updated event weight height sport birth_date article_title
15 august 2012 long jump 69 kg lb on 1.74 athletics 10 september 1991 eusebio cáceres

eusebio cáceres

eusebio cáceres -lrb- born 10 september 1991 in onil -rrb- is a spanish track and field athlete who specialises in the long jump .
he began competing in a wide variety of events at the start of his junior career , including the decathlon .
he won the long jump bronze medal at the 2008 world junior championships in athletics .
his first senior gold medal in the event soon followed at the 2009 european team championships , where he jumped a personal best of eight metres , and he also reached the semi-finals of the 100 metres at the 2009 european athletics junior championships .
he helped the spanish 4 × 100 metres relay team to sixth in the event final in a national junior record time of 40.03 seconds .
cáceres set the world junior best mark of 5984 points in the indoor heptathlon at the 2010 spanish junior championships .
he chose to compete in his speciality at the 2010 world junior championships in athletics and won the long jump silver medal , finishing behind luvo manyonga .
in the long jump qualifying rounds at the 2010 european athletics championships , he cleared a european junior record distance of 8.27 m to top the rankings .
he failed to repeat that form in the final round , finishing eighth , but his jump remained the best of that year 's tournament with the sole exception of christian reif 's championship record effort of 8.47 m .
it was also the second best mark by any european athlete that year , ranking him in the top eight of the discipline worldwide in 2010 .
