Mattias Sunneborn

Mattias Sunneborn (born 27 September 1970 in Bunge, Gotland) is a Swedish long jumper. He was an Olympic finalist in 1996. He was the 1996 European Indoor Champion and 1995 World Indoor silver medalist.

His personal best jump is 8.21 metres, achieved in June 1996 in Malmö.^[1]

As of 2018, he is still an active masters athlete. He won the M40 400 metres at the 2015 World Masters Athletics Championships just weeks before his 45th birthday.

Sunneborn was in his youth engaged to Sweden's future Minister of Culture and Democracy, Alice Bah Kuhnke.^[2]

Competition record edit

Year	Competition	Venue	Position	Event	Notes
Representing Sweden
1989	European Junior Championships	Varaždin, Yugoslavia	8th	Long jump	7.49 m^[3]
1991	World Championships	Tokyo, Japan	32nd (q)	Long jump	7.61 m
1992	European Indoor Championships	Genoa, Italy	11th	Long jump	7.70 m
1993	World Indoor Championships	Toronto, Canada	18th (q)	Long jump	7.61 m
	World Championships	Stuttgart, Germany	8th	4 × 100 m relay	39.22 s
	World Championships	Stuttgart, Germany	31st (q)	Long jump	7.78 m
1994	European Indoor Championships	Paris, France	7th	Long jump	7.96 m
1994	European Championships	Helsinki, Finland	9th	Long jump	7.85 m
1995	World Indoor Championships	Barcelona, Spain	2nd	Long jump	8.20 m NR
1995	World Championships	Gothenburg, Sweden	25th (q)	Long jump	7.67 m
1996	European Indoor Championships	Stockholm, Sweden	1st	Long jump	8.06 m
1996	Olympic Games	Atlanta, United States	8th	Long jump	8.06 m
1997	World Indoor Championships	Paris, France	15th (q)	Long jump	7.81 m
1997	World Championships	Athens, Greece	21st (q)	Long jump	7.72 m
1998	European Indoor Championships	Valencia, Spain	9th	Long jump	7.68 m
1998	European Championships	Budapest, Hungary	5th	Long jump	8.01 m
2000	European Indoor Championships	Valencia, Spain	18th (q)	Long jump	7.54 m
2000	Olympic Games	Sydney, Australia	29th (q)	Long jump	7.63 m
2001	World Championships	Edmonton, Canada	20th (q)	Long jump	7.63 m

^ Swedish athletics records Archived 2007-07-01 at the Wayback Machine
^ "Sunneborns okända förlovning – med Alice Bah Kuhnke". Expressen (in Swedish). Retrieved 2018-06-03.
^ "Archived copy". www.wjah.co.uk. Archived from the original on 31 August 2013. Retrieved 17 January 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

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