Tamberi usurped Barshim’s throne in the high jump

The Qatari Mutaz Essa Barshimchasing his fourth consecutive world title, gave up his throne by high jump king in Italian Gianmarco Tamberiwho was promoted to 2.36 meters to take gold and become the new international reference of the specialty.

Barshimwho last month won in Silesia but lost in London to the American juvaughn harrisonwho left Budapest with silver, lived a fateful night at the National Athletics Center in the Hungarian city.

Tamberi, with a height of 1.91 meters, his unmistakable long hair and a charisma that drags the masses, he came out very motivated from the start on the track. The proof is that when his name was announced over the public address system for the presentation of the contest, he sat on the drums of the musicians who were enlivening the competition and held the drumsticks for a few seconds to make sounds from the instrument.

It also helped him that the match was below the stadium where the majority of the Italian fans who arrived at the venue gathered, causing everyone to jump to cheer, regardless of the result.

The Italian, who celebrated the victory by raising his arms in the air and looking to the sky, claimed victory with a better jump of 2.36 meters, the same record as JuVaughn Harrison, who took longer to reach the mark that, so that second place

Barshim, who has three Olympic medals to his credit (one gold and two silver), added to this bronze his fifth world medal after gold medals at London 2017, Doha 2019 and Eugene 2022 and the silver at Moscow 2013 .At 32 years old He saw his high jump throne burst.

The Qatari aspired to be the heir to Cuban Javier Sotomayor and was left with a best jump of 2.33, far from his best mark of 2.43.

“Barshim is not in his best form today but he is the best at the moment and don’t know if he can beat my record”, Sotomayor, who has held the high jump world record for over thirty years, told EFE on August 16, 1993 in Salamanca (Spain) with 2.45 meters.