Miltiadis Tentoglou

Miltiadis Tentoglou
Tentoglou in 2023
Personal information
Born (1998-03-18) 18 March 1998[1]
Thessaloniki, Greece[2]
Height1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)[1]
Weight75 kg (165 lb)[1]
Sport
CountryGreece
SportAthletics
Event
Long jump
ClubG.S. Kifissias
Coached byGeorgi Pomashki
Evangelos Papanikos
Achievements and titles
Highest world ranking
1st (2023)[3]
Personal bests8.66 m NR (2026)
8.55 m i NR (2022)
Medal record
Men's athletics
Representing  Greece
Event 1st 2nd 3rd
Olympic Games 2 0 0
World Championships 1 1 0
World Indoor Championships 2 0 0
Diamond League 1 0 0
European Championships 4 0 0
European Indoor Championships 3 0 0
European Games 1 0 0
Continental Cup 0 1 0
European Athletics U23 Championships 1 0 0
Balkan Athletics Championships 3 1 0
Total 18 3 0
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place2020 TokyoLong jump
Gold medal – first place2024 ParisLong jump
World Championships
Gold medal – first place2023 BudapestLong jump
Silver medal – second place2022 EugeneLong jump
World Indoor Championships
Gold medal – first place2022 BelgradeLong jump
Gold medal – first place2024 GlasgowLong jump
Diamond League
First place2022Long jump
European Championships
Gold medal – first place2018 BerlinLong jump
Gold medal – first place2022 MunichLong jump
Gold medal – first place2024 RomeLong jump
Gold medal – first place2026 BirminghamLong jump
European Indoor Championships
Gold medal – first place2019 GlasgowLong jump
Gold medal – first place2021 ToruńLong jump
Gold medal – first place2023 IstanbulLong jump
European Games
Gold medal – first place2023 Kraków-MałopolskaLong jump
European U23 Championships
Gold medal – first place2019 GävleLong jump
World Junior Championships
Silver medal – second place2016 BydgoszczLong jump
European U20 Championships
Gold medal – first place2017 GrossetoLong jump
Representing Europe Europe
Continental Cup
Silver medal – second place2018 OstravaLong jump

Miltiadis "Miltos" Tentoglou (Greek: Μιλτιάδης "Μίλτος" Τεντόγλου [miltiˈaðis te(n)ˈdoɣlu];[4] born 18 March 1998[5]) 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.[6][7][8][9][10]

He won gold at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, 2024 Paris Olympics,[11] and the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest.[12] 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,[13] 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 14 national long jump titles. He was named the Greek Male Athlete of the Year, for the years 2022 and 2023.[14] He was also named the BTA Best Balkan Athlete of the Year for 2024.[15][16][17]

Early life

Tentoglou was born in Thessaloniki on 18 March 1998.[18] His paternal great grandfather was a Greek refugee from Anatolia.[19] He grew up in the town of Grevena, where he spent his childhood and teenage years.[20]

Until 15, he had no experience in track and field. In his teenage years his hobby was parkour. He started athletics at the age of 15, at the urging of the Greek athletics coach, Vangelis Papanikos, who had watched him doing parkour in the stadium bleachers at the Grevena stadium, had recognised Tentoglou's natural talent and physical agility and became his first coach.[21] In 2017, Tentoglou teamed up with Greek-Bulgarian coach, Georgi Pomashki, who is his current coach.[22][23]

Career

Tentoglou gained his first international experience at the age of 17, at the 2015 World Under-18 Championships in Athletics held in Cali, Colombia, where he placed fifth with a jump of 7.66 metres.

In May 2016, he jumped 8.19 metres in Kalamata to break the Greek national U20 record.[24] Two months later, he won the silver medal at the World U20 Championships in Bydgoszcz, Poland for a leap of 7.91 m, behind Cuban Maykel Massó (8.00 m). The following month, Tentoglou was one of the youngest members of Hellenic expedition at the Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, where he was, however, eliminated in the qualifications (7.64 m).

In June 2017, at the Greek Athletics Championships in Patras, Tentoglou improved his national U20 record by landing at 8.30 metres.[24] In July, he went on to claim a gold at the European U20 Championships held in Grosseto, Italy, jumping 8.07 m.

He won the 2020 Summer Olympic crown in the Japan capital Tokyo with jumps of 8.41 m and 8.15 m to win on tiebreaker over Cuba's Juan Miguel Echevarría, whose two best jumps were 8.41 m and 8.09 m, with Massó third at 8.21 m. Tentoglou has won five consecutive European titles: at Berlin 2018, where he became the youngest Greek man to win a continental gold, at indoor Glasgow 2019, where he set a Greek indoor record, at indoor Toruń 2021, at Munich 2022, where he set a championship record in the process,[25] and at indoor Istanbul 2023, where he became the first man in history to claim three successive long jump titles at the European Indoors.[26] Only Hans Baumgartner has also won three, but not straight, European indoor titles.

