Miltiadis Tentoglou adds to his medal pile in Paris

Miltiadis Tentoglou simply can’t cease profitable main titles.

The 26-year-old is the reigning world lengthy soar champion each indoors and out, whereas the identical applies on the subject of the European Championships. He’ll now want to create space in his trophy cupboard for a second Olympic gold medal, too, changing into the primary man to win back-to-back titles on this occasion since Carl Lewis.

A second-round leap of 8.48m (0.0) on the Stade de France secured that prize – a efficiency he described as “respectable”. But the Greek was hardly dissatisfied, dedicating his success to a nation on the coronary heart of the Olympic motion.

“I might say this Miltiadis Tentoglou provides to his medal pile in Paris is for my nation,” he mentioned. “Greece is the nation that invented the Olympics, so I’m joyful to do it for them.”

Wayne Pinnock’s greatest soar of the evening additionally got here together with his second try, a leap of 8.36m (-0.2) giving him second spot and a convincing follow-up to his world silver from final summer time, in addition to underlining Jamaica’s rising energy within the horizontal jumps.

The event of the 19-year-old Italian Mattia Furlani additionally continues at tempo, the world indoor and European silver medallist now capable of name himself an Olympic medallist due to a gap soar of 8.34m (-1.0) that had put him into an early lead.

The British champion Jacob Fincham-Dukes positioned fifth with 8.14m (-1.4).

“It’s one thing particular on the market,” he mentioned. “We have now 70,000 individuals all going electrical. It’s different worldly. There was a sea of British flags. You virtually really feel personalised with every of them. I had them proper there behind me and it felt superb.”

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