Miltiadis “Miltos” Tentoglou is a Greek long jump athlete born on 18 March 1998. He has won major titles including gold at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and the 2024 Paris Olympics, as well as gold at the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest. In 2022, he became the World Indoor champion with a jump of 8.55 metres (setting the current Greek indoor record), and he also won silver at the outdoor World Championships that year. Tentoglou is also a highly successful European champion, including record stretches of consecutive outdoor and indoor titles, and he has earned four gold medals in the European Team Championships. Earlier in his career, he won medals at youth levels, including silver at the 2016 World Under-20 Championships and gold at the 2017 European U20 and 2019 European U23 Championships. He holds the Greek indoor record, has won 14 national long jump titles, and has received awards such as Greek Male Athlete of the Year (2022 and 2023) and BTA Best Balkan Athlete of the Year (2024). Miltiadis Tentoglou was born in Thessaloniki on 18 March 1998 and grew up in Grevena. Until he was 15, he was not involved in track and field, and he mainly did parkour. He began athletics by accident after a Greek athletics coach, Vangelis Papanikos, noticed him doing parkour and encouraged him to train; later, in 2017, he started working with coach Georgi Pomashki, his current coach. Tentoglou first competed internationally at 17 and quickly rose through junior events, breaking Greek under-20 records and winning silver at the World U20 Championships. He later became a dominant long jumper, winning multiple European titles and setting records, including Olympic gold in Tokyo 2020 and a second world indoor title in Glasgow 2024, plus winning the European and Paris Olympic titles in 2024. In 2024 he threatened to retire if World Athletics changes the long-jump take-off rules, and in 2025 he won Balkan gold. Miltiadis Tentoglou won the Diamond League long jump title in 2022. He also took major victories in 2021 at Monaco Herculis, and in 2022 he won several competitions including events in Rabat, Oslo, Stockholm, Chorzów, and Zürich. Miltiadis Tentoglou has won the Greek Athletics Championships in long jump seven times (2017, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2024, 2025). He has also won the Greek Indoor Athletics Championships in long jump seven times (2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025).

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