In May 2021, at a meeting in Athens, Tentoglou landed at 8.60 metres, becoming the fourth-best European performer of all time, behind Robert Emmiyan, Sebastian Bayer and compatriot Louis Tsatoumas.[27]

At the 2022 World Indoor Championships held in Belgrade, Serbia, he improved his Greek indoor record with a jump of 8.55 metres to take the title. Tentoglou finished second at the World Championships in Eugene that year with a leap of 8.32 m, behind China's Wang Jianan (8.36 m).

In Glasgow, at the 2024 World Indoors Championships, Tentoglou secured his second world indoor title in a very close contest. With just one centimetre separating the three medalists, it matched the 2012 edition for the closest ever World Indoor Championships long jump final. Tentoglou won on tiebreaker with jumps of 8.22 m and 8.19 m, beating Mattia Furlani, who had jumps of 8.22 m and 8.10 m, and Carey McLeod, who jumped 8.21 m.[28]

In June 2024, at the European Athletics Championships, he extended his championship record by jumping 8.65 m twice, taking the gold medal again and setting a new PB.

In August 2024, at Paris's Olympic Games he maintained his Olympic title with a leap of 8.48 m, making him the only jumper after Carl Lewis with a back-to-back Olympic gold medal in the long jump.

In September 2024, he spoke out against the World Athletics Federation's intention to replace the wooden jumping board with a take off zone. He said if this change will take place, he will retire.[29]

In July 2025, he won the gold medal at the 77th Balkan Athletics Championships.[30]

In July 2026, Tentoglou delivered the finest series of his career at the Greek Championships in Volos, recording three jumps beyond 8.60 m. He opened with a wind-legal 8.52 m before jumping a wind-assisted 8.66 m (2.7 m/s) in the second round. Tentoglou then matched that distance with a legal 1.0 m/s tailwind in round three, improving his PB by one centimetre and equalling the national record set by Louis Tsatoumas in 2007. Tentoglou, who moved to joint 13th on the world all-time list and joint third among Europeans, completed his series with another leap of 8.64 m (0.7 m/s) in the final round.[31]

Tentoglou won the gold medal at the 2026 European Championships with a jump of 8.44m.[32] It was his fourth European outdoor title.[33]

Honours - International competitions

At Istanbul 2023, Tentoglou claimed his fifth consecutive European title.
Representing  Greece
YearCompetitionVenuePositionResult
2015 World Youth Championships Cali, Colombia 5th 7.66 m
2016 World U20 Championships Bydgoszcz, Poland 2nd 7.91 m
Olympic Games Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 27th (q) 7.64 m
2017 European Athletics Team Championships Lille, France 5th 7.76 m
European U20 Championships Grosseto, Italy 1st 8.07 m
World Championships London, United Kingdom 19th (q) 7.79 m
2018 World Indoor Championships Birmingham, United Kingdom 9th 7.82 m
Balkan Championships Stara Zagora, Bulgaria 1st 8.17 m
European Championships Berlin, Germany 1st 8.25 m SB
Continental Cup Ostrava, Czech Republic 2nd 8.00 m
2019 European Indoor Championships Glasgow, United Kingdom 1st 8.38 m WL NR
European U23 Championships Gävle, Sweden 1st 8.32 m EL
European Team Championships Bydgoszcz, Poland 1st 8.30 m
Balkan Championships Pravets, Bulgaria 2nd 7.88 m
World Championships Doha, Qatar 10th 7.79 m
2021 European Indoor Championships Toruń, Poland 1st 8.35 m WL
European Team Championships Cluj-Napoca, Romania 1st 8.38 m CR
Olympic Games Tokyo, Japan 1st 8.41 m
2022 World Indoor Championships Belgrade, Serbia 1st 8.55 m WL NR
World Championships Eugene, United States 2nd 8.32 m
European Championships Munich, Germany 1st 8.52 m SB CR
2023 European Indoor Championships Istanbul, Turkey 1st 8.30 m
European Team Championships Chorzów, Poland 1st 8.34 m
World Championships Budapest, Budapest 1st 8.52 m SB
2024 World Indoor Championships Glasgow, United Kingdom 1st 8.22 m
European Championships Rome, Italy 1st 8.65 m PB CR
Olympic Games Paris, France 1st 8.48 m
2025 World Indoor Championships Nanjing, China 5th 8.14 m
European Team Championships Madrid, Spain 1st 8.46 m CR
Balkan Championships Volos, Greece 1st 8.07 m
World Championships Tokyo, Japan 11th 7.83 m
2026 World Indoor Championships Toruń, Poland 6th 8.19 m
Balkan Championships Volos, Greece 1st 8.36 m
European Championships Birmingham, UK 1st 8.44 m

Circuit wins and titles

National titles

  • Greek Athletics Championships
    • Long jump (9): 2017 (8.30 m NU20R), 2018 (8.24 m), 2019 (8.22 m), 2021 (8.48 m), 2022, 2023 (8.38 m), 2024 (8.42 m/wind: +2.3), 2025 (8.12 m), 2026 (8.66 m =NR)
  • Greek Indoor Athletics Championships
    • Long jump (7): 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025

References

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