Tamberi and Barshim Share Olympic High Jump Gold Medal

Tamberi and Barshim Share Olympic High Jump Gold Medal. In the latest sports news, Gianmarco Tamberi and Mutaz Essa Barshim delivered one of the emotional peaks of the Tokyo Olympics. By sharing the gold medal in the high jump, will not repeat the move if they are tied again.

“We’ve talked about it; it won’t happen again,” said Tamberi from Italy ahead of his first match. This is the first match with his Qatari friends since the Olympics at the Doha Diamond League meeting on Friday (12 May). Barshim, 30, who holds the world title as well as Olympic gold together, sat beside Tamberi. As he made a statement about the extraordinary events of August 1 last year. Both cleared 2.37 meters, and neither was able to make 2.39 meters.

Trackman offers a Jump

The trackman offers a jump, but Barshim famously asks: “Can we get two gold?” It was the latest episode in their unexpected friendship competition. That he had seen them comfort each other when each had career-threatening ankle ligament injuries. But with the world championships looming this year, both know that sentiment must be put aside. If they were tied up again, “we’ll see each other, we’ll say OK, let’s go” to the jump, Tamberi said at a press conference Thursday.

“For myself, I will never go back in time and change what we have done. We will forever remember as brothers and friends. We both won because we both deserved that gold medal. When they asked us if you would share again, we said ‘no’ because we have done it once. But that doesn’t mean we are not proud of it. I will never change the past even if you pay me or guarantee me that I will be the one to win that gold medal; I going to share it with him because I know he deserves it; I know I deserve it.”

Mutaz Essa Barshim’s Third Medal Target

Tamberi wants to add a world title to her Olympic gold. Barshim is looking to establish his name among great athletics athletes by becoming the first to win three consecutive high jump titles at the world championships in Eugene in July. The Qatari hero said it was “amazing” to be the first to defend his world title in Doha in 2019.

“Now I’m trying to find some goals, some targets to motivate myself, and maybe it’s better to be the only one to do it three times, so it keeps me going. It’s not easy to find motivation after such a big year and success.” Their competition will be the highlight of this year’s Diamond League opening encounter. Swedish pole vaulter Armand Duplantis will be eyeing a new world record after setting his latest best run of 6.20m at the world championships. indoors in Belgrade in March. Nobody cleared the 6.0 meters on the Doha outdoor track. But he is also eyeing the first-world title to add to his Olympic gold and has set up five competitions before World Championships.

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