Thobias Montler

Thobias Montler
Thobias Montler (2019)
Full name	Thobias Nilsson Montler
nation	Sweden
birthday	15th February 1996 (age 24)
place of birth	Sweden
size	187 cm
Weight	72 kg
Career
discipline	Long jump
Best performance	Open air: 8.22 m Hall: 8.17 m
society	Malmo AI
Trainer	Yannick Tregaro
status	active
Medal table
European Indoor Championships 0 × 1 × 0 × U23 European Championships 0 × 0 × 1 × U20 European Championships 1 × 0 × 0 × Summer Universiade 0 × 2 × 0 ×
European Indoor Championships silver Glasgow 2019 Long jump  U23 European Championships bronze Bydgoszcz 2017 Long jump  U20 European Championships gold Eskilstuna 2015 4 × 100 m
last change: January 26, 2020

Thobias Nilsson Montler (born February 15, 1996 ) is a Swedish athlete who specializes in the long jump . In 2019 he became Vice European Indoor Champion in Glasgow.

Athletic career

Thobias Nilsson Montler has been taking part in long jump competitions since 2011, although he also competed in sprint and hurdles back then. In 2013 he then competed in the long jump at the U18 World Championships in Donetsk. He survived the qualification and finished eighth in the final with 7.32 m. The following year, he entered the senior age group at the U20 World Championships in Eugene. In the final he climbed to 7.65 m and took eighth place again.

In 2015 the U20 European Championships took place in his Swedish homeland, in Eskilstuna. In the long jump he was fourth with a distance of 7.68 m and was then able to win the European championship with the Swedish 4 x 100 meter relay. In 2017 Montler won bronze at the U23 European Championships in Bydgoszcz, Poland. He previously jumped the 8-meter mark for the first time in a competition in the United States in April. At the European Championships in Berlin, he took fourth place with a jump of 8.10 m and then became the Swedish champion in the long jump for the first time.

In 2019 he was runner-up at the European Indoor Championships in Glasgow with a distance of 8.17 . In the summer he set a new best with 8.22 m in the open air, with which he won the Diamond League meeting in Stockholm. He could not confirm this distance at the World Championships in oha and was ninth in the final with 7.96 m.

Major competitions

year	event	place	space	discipline	Expanse
Starts for Sweden
2013	U18 world championships	Donetsk	8th.	Long jump	7.32 m
2014	U20 world championships	Eugene	8th.	Long jump	7.65 m
2015	European Indoor Championships	Prague	21st	Long jump	7.38 m
	U20 European Championships	Eskilstuna	4th	Long jump	7.68 m
			1.	4 × 100 m	39.73 s
2017	U23 European Championships	Bydgoszcz	3.	Long jump	7.96 m
2018	European championships	Berlin	4th	Long jump	8.10 m
2019	European Indoor Championships	Glasgow	2.	Long jump	8.17 m
	World championships	Doha	9.	Long jump	7.96 m

Personal best

• Long jump: 8.22 m, May 30, 2019, Stockholm
  • Long jump (indoor): 8; 17 m, March 3, 2019, Glasgow

Web links

Commons : Thobias Nilsson Montler  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Thobias Montler in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Thobias Montler in the database of European Athletics (English)