Gianmarco Tamberi

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Gianmarco Tamberi (Italian pronunciation: [dʒamˈmarko tamˈbɛːri]; born 1 June 1992) is an Italian high jumper, current Olympic champion (2020), European outdoor champion (2022) and World outdoor champion (2023).^[3][4][5]

He won the 2021 Diamond League crown, becoming the first ever Italian to do so,^[6] and repeated this in 2022.^[7]

Career

Until 2022 Tamberi was coached by his father, Marco Tamberi, who held the indoor Italian record in 1983 with a height of 2.28 m.^[8]

In 2015, Tamberi broke the Italian high jump record twice—first with a jump of 2.34 m in Cologne, and second with a 2.37 m in Eberstadt, where he was second behind Derek Drouin. He later finished 8th at the 2015 World Championships in Beijing with a clearance of 2.25 m.

During winter 2016, Tamberi won every contest he participated at. He won in Banska Bystrica with 2.35 m, a new Italian indoor record, equalled by Marco Fassinotti in the same event. He won in Třinec after clearing 2.33 m. At the 2016 High Jump Moravia Tour, he recorded a jump of 2.38 m, enough to beat Chris Baker of Great Britain and Kyriakos Ioannou of Cyprus, and which gave him the Italian indoor high jump record. He won a gold medal at the World Indoor Championships in Portland in March 2016 with a jump of 2.36 m.

Tamberi was unable to compete at the 2016 Olympics due to an injury earlier in the season.

At major competitions, he is known for sporting a full beard during qualification and shaving half of it for the final.^[9]

On 1 August 2021, he along with Qatari athlete Mutaz Essa Barshim were declared tied winners of the men's high jump at the 2020 Summer Olympics after a tie between both of them as they cleared 2.37m.^[10] Both Tamberi and Barshim agreed to share the gold medal in a rare instance in Olympic history where the athletes of different nations agreed to share the same medal.^[11][12] After the failed jumps Barshim asked the referee "Can we have two golds?" and when hearing the answer was yes, embracing Tamberi saying "History, my friend".^[13][14]

At the 2022 NBA Celebrity All-Star Game, Tamberi appeared on Dominique Wilkins's team, and made a putback dunk.^[15] He was the first high jump champion to appear in the Celebrity Game.^[16]

Tamberi won the gold medal at the World Athletics Championships in Budapest, besting America's JuVaughn Harrison on a countback after both cleared the same 2.36 metres height.^[5]

Tamberi is known for competing with a half shaven face.^[17]

Statistics

National records

• High jump outdoor: 2.39 ( Monaco, 15 July 2016) - Current holder.^[18]
• High jump indoor: 2.38 ( Hustopeče, 13 February 2016) - Current holder

Progression

Best outdoor World ranking of Tamberi was 2nd in 2016, but he was indoor World leader in 2016 and 2021.^[19]

Outdoor

Year (age)	Performance	Venue	Date	World Ranking
2023 (31)	2.36 m	Budapest	22 August	1st[note 1]
2022 (30)	2.34 m	Zürich	7 September	3th
2021 (29)	2.37 m	Tokyo	1 August	1st
2020 (28)	2.30 m	Ancona	28 June	3rd
2019 (27)	2.28 m	Rome	2 October	23rd
2018 (26)	2.33 m	Eberstadt	26 August	8th
2017 (25)	2.29 m	London	18 August	29th
2016 (24)	2.39 m	Monaco	15 July	2nd
2015 (23)	2.37 m	Eberstadt	2 August	3rd
2014 (22)	2.29 m	Ancona	27 August	21st
2013 (21)	2,25 m	Milan	28 July	52nd
2012 (20)	2.31 m	Bressanone	8 July	12th
2011 (19)	2.25 m	Tallinn	23 July	55th
2010 (18)	2.14 m	Florence	6 June	-
2009 (17)	2.07 m	Bressanone	9 July	-

