Miltiadis Tentoglou simply can’t cease successful main titles.
The 26-year-old is the reigning world lengthy bounce champion each indoors and out, whereas the identical applies in the case of the European Championships. He’ll now want to create space in his trophy cupboard for a second Olympic gold medal, too, turning 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 disillusioned, dedicating his success to a nation on the coronary heart of the Olympic motion.
“I’d say this Miltiadis Tentoglou provides to his medal pile in Paris is for my nation,” he stated. “Greece is the nation that invented the Olympics, so I’m completely happy to do it for them.”
Wayne Pinnock’s greatest bounce 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 season, in addition to underlining Jamaica’s rising power 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 in a position to name himself an Olympic medallist because of a gap bounce 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 stated. “We’ve 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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