Career
He competed at the 2009 European Indoor Championships, the 2009 World Championships and the 2010 World Indoor Championships without reaching the final. He made a name for himself in 2005 at 19 years of age when he jumped 7.94 meters, just 1 cm short of the Swedish junior record. He set a personal best jump of 8.11 metres in June 2009 at Ullevi.
He was first in the long jump for Sweden in the 2010 European Team Championships First League section and went on to finish ninth in the event final at the 2010 European Athletics Championships.
He then finished one centimetre behind a medal in the long jump at the 2012 Summer Olympics. He began 2013 in fine form breaking the Swedish indoor long jump record.
His father was born in Democratic Republic of Congo and his mother is from the Finnish (Meänkieli) speaking region of Torne Valley in Sweden. Tornéus’ original athletics club is the Tullinge-Tumba finska förening (Finnish association of Tullinge-Tumba) track and field program