Indoor

Year (age)	Performance	Venue	Date	World Ranking
2021 (29)	2.35 m	Ancona	21 February	1st
2020 (28)	2.31 m	Siena	29 February	6th
2019 (27)	2.32 m	Ancona	15 February	2nd
2018 (26)	2.25 m	Hustopeče	27 January	35th
2017 (25)	he did not play the indoor season
2016 (24)	2.38 m	Hustopeče	13 February	1st
2015 (23)	2.28 m	Prague	7 March	23rd
2013 (22)	2.30 m	Banská Bystrica	6 February	11th
2012 (20)	2.20 m	Banská Bystrica	8 February	100th
		Ancona	8 January
2011 (19)	2.21 m	Ancona	13 February	70th
2010 (18)	2.10 m	Ancona	6 February

Achievements

Year	Competition	Venue	Position	Event	Measure	Notes
2010	World Junior Championships	Moncton	21st (q)	High jump	2.10 m
2011	European Junior Championships	Tallinn	3rd	High jump	2.25 m	PB =
2012	European Championships	Helsinki	5th	High jump	2.24 m	[note 2]
	Olympic Games	London	21st (q)	High jump	2.21 m
2013	European Indoor Championships	Göteborg	5th	High jump	2.29 m
	European U23 Championships	Tampere	13th (q)	High jump	2.17 m
2014	European Championships	Zürich	7th	High jump	2.26 m	SB
2015	European Indoor Championships	Prague	7th	High jump	2.24 m
	World Championships	Beijing	8th	High jump	2.25 m
2016	World Indoor Championships	Portland	1st	High jump	2.36 m
	European Championships	Amsterdam	1st	High jump	2.32 m
2017	World Championships	London	13th (q)	High jump	2.29 m	SB
2019	European Indoor Championships	Glasgow	1st	High jump	2.32 m	SB =
2021	European Indoor Championships	Toruń	2nd	High jump	2.35 m
	Olympic Games	Tokyo	1st	High jump	2.37 m	SB
2022	World Indoor Championships	Belgrade	3rd	High jump	2.31 m
	European Championships	Munich	1st	High jump	2.30 m
2023	European Team Championships	Chorzów	1st	High jump	2.29 m
	World Championships	Budapest	1st	High jump	2.36 m	SB

Circuit wins and titles

• Diamond League champion: 2021 and 2022.^[20]

Meetings

• 2015
  • London Grand Prix (Diamond League) - London, 2.28 m
  • Meeting Eberstadt - Eberstadt, 2.37 m NR
  • Weltklasse (Diamond League) - Zürich, 2.23 m (5th)
• 2016
  • High Jump Moravia Tour - Hustopeče, 2.38 m NR
  • Meeting International Mohammed VI (Diamond League) - Rabat, 2.25 m (6th)
  • Golden Gala (Diamond League) - Rome, 2.30 m
  • Müller Grand Prix (Diamond League) - Birmingham, 2.20 m (8th)
  • Herculis (Diamond League) - Monte Carlo, 2.39 m NR
• 2017
  • Meeting de Paris (Diamond League) - Paris, NM
  • Meeting International Mohammed VI (Diamond League) - Rabat, 2.27 m
  • Müller Grand Prix (Diamond League) - Birmingham, 2.20 m (7th)
  • Weltklasse (Diamond League) - Zürich, 2.16 m (12th)
• 2018
  • Athletissima (Diamond League) - Lausanne, 2.25 m (9th)
  • Herculis (Diamond League) - Monte Carlo, 2.27 m (5th) SB
  • Eberstadt Internationales Hochsprung-Meeting - Eberstadt, 2.33 m (2nd) SB
  • Memorial van Damme (Diamond League) - Brussels, 2.31 m (3rd)

National titles

Tamberi won the national championships 9 times.^[21][22]

• Italian Athletics Championships
  • High jump: 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018, 2020, 2022 (6)
• Italian Indoor Athletics Championships
  • High jump: 2016, 2019, 2021 (3)

See also

• Athletes with most medals in high jump history
• List of Italian records in athletics
• Italian all-time top lists - High jump
• Men's high jump Italian record progression

Notes

References

External links

• Gianmarco Tamberi at World Athletics
• Gianmarco Tamberi at Diamond League
• Gianmarco Tamberi at the Italian Athletics Federation (in Italian)
• Gianmarco Tamberi at Olympics.com
• Gianmarco Tamberi at Olympedia
• Gianmarco Tamberi at the Italian National Olympic Committee (in Italian)