Donation to the victims of the earthquake of the Olympic champion Miltiadis Tentoglou
Greek athlete Miltiadis Tentoglou, who won the gold medal in the long jump at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, donated 20,000 euros to AFAD for those affected by the earthquakes in Kahramanmaraş.
According to the statement from the Turkish Athletics Federation, Tentoglou, who recently won the gold medal at the European Athletics Indoor Championships in Istanbul, auctioned off the spiked shoes he wore when he was the winner of the Olympic Games.
The president of the Greek Athletics Federation, Sofia Sakorafa (right), invested this money in AFAD for the earthquake victims and handed over the relevant document to Fatih Çintimar (left), president of the Turkish Athletics Federation. Photography. AA
Tentoglou’s spiked shoes were bought for 20 thousand euros. Sofia Sakorafa, president of the Greek Athletics Federation, invested this money in AFAD for the earthquake victims. Sakorafa presented the relevant document to Fatih Çintimar, President of the Turkish Athletics Federation.
At the presidents’ meeting, Çintimar thanked Sakorafa for his support. Sakorafa, on the other hand, thanked the Turkish people for their messages of condolence over the train accident in Greece, saying, “I hope the athletic community will show this unity and solidarity not only in such disasters, but always.” he used the phrase. (AA)