Greece’s Miltos Tentoglou doubled his Olympic gold medals in the long jump on Tuesday evening at Paris’ Stade de France, with a jump of 8.48 meters in his second try – a performance good enough for first place.
The Greek champion won the gold in the same event during in 2021 during the 2020 Tokyo Games.
The back-to-back gold medals for the 25-year-old from the northern Greece city of Grevena are reminiscent of legendary track star Carl Lewis, who won the gold at the four Olympics between 1984 and 1996 in the long jump. Tentoglou’s feat also means he’s the first Greek athlete in track and field to win the gold in consecutive Games.
Jamaica’s Wayne Pinnock picked up the silver medal with jump of 8.36 meters, while Italy’s Mattei Furlani was third with a jump of 8.34 meters.
Tentoglou’s latest medal is the first gold for Greece at the XXXIII Olympiad and the seventh in total at the Paris Games – the country’s fifth-best showing so far in Olympic history. The Athens Games in 2004 saw crowd favorite Greek athletes pick up a total of 16 medals for the country’s best post-war showing. The first modern Games, also in Athens, witnessed Greek athletes pick up 47 medals.
Tentoglou Airlines ✈️
🇬🇷’s defending Olympic champion Miltiadis Tentoglou flies out to 8.48m in the men’s long jump final 🤯
Is anyone stopping him?#Paris2024 #OlympicGames pic.twitter.com/n7dCt1pAlM
— World Athletics (@WorldAthletics) August 6, 2024
Source: tovima.com
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