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Tokyo Olympics 2021: High jump athletes decide to share gold medal in remarkable show of sportsmanship
Sometimes, sportsmanship is bigger than winning, but, in the men's high jump final, two athletes made the remarkable decision to share gold. Here's how it happened.
In what is set to become one of the iconic moments of the Tokyo Games, Qatar’s Mutaz Barshim and Italy's Gianmarco Tamberi shared high jump gold in a remarkable show of sportsmanship.
Barshim and Tamberi each recorded a best clearance of 2.37 metres and, given the choice of a playoff or sharing the title, the two men hugged it out on the track.
Maksim Nedasekau of Belarus also cleared the same height to set a national record, but missed out on a share of the gold due to an earlier failure.
For Barshim, 30, it completes a full house of Olympic medals having taken bronze in London in 2012 and silver in Rio five years ago and adds to his world title in the event.
#OlympicGames High Jump Gold Medal being shared by friends who have supported each other throughout the journey, Mutaz Barshim and Gianmarco Tamberi, is simply amazing
— Steve E (@SteveEdwardsJA