Gianmarco Tamberi
Tamberi in 2022
Personal information
National teamItaly: 19 caps (2012–)
Born (1992-06-01) 1 June 1992 (age 31)
Civitanova Marche, Italy
Height1.91 m (6 ft 3 in)[1]
Weight76 kg (168 lb)[1]
Sport
SportAthletics
EventHigh jump
Club
  • Atletica Osimo (2002–2009)
  • Atletica Vomano [it] (2010–2011)
  • Fiamme Gialle (2012–2020)
  • Atletica Vomano (2020)
  • ATL-Etica (2021–)[2]
  • Fiamme Oro (2021–)[2]
Coached by
Achievements and titles
Olympic finals
  • 2012 London
  • High jump - 21st (q)
  • 2020 Tokyo
  • High jump -  Gold
World finals
  • 2015 Beijing
  • High jump - 8th
  • 2017 London
  • High jump - 14th (q)
  • 2019 Doha
  • High jump - 8th
  • 2022 Eugene
  • High jump - 4th
  • 2023 Budapest
  • High jump -  Gold
Highest world ranking1 (weeks 46)
Personal bests
  • High jump: 2.39 m NR
  • High jump indoor: 2.38 m NR
Medal record
Men's athletics
Representing  Italy
Top 5 events medals
Event 1st 2nd 3rd
Olympic Games 1 0 0
World Championships 1 0 0
World Indoor Championships 1 0 1
European Championships 2 0 0
European Indoor Championships 1 1 0
Total 6 1 1
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 2020 Tokyo High jump
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2023 Budapest High jump
World Indoor Championships
Gold medal – first place 2016 Portland High jump
Bronze medal – third place 2022 Belgrade High jump
Diamond League
Gold medal – first place 2022 High jump
European Championships
Gold medal – first place 2016 Amsterdam High jump
Gold medal – first place 2022 Munich High jump
European Indoor Championships
Gold medal – first place 2019 Glasgow High jump
Silver medal – second place 2021 Toruń High jump
European Games
Gold medal – first place 2023 Kraków-Małopolska High jump
European Junior Championships
Bronze medal – third place 2011 Tallinn High jump

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

Gold medal shared at Tokyo 2020

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

Progression

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

  Personal Best
Outdoor
Year (age) Performance Venue Date World Ranking
2023 (31) 2.36 m Hungary Budapest 22 August 1st[note 1]
2022 (30) 2.34 m Switzerland Zürich 7 September 3th
2021 (29) 2.37 m Japan Tokyo 1 August 1st
2020 (28) 2.30 m Italy Ancona 28 June 3rd
2019 (27) 2.28 m Italy Rome 2 October 23rd
2018 (26) 2.33 m Germany Eberstadt 26 August 8th
2017 (25) 2.29 m United Kingdom London 18 August 29th
2016 (24) 2.39 m Monaco Monaco 15 July 2nd
2015 (23) 2.37 m Germany Eberstadt 2 August 3rd
2014 (22) 2.29 m Italy Ancona 27 August 21st
2013 (21) 2,25 m Italy Milan 28 July 52nd
2012 (20) 2.31 m Italy Bressanone 8 July 12th
2011 (19) 2.25 m Estonia Tallinn 23 July 55th
2010 (18) 2.14 m Italy Florence 6 June -
2009 (17) 2.07 m Italy Bressanone 9 July -
Indoor
Year (age) Performance Venue Date World Ranking
2021 (29) 2.35 m Italy Ancona 21 February 1st
2020 (28) 2.31 m Italy Siena 29 February 6th
2019 (27) 2.32 m Italy Ancona 15 February 2nd
2018 (26) 2.25 m Czech Republic Hustopeče 27 January 35th
2017 (25) he did not play the indoor season
2016 (24) 2.38 m Czech Republic Hustopeče 13 February 1st
2015 (23) 2.28 m Czech Republic Prague 7 March 23rd
2013 (22) 2.30 m Slovakia Banská Bystrica 6 February 11th
2012 (20) 2.20 m Slovakia Banská Bystrica 8 February 100th
Italy Ancona 8 January
2011 (19) 2.21 m Italy Ancona 13 February 70th
2010 (18) 2.10 m Italy Ancona 6 February

