Miltiadis Tentoglou produced one of the longest jumps of his glittering career at the Cyprus International Athletics Meeting in Nicosia, a World Athletics Continental Tour Bronze meeting, on Friday (29) evening.
Tentoglou won the long jump with a fifth round mark of 8.49m, the sixth longest jump of his career and his best jump since setting his lifetime best of 8.65m at the 2024 European Athletics Championships in Rome.
Tentoglou also extended his world lead by three centimetres after jumping 8.46m for victory in the Xiamen Diamond League on Saturday evening.
Tentoglou is targeting a fourth long jump title at the 2026 European Athletics Championships in Birmingham from 10-16 August, a feat which would match Heike Drechsler’s haul of four titles in the women’s long jump between 1986 and 1998.
Over 6.00m for Karalis
Tentoglou’s friend and long-time teammate Emmanouil Karalis achieved his first 6.00m vault of the outdoor season. The perennial major silver medallist behind Armand Duplantis cleared 6.00m on his first attempt before taking two aborted attempts at a world leading height of 6.15m
This was Karalis' 18th competition and 20th jump over the landmark height of 6.00m.
Other highlights included Ukraine’s Iryna Budzynska winning the long jump with a lifetime best of 6.82m and European U20 champion Iosif Kesidis from Cyprus winning the hammer, also with a lifetime best of 77.84m.
Full results here
Tentoglou’s 10 longest career jumps
8.65m – Rome (2024)
8.60m – Athens/Kallithea (2021)
8.55m – Belgrade (2022)
8.52m – Budapest (2023)
8.52m – Munich (2022)
8.49m – Limassol (2026)
8.48m – Patras (2021)
8.48m – Paris (2024)
8.46m – Madrid (2025)
8.46m – Xiamen (2026)