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Kafetien GOMIS

Kafetien GOMIS - France - Finalist at 2015 World Champs & 2016 Rio Olympic Games.

Photo/Foto: George Herringshaw

Date: 25 August 2015

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    • DATE OF BIRTH
      Sunday, 23 March 1980
    • PLACE OF BIRTH
      Saint-Quentin, France
  • INTERNATIONAL
  • France
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Kafetien GOMIS - France - Finalist at 2015 World Champs & 2016 Rio Olympic Games.

Kafétien Gomis in action at the Beijing World Championship in 2015

where he finished 7th with a leap just over 8 metres.

 

He almost exactly repeated the performance at the Rio Olympic Games:

8th with 8.05m.

 

 2015 World Championships.


1.
 Greg  RUTHERFORD  GBR  8.41 SB
2.
 Fabrice  LAPIERRE  AUS  8.24 SB
3.  Wang  JIANAN  CHN  8.18
4.  Gao  XINGLONG  CHN  8.14 SB
5.  Li  JINZE  CHN  8.10
6.  Aleksandr   MENKOV  RUS  8.10
7.  Kafétien   GOMIS  FRA  8.02
8.  Sergey   POLYANSKIY  RUS  7.97

 

2016 Rio Olympic Games.

Men's long jump final result.


 1.    Jeff Henderson   United States     8.38
 SB
 2.    Luvo Manyonga   South Africa    8.37  PB
 3.    Greg Rutherford   Great Britain
   8.29
 
 4.    Jarrion Lawson    United States    8.25
 
 5.    Wang Jianan    China
   8.17
 
 6.    Emiliano Lasa    Uruguay
   8.10
 
 7.    Henry Frayne   
   Australia
   8.06
 
 8.    Kafétien Gomis 
   France
   8.05