with 7.81 m in the qualification. At the World Indoor Championships in 2006 in the sports complex Olimpijski in Moscow, he was fourth. At the 4th IAAF World Athletics Final in September 2006 at the Gottlieb -Daimler stadium in Stuttgart, he was 8.29 m behind Irving Saladino and the Saudi Mohamed Salman Al Khuwalidi third parties. In the Indoor Athletics Championships in Birmingham in March 2007 he was awarded with 8.02 m behind Andrew Howe a silver medal. At the 2008 Summer Olympic Games at the National Stadium Beijing in August 2008, he won while with his first jump of 8.27 meters to qualify, but he succeeded in the finals, not a single valid test. He received a bronze medal at the 2009 Mediterranean Games in Pescara with 8.20 m.