Background and career
Miltiadis "Miltos" Tentoglou (Greek: Μιλτιάδης "Μίλτος" Τεντόγλου [miltiˈaðis te(n)ˈdoɣlu]; born 18 March 1998) is a Greek long jumper who has won two Olympic gold medals, one World Championship gold medal and four European Championship gold medals. He is regarded as one of the greatest long jumpers of all time, having won the sport's major international titles.
He won gold at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, 2024 Paris Olympics, and the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest. In 2022, Tentoglou became the World Indoor champion jumping the current Greek indoor record of 8.55 metres, which places him sixth best indoor on the world all-time list, and took silver at the outdoor World Championships. He is a seven-time European champion, winning a record four consecutive outdoor titles in 2018, 2022, 2024 and 2026 and a record three successive men's indoor titles between 2019-2023. He also won the long jump discipline four times at the European Athletics Team Championships.
He had been a silver medallist at the 2016 World Under-20 Championships and won gold at the 2017 European U20 and 2019 European U23 Championships. Tentoglou was also 2022 Diamond League Champion at the event. He is the Greek indoor record holder, and has won 16 national long jump titles, he won 9 national long jump titles outdoor and 7 indoor. He was named the Greek Male Athlete of the Year, for the years 2022 and 2023. He was also named the BTA Best Balkan Athlete of the Year for 2024.
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