Miltiadis "Miltos" Tentoglou ( el, Μιλτιάδης Τεντόγλου ; born 18 March 1998) is a Greek

long jumper The long jump is a track and field event in which athletes combine speed, strength and agility in an attempt to leap as far as possible from a takeoff point. Along with the triple jump, the two events that measure jumping for distance as a gr ...

. He won the gold medal at the

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. In 2022, Tentoglou became the World Indoor champion jumping the current Greek indoor record of 8.55 metres, which places him sixth on the respective world all-time list, and took silver at the outdoor World Championships. He is a five-time European champion, winning two consecutive outdoor titles in

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and

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and a record three consecutive men's indoor titles between

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and

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. He was the 2016 World Under-20 Championships silver medallist, and 2017 European U20 and 2019 European U23 champion. Tentoglou was the

2022 Diamond League The 2022 Diamond League was the thirteenth season of the Diamond League, an annual series of outdoor track and field meetings, organised by World Athletics. The competition was a revision to the top level sport of athletics, athletics series sinc ...

long jump champion.

Career

Miltiadis Tentoglou has won five consecutive European titles: at the

2018 European Championships The 2018 European Championships were the first edition of the European Championships. It was a multi-sport event which took place in Berlin, Germany, and Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom (with Edinburgh hosting the diving events and Gleneagles ...

in Berlin, where he became the youngest Greek man to win a continental gold, the 2019 European Indoor Championships in Glasgow, the 2021 European Indoor Championships in Toruń, the

2022 European Championships The 2022 European Championships were the second edition of the European Championships. It was a multi-sport event which took place in Munich, Germany from 11 to 21 August 2022. The tournament began three days after the conclusion of the 2022 Commo ...

in Munich, where he set a championship record in the process, and the 2023 European Indoor Championships in Istanbul, where he became the first man in history to secure three consecutive long jump titles at a European Indoors. Tentoglou holds an outdoor personal best of .

Achievements

International competitions

Circuit wins and titles

Diamond League The Diamond League is an annual series of elite track and field athletic competitions comprising fourteen of the best invitational athletics meetings. The series sits in the top tier of the World Athletics (formerly known as the IAAF) one-day mee ...

long jump champion: Diamond blue

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Monaco Herculis The Herculis is an annual track and field meet at Stade Louis II in Fontvieille, Monaco. Previously one of the five IAAF Super Grand Prix events, it is now part of the Diamond League. World records Over the course of its history, five world reco ...

: Rabat Meeting International Mohammed VI d'Athlétisme, Oslo Bislett Games, Stockholm BAUHAUS-galan, Chorzów Kamila Skolimowska Memorial (),

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National titles

* Greek Athletics Championships: 2017 (8.30 m ), 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022 *

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: 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023

References

External links

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Official Tentoglou Family Website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Tentoglou, Miltiadis Living people 1998 births Greek male long jumpers Olympic athletes of Greece Athletes (track and field) at the 2016 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Grevena Greek European Athletics champions (track and field) European Athletics Indoor Championships winners Athletes (track and field) at the 2020 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic gold medalists in athletics (track and field) Olympic gold medalists for Greece World Athletics Indoor Championships winners