| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | Anael-Thomas Gogois |
| Nationality | French |
| Born | 24 June 2000 |
| Sport | |
| Sport | Athletics |
| Event | Triple jump |
| Achievements and titles | |
| Personal best(s) | Triple jump: 17.38m (Rome, 2024) |
Medal record | |
Thomas Gogois (born 24 June 2000) is a French triple jumper. He won the bronze medal at the 2024 European Championships in Rome and competed at the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris. [1]
He is a member of Amiens UC Athletics having joined the club at the age of six years-old. He started out as a sprinter but from the age of 15 years-old began to specialise in the triple jump. [2] [3] He has been trained by Alain Doré in Amiens since he was 15 years old, apart from one season spent at the National Institute of Sport and Performance (INSEP) in Paris. [4] [5]
He was a bronze medalist at the 2021 European Athletics U23 Championships in Tallinn, Estonia, with a best jump of 16.65 metres. [6] [7]
By 2022, he had become a professional athlete. [8] He finished in second place at the 2022 French Indoor Athletics Championships in Miramas in February 2022. He went into the event with a personal best of 16.57 metres, but increased it to 16.63 metres on the day. [9] [10]
He jumped a personal best of 16.87m in Forbach in May 2024. [11] He was a bronze medalist at the 2024 European Athletics Championships in Rome with a personal best jump of 17.38m, the first time he had jumped over 17 metres. [12] [13] [14] He competed in the triple jump at the 2024 Paris Olympics where he jumped 16.77 metres but did not progress to the final, missing out on a qualifying mark by 2 centimetres. [15]
He was selected for the 2025 European Athletics Indoor Championships in Appeldoorn, Netherlands, where he placed fourth overall in the triple jump final with a best jump of 16.51 metres. [16] [17] He finished third in the 2025 Diamond League event at the 2025 Meeting de Paris in June 2025 and fifth the following month in Monaco at the 2025 Herculis. [18] [19]
