Louis Tsatoumas

Λούης Τσάτουμας
Louis Tsatoumas at the FBK Games in Hengelo 2014
Full name	Louis Tsatoumas
nation	Greece
birthday	12th February 1982 (age 38)
place of birth	Messini ,  Greece
size	187 cm
Weight	76 kg
Career
discipline	Long jumper
Best performance	8.66 m
society	Messiniakos GS
status	active

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 Greek record in the long jump both in the stadium and in the hall.

Life

Louis Tsatoumas was trained by George Pomaski and Dimitris Vasilikos. He trains in Athens . He was active at the athletics clubs of Messiniakos and Olympiakos Piraeus, among others .

successes

In 2001 he won the Greek Junior Championships in the long jump. He won Greek championships in this sport in 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008 and 2014, the Greek indoor championship in 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2011.

His personal best, which he set up on June 2, 2007 with a tailwind of 1.6 m / s in Kalamata , is 8.66 m. This was the best distance in the world since the Cuban Iván Pedroso jumped 8.70 m at the 1995 World Athletics Championships in the Ullevi Stadium in Gothenburg . He also broke the Greek record that had been held by Konstandinos Koukodimos since 1994 with 8.36 m . At that time, his jump was the eighth largest in the world and the second largest in Europe. His personal indoor best is 8.21 m, set up at the Greek Indoor Championships on February 20, 2011 in Peania, Attica region . This was also the Greek record in the indoor long jump.

Tsatoumas was already very successful as a young athlete. Internationally, he first drew attention to himself at the 1st Youth World Championships of the IAAF in July 1999 in Bydgoszcz , where he finished fourth in the long jump competition. In 2001 he became Junior European Champion in Grosseto , two years later in Bydgoszcz U23 European Champion with 8.24 m. In the same year he won the SPAR European Cup in Florence in June with 8.06 m. At his first World Championships in August 2003 in the Stade de France in Saint-Denis (Seine-Saint-Denis) he was twelfth with 7.72 m and at his first Olympic participation in August 2004 in Athens in the Olympic Stadium , he failed with 7.81 m in of qualification. At the World Indoor Championships in 2006 in the Olimpijski sports complex in Moscow , he was fourth. At the 4th World Athletics Final in September 2006 in the Gottlieb Daimler Stadium in Stuttgart , he was third with 8.29 m behind Irving Saladino and the Saudi Mohamed Salman Al Khuwalidi . At the European Athletics Indoor Championships in Birmingham in March 2007, he received a silver medal with 8.02 m behind Andrew Howe . At the 2008 Summer Olympics in the Beijing National Stadium in August 2008, he won the qualification with his first jump of 8.27 m, but he did not succeed in a single valid attempt in the final. He received a bronze medal at the Mediterranean Games 2009 in Pescara with 8.20 m. At the 2014 European Championships in Zurich , he won the silver medal with 8.15 m.

Web links

• Louis Tsatoumas in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Louis Tsatoumas on segas.gr (Greek)
• Louis Tsatoumas in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Portrait on the website of his former sponsor ( Memento from May 19, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
2. ↑ Lous Tsatoumas on european-athletics.org (English)
3. ↑ 8.66 leap by Tsatoumas in Kalamata ( Memento from September 11, 2007 in the Internet Archive ). Article by Michalis Nikitaridis from June 2, 2007 on the IAAF website
4. ↑ Tsatoumas leaps world-leading 8.21m in Peania - Greek indoor champs WRAP ( Memento from June 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive ). Article by Michalis Nikitaridis from February 21, 2011 on the IAAF website
5. ↑ Results of the 4th World Athletics Final on weltfinale.de (now in.stuttgart.de and no longer online)