Achievements

The winning jump of Tamberi at 2.36 m at Portland 2016.
Tamberi with his bronze medal at Belgrade 2022.
Year Competition Venue Position Event Measure Notes
2010 World Junior Championships Canada Moncton 21st (q) High jump 2.10 m
2011 European Junior Championships Estonia Tallinn 3rd High jump 2.25 m PB =
2012 European Championships Finland Helsinki 5th High jump 2.24 m [note 2]
Olympic Games United Kingdom London 21st (q) High jump 2.21 m
2013 European Indoor Championships Sweden Göteborg 5th High jump 2.29 m
European U23 Championships Finland Tampere 13th (q) High jump 2.17 m
2014 European Championships Switzerland Zürich 7th High jump 2.26 m SB
2015 European Indoor Championships Czech Republic Prague 7th High jump 2.24 m
World Championships China Beijing 8th High jump 2.25 m
2016 World Indoor Championships United States Portland 1st High jump 2.36 m
European Championships Netherlands Amsterdam 1st High jump 2.32 m
2017 World Championships United Kingdom London 13th (q) High jump 2.29 m SB
2019 European Indoor Championships United Kingdom Glasgow 1st High jump 2.32 m SB =
2021 European Indoor Championships Poland Toruń 2nd High jump 2.35 m
Olympic Games Japan Tokyo 1st High jump 2.37 m SB
2022 World Indoor Championships Serbia Belgrade 3rd High jump 2.31 m
European Championships Germany Munich 1st High jump 2.30 m
2023 European Team Championships Poland Chorzów 1st High jump 2.29 m
World Championships Hungary Budapest 1st High jump 2.36 m SB

Circuit wins and titles

Meetings

National titles

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

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Update to 22 August 2023
  2. ^ He jumped 2.26 m in qualification.

References

  1. ^ a b "GIANMARCO TAMBERI". coni.it. CONI. Retrieved 1 August 2021.
  2. ^ a b "Tamberi e Zanon, ingresso in Fiamme Oro" (in Italian). fidal.it. 15 July 2021. Retrieved 18 July 2021.
  3. ^ "Athletics: Tamberi wins Euro high jump gold". ansa.it. 19 August 2022. Retrieved 19 August 2022.
  4. ^ "REPORT: MEN'S HIGH JUMP – IAAF WORLD INDOOR CHAMPIONSHIPS PORTLAND 2016". iaafg.org. Retrieved 21 July 2018.
  5. ^ a b McAlister, Sean (22 August 2023). "World Athletics Championships 2023: Italy's Gianmarco Tamberi wins high jump gold". Olympics.com. International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 22 August 2023.
  6. ^ "Athletics: it is the year of Tamberi, he triumphs in Zurich jumping 2.34. First Italian to win the Diamond League". breakinglatest.news. 9 September 2021. Retrieved 10 September 2021.
  7. ^ "Jumps success for Tamberi and Kennedy". worldathletics.org. 7 September 2022. Retrieved 8 September 2022.
  8. ^ "Tensioni, insulti, risultati deludenti: Perché Tamberi ha licenziato il papà-allenatore". 7 April 2022.
  9. ^ "Le sette curiosità che non sapete su Tamberi, l'ultima speranza azzurra" (in Italian). eurosport.com. Retrieved 29 August 2015.
  10. ^ "'Can we have 2?' Barshim, Tamberi share HJ gold". ESPN.com. 1 August 2021. Retrieved 1 August 2021.
  11. ^ "WATCH : "Can we have two golds" Two players share Gold after tie in Olympics". NewsWire. 1 August 2021. Retrieved 1 August 2021.
  12. ^ "Tokyo 2020 news - Mutaz Barshim and Gianmarco Tamberi make shock decision to share high jump gold". Eurosport. 1 August 2021. Retrieved 1 August 2021.
  13. ^ "High jumpers agree to share Olympic gold". BBC Sport. Retrieved 1 August 2021.
  14. ^ "This is true sportsmanship". YouTube.
  15. ^ Helin, Kurt (18 February 2022). "Watch Gianmarco Tamberi with impressive put-back dunk in NBA All-Star Celebrity Game". NBC Sports. Retrieved 4 September 2023.
  16. ^ Baer, Jack (19 February 2022). "Hear us out: Every NBA All-Star Celebrity Game should have a champion high-jumper". Yahoo Sports. Retrieved 4 September 2023.
  17. ^ "This Italian High Jumper's Half-Beard Will Fill You With Anxiety". GQ. 27 July 2015. Retrieved 23 August 2023.
  18. ^ "TAMBERI FOLLOWS RECORD HIGH WITH HEART-BREAKING LOW IN MONACO". IAAF. 15 July 2016. Retrieved 16 July 2016.
  19. ^ "Season Top Lists - Senior Outdoor High Jump Men". worldathletics.org. Retrieved 18 July 2021.
  20. ^ "Wanda Diamond League Final | Zürich (SUI) | 8th-9th Sept 2021" (PDF). Diamond League. 9 September 2021. p. 5. Retrieved 9 September 2021.
  21. ^ "TUTTI I CAMPIONI ITALIANI 1906-2021" (PDF). sportolimpico.it. 1 January 2021. Retrieved 18 July 2021.
  22. ^ "Gianmarco Tamberi - Profile". worldathletics.org. Retrieved 18 July 2021.

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