18th February 2013 12:37
Torneus grabbed the headlines for the host nation on a weekend of national championships and trials across Europe.
His winning long jump of 8.15m took him to joint second in the European Athletics rankings with Yeoryios Tsakonas of Greece, the pair just seven centimetres behind Russian Aleksandr Menkov.
The performance gives Torneus a greater platform to attack a medal next week and carry on his progress having won bronze at the European Athletics Championships in Helsinki last summer.
He was third with a jump of 8.17m in Finland as Germany's Sebastien Bayer won gold with 8.34m and Luis Meliz, of Spain, was second with 8.21m.
But that display led to Torneus, 26, winning the award as Sweden's athlete of 2012 and he will look to make the podium again at his third European Athletics Indoor Championships. In Torino in 2009 he was 17th in qualifying with 7.58m, and two years ago in Paris he finished seventh with 7.84m.
Even though it is not an individual event on the programme, Swedish athletics is in healthy position for the future.
At just 17, Irene Ekelund made further steps by improving the national 200m record to 23.15 while high jumper Emma Green Tregaro increased her season's best to 1.94m.
Alhaji Jeng won the pole vault with a clearance of 5.55m but in second, Melker Svard Jakobsson, 19, broke the country's junior record as he went over at 5.45m.
But as Renaud Lavillenie showed in France, much greater heights will be needed to challenge for a medal in Göteborg.
The Olympic champion was top of the world rankings even before the French National Championships in Aubiere, but just for good measure he took his best of the winter from 5.92m to 5.93m as he beat Stanley Joseph and Romain Mesnil, both of 5.62m.
In Pombal, Portugal, Sara Moreira, the 3000m silver medallist from Torino, completed an excellent double. Having won the 1500m, she then won a high-class 3000m in 8:55.24 ahead of Carla Rocha in 9:10.86.
Moreira has run quicker this winter with 8:52.48 and she should be in the mix in Göteborg.
No athlete gained greater success over the winter than Ireland's Fionnuala Britton as she won the SPAR European Cross Country title in Budapest before a series of other international triumphs.
She remains determined to make an impact on the track and in Athlone at the weekend, she showed how with a personal best of 4:13.96 in the 1500m.
But at the distance, it was a run by an Irishman that caught the eye at the Millrose Games in New York on Saturday as Ciaran O'Lionaird won in 3:36.85 which propelled him to the top of the European rankings.
Dafne Schippers confirmed the fine shape she is in by winning the 60m at the Dutch National Championships in Apeldoorn in 7.26 while in Sabadell, Kevin Lopez won the 800m at the Spanish National Championships in a tactical race in 1:49.82.
There was a 12th consecutive high jump title for Ruth Beitia with 1.90m while Juan Carlos Higuero won the 3000m in 7:55.82.
Martin Stasek established the European lead with a shot put of 20.73m with a superb series at the Czech Republic's championships in Praha. He is having quite a year, having improved his personal best to 19.78m in January before, on Sunday, he delivered efforts of 20.16m, 20.73m and 20.14m.
In Spala, Poland, there were good wins for Dominik Bochenek with 7.73 in the 60m hurdles and Grzegorz Sobinski in the 400m and in Peania, a second-time clearance at 5.60m saw Konstadínos Filippídis crowned as Greece's pole vault champion.
Finland's Nooralotta Neziri recorded a national record of 8.07 in the 60m hurdles heats in Jyvaskyla but then false started in the final which Elisa Leinonen won in 8.22.
But even quicker was Sara Aerts, who was the star of the one-day Belgium Championships in Gent as she won the 60m hurdles in a personal best of 8.01 and produced her quickest ever time to triumph in the 60m flat in 7.41.
Estonia's high jump record-holder Anna Iljustsenko won with 1.85m in Tallinn and Kuldiga, there was a fine 60m hurdles victory from by Latvia's Stanislavs Olijars in 7.98.
Now 33, he won the 110m hurdles gold at the European Athletics Championships in Göteborg in 2006 and could be set for an emotional return to the city.
In Novi Sad, Serbia's Ivana Spanovic improved her national indoor long jump record to 6.65m while in Osijek, Croatia, national record holder Ivan Horvat cleared 5.40m to win the pole vault.