Domestic Championships Record
1996 – ESAA Championships (triple jump) gold
1998 – AAA Indoor U17 Championships gold
1999 – AAA U20 Championships gold
2000 – AAA Indoor Championships gold
2001 – AAA Indoor Championships gold
2002 – Commonwealth Games Trials gold. AAA Championships silver
2003 – AAA Indoor Championships gold
2004 – AAA Indoor Championships gold. AAA Championships gold
2005 – AAA Indoor Championships silverbr> 2006 – AAA Championships silver
2007 – Norwich Union World Champs Trials gold
2008 – AAA Indoor Championships gold
2009 – Aviva UK Indoor Championships gold
2009 – Aviva World Champs Trials gold
2010 – Aviva European Trials & UK Championships gold. Aviva World Indoor Trials silver
2012 – Aviva Olympic Trials & UK Championships bronze
2013 – Sainsbury's British Championships gold. British Athletics European Indoor Trials & UK Championships silver

Major Championships and International Record
2013 – European Athletics Indoor Championships 7th
2012 – Olympic Games 6th. European Championships 5th q
2011 – IAAF World Championships 11th. Spar European Team Championships 6th
2010 – European Championships bronze. Commonwealth Games NM
2009 – IAAF World Championships 8th. European Team Championships 5th
2008 – Olympic Games 27th q. World Indoor Championships silver
2006 – European Championships 9th
2004 – Olympic Games 5th
2007 – IAAF World Championships 16th q. European Indoor Championships 5th
2006 – Commonwealth Games 6tyh
2004 – IAAF World Indoor Championships 6th. European Cup gold
2005 – IAAF World Championships 4th q
2003 – IAAF World Championships 9th
2002 – European Championships 6th. Commonwealth Games 6th. European Cup gold
2001 – European U23 Championships 6th

Chris showed great raw talent at both the long and triple jump and won eight AAA age group titles. Despite breaking both his wrists in a weight training accident in 2002, he returned in April of that year to break Lynn Davies 34 year old British Long Jump record with 8.27m in Tallahassee. He won the European Cup and became a consistent finalist at major championships, finishing sixth at the Commonwealth Games and European Championships in 2002, followed by a ninth place finish at the 2003 World Championships in Paris.

2004 was arguably his most consistent season, recording eight competitions over 8m (indoors and outdoors), including setting a national record at the World Indoor Championships in Budapest, winning the European Cup for a second time as well as finishing a very creditable fifth at the Olympic Games, jumping 8.23m in qualification, then 8.25m in the final.

Having missed most of the 2005 season through injury, Tomlinson was slightly under-par in 2006 but had a very good start to 2007, where he broke his own British record in June, improving his mark by two centimetres, but despite a good run of form, Tomlinson failed to make the world final in Osaka.

Likewise, the 2008 campaign started well, before slowly petering out. Tomlinson improved his British indoor record by one centimetre in Stuttgart, before winning a world indoor silver medal in Valencia but could not rediscover this sort of form for the outdoor campaign, and was a disappointing fifth at the Olympic Trials.

Having been selected, his Olympic ambitions were put on hold again, as he injured his calf at Crystal Palace, which forced him to withdraw mid-competition and having just recovered in time for Beijing, Tomlinson did not do himself justice, only managing 7.70m in qualification.

In 2009 he jumped more times over 8.00m than ever before and after an early season 8:23m in Italy he was unable to improve on that mark. He qualified for the World Championships Final with 8.06m and in the final repeated that to finish in a respectable 8th place. 2010 saw him clinch the bronze medal in Barcelona at the European Championships with a season's best of 8.23m and at the Commonwealth Games in Delhi after qualifying for the final he landed awkwardly and was stretchered off with a damaged ankle but returned for the final and understandably was way below-par and didn't record a distance to qualify for the final eight places. 2011 saw him extend the UK record to 8.35m in Paris. 2012 was a frustrating year for Tomlinson after injuries held back his season with some lowly marks before exploding into form at the London DIamond League with a 8.26m leap. A sixth place in the Olympic final was a solid performance but it was a 'what might have been' performance in his eyes.

In 2008, he wed his West End actress girlfriend and a former Miss Newcastle, Lucia Rovardi.