1. Miltiadis "Miltos" Tentoglou is a Greek long jump athlete, who is 14th in the all time lists, but one of the best in terms of achievements, as he is a double Olympic Champion with multiple World and European titles to his name in a career which has brought him 11 gold medals.
Miltiadis Tentoglou 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.
Miltiadis Tentoglou is a six-time European champion, winning a record three consecutive outdoor titles in 2018,2022 and 2024 and a record three successive men's indoor titles between 2019 and 2023.
Miltiadis Tentoglou 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.
Miltiadis Tentoglou is the Greek indoor record holder, and has won 12 national long jump titles.
Miltiadis Tentoglou was named the Greek Male Athlete of the Year, for the years 2022 and 2023.
Miltiadis Tentoglou was born in Thessaloniki on 18 March 1998.
Miltiadis Tentoglou's paternal greatgrandfather was a Greek refugee from Anatolia.
Miltiadis Tentoglou grew up in the town of Grevena, where he spent his childhood and teenage years.
Miltiadis Tentoglou started athletics completely by accident 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.
In 2017, Miltiadis Tentoglou teamed up with recognised Greek-Bulgarian coach, Georgi Pomashki, who is his current coach.
Miltiadis 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 June 2017 at the Greek Athletics Championships in Patras, Miltiadis Tentoglou improved his national U20 record by landing at 8.30 metres.
Miltiadis 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 Torun 2021, at Munich 2022, where he set a championship record in the process, and at indoor Istanbul 2023, where he became the first man in history to claim three successive long jump titles at the European Indoors.
In May 2021 at a meeting in Athens, Miltiadis Tentoglou landed at 8.60 metres, becoming the third-best European performer of all time, behind Robert Emmiyan and compatriot Louis Tsatoumas.
In Glasgow, at the 2024 World Indoors Championships, Miltiadis Tentoglou secured his second world indoor title in an incredibly close contest.
Miltiadis Tentoglou said if this change will take place, he will retire.