Mutaz Essa Barshim

Mutaz Essa Barshim
Mutaz Essa Barshim in Łódź 2016
nation	Qatar
birthday	24th June 1991 (age 29)
place of birth	Doha , Qatar
size	192 cm
Weight	70 kg
Career
discipline	high jump
Best performance	2.43 m
Trainer	Stanislaw Szczyrba
status	active
Medal table
Olympic games 0 × 1 × 1 × World championships 2 × 1 × 0 × Indoor world championships 1 × 1 × 0 × Asian Games 2 × 0 × 0 × Asian Championships 1 × 0 × 1 × Indoor Asian Championships 5 × 0 × 0 × Junior World Championships 1 × 0 × 0 ×
Olympic games bronze London 2012 2.29 m silver Rio de Janeiro 2016 2.36 m  World championships silver Moscow 2013 2.38 m gold London 2017 2.35 m gold Doha 2019 2.37 m  Indoor world championships gold Sopot 2014 2.38 m silver Birmingham 2018 2.33 m  Asian Games gold Guangzhou 2010 2.27 m gold Incheon 2014 2.35 m Asian Championships gold Kobe 2011 2.35 m bronze Wuhan 2015 2.20 m Indoor Asian Championships gold Tehran 2010 2.20 m gold Hangzhou 2012 2.37 m gold Hangzhou 2014 2.36 m gold Doha 2016 2.35 m gold Tehran 2018 2.38 m  Junior World Championships gold Moncton 2010 2.30 m
last change: October 4th, 2019

Mutaz Essa Barshim ( Arabic معتز عيسى برشم, DMG Muʿtazz ʿĪsā Baršim ; * June 24, 1991 in Doha ) is a Qatari high jumper . His greatest success is the world championship title in 2017 and 2019. His younger brother Muamer Aissa Barsham is also successful as a high jumper.

Career

Barshim began his athletic career in the youth field as a walker and long-distance runner before he specialized in the high jump from 2008 and attended the Aspire Academy for Sports Excellence in Doha. He celebrated his first international successes in 2010. In that year he became indoor Asian champion in Tehran , junior world champion in Moncton and won the Asian Games in Guangzhou . He also took part in the World Indoor Championships in his hometown of Doha, where he could not qualify for the final. In addition, he won the gold medal at the Junior Asian Championships in Hanoi with a new national record of 2.31 m. In 2011 Barshim won the gold medal at the Asian Championships in Kobe and finished seventh at the World Championships in Daegu with 2.32 m. He then won the gold medal at the Pan-Arab Games in Doha. At the Olympic Games in London in 2012 he achieved his most important international success to date, where he secured the bronze medal together with Derek Drouin and Robert Grabarz, who were at the same height . Previously, he won the gold medal at the indoor championships in Hangzhou and finished ninth in the final at the indoor world championships in Istanbul .

Barshim in Moscow 2013

The following year he won the silver medal behind the Ukrainian Bohdan Bondarenko at the World Championships in Moscow and jumped 2.38 m. At the 2014 Indoor World Championships in Sopot , he won the first indoor World Championship title for his country by jumping 2.38 m in front of the same height favorite Iwan Uchow . Before that, he also won his third gold medal at the Asian Indoor Championships in Hangzhou . On June 14, 2014 Bohdan Bondarenko won the Diamond League meeting in New York with a height of 2.42 m. In the same competition, Mutaz Essa Barshim also reached the same height. Barshim increased this personal best on September 5, 2014 at the Diamond Leaugue final in Brussels by one centimeter. Barshim won with 2.43 m ahead of Bondarenko (2.40 m) and thus moved up to second place in the all-time world best list. In September he also successfully defended his title at the Asian Games in Incheon, South Korea .

In 2015 Barshim won only the bronze medal at the Asian Championships in Wuhan with 2.20 m and missed a medal in the final at the World Championships in Beijing with 2.33 m in fourth. In 2016 he won his fourth consecutive gold medal at the Indoor Championships in Doha and finished fourth at the Indoor World Championships in Portland . At the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro , Barshim won the silver medal behind Derek Drouin (2.38 m) with a height of 2.36 m . At the 2017 World Championships in London , he was the only athlete who jumped the 2.35 m height to win the gold medal. In 2017, he also remained unbeaten, had two 2.40 m jumps and was voted World Athlete of the Year .

In 2018 he took part in the Asian Indoor Championships in Tehran , where he won the gold medal with a new championship record and a world record for the year of 2.38 m. A month later he took part in the World Indoor Championships in Birmingham and had to admit defeat there with 2.33 m only to the Russian Danil Lyssenko , who crossed 2.36 m under the neutral flag . After a serious injury in Hungary in summer 2018, Barshim hardly competed in the following year. However, he was able to successfully defend his title from London at the home world championships in Doha with a jump height of 2.37 m in the final .

Personal best

• High jump: 2.43 m, September 5, 2014 in Brussels (Asian record)
  • High jump (hall): 2.41 m, February 18, 2015 in Athlone (Asian record)

Web links

Commons : Mutaz Essa Barshim  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• MUTAZ ESSA BARSHIM in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Mutaz Essa Barshim's website with autobiography , September 24, 2015
• Steve Landells: Personal bests - Mutaz Essa Barshim ( English ) IAAF. March 25, 2015. Accessed February 25, 2018.
• Steve Landells: My greatest challenge - Mutaz Essa Barshim ( English ) IAAF. June 26, 2017. Retrieved February 25, 2018.
• Jon Mulkeen: More pressure the better for Barshim ( English ) IAAF. August 22, 2017. Retrieved February 25, 2018.

Individual evidence

1. ^ A world record to top it off FAZ.net, March 9, 2014, accessed on March 10, 2014.
2. ^ High jumper Bondarenko and Barshim make history sportal.de, June 15, 2014.
3. ↑ Harting wins - Barshim scratches the long-term world record kicker.de, September 5, 2014.
4. ^ Phil Minshull: Barshim battles tiredness but still triumphs with Asian Games record in Inchon ( English ) IAAF. September 29, 2014. Retrieved February 25, 2018.
5. ↑ Nafissatou Thiam and Mutaz Essa Barshim are "World Athletes of the Year" 2017 Leichtathletik.de, November 25, 2017.
6. ↑ Bob Ramsak: Barshim tops 2.38m world lead at Asian Indoor Championships in Tehran ( English ) IAAF. February 1, 2018. Retrieved February 25, 2018.
7. ↑ High Jump Series Result | IAAF World Athletics Championships, DOHA 2019 | iaaf.org. Retrieved October 4, 2019 .