He won another lead for 2024, as the Greek track champion, was voted the top of the Balkans by the Bulgarian news agency. In 8th place Kostas Sloukas Greek color had the 51st vote of the Bulgarian News Agency (BTA) for the top athlete of the year 2024 in the Balkans, as at the ceremony held at the National Club Press in Sofia, Miltos Tentoglou triumphed, taking 1st place. CORVERSE The traditional vote included the national bodies of the Balkan countries: BTA (Bulgaria), Athens-Macedonian News Agency (Greece), AGERPRES (Romania), Anadolu Agency (Turkey), TANJUG (Serbia), MINA (Montenegro), MIA (Republic of Northern Macedonia), HINA (Croatia), FENA (Bosnia-Herzegovina), KNA (Cyprus), ATA (Albania) and KosovaPress (Kosovo). Tentoglou who emerged in 2024 Olympic champion, world closed track champion and European champion in long jump garnered 61 points. Under the instructions of Bulgarian coach George Pomaski, Tentoglou is the first Greek athlete to finish the vote for 15 years. The last time was Vassilis Spanoulis in 2009. Tedoglou was absent from the ceremony as he prepares hard in Greece for the beginning of the winter season at the end of the month and BTA director-general Kiril Valchev awarded the award to the general director of the Athens-Macedonian News Agency (APE-BE), Emilio Perdari. CORVERSE 2nd place with just 2 points less was taken by the Olympic champion and European champion in the 200m free, but also a bronze medalist in the 100m free in Paris 2024, Popovic. The award was received on his behalf by the Consultant at the Romanian Embassy in Sofia Zenovia Popa. Third with 56 points was Jokic, who became a most valuable NBA player and helped Serbia conquer bronze at the Paris Olympics. The award was awarded to Serbia’s superintendent in Bulgaria Zarica Avramovic-Zivkovic. Nasar and Djokovic had 47 points. Swimmer David Popovici (Romania) and NBA star Nikola Jocic (Serbia) completed the first triad, while fourth place was shared by Bulgarian weightlifter Carlos Nassar and Serbian tennis star Novak Djokovic. Panathinaikos leader Kostas Sloukas (Greece), ranked eighth with 23 points, cashing in the title in Euroleague and his MVP of the Final Four of the event. The ninth with 22 points was the Olympic champion in the 200 meters high and European champion in the 50 and 100 meters high Apostle Christos (Greece).
Milos Tentoglou became top Balkan athlete in Bulgarian news agency vote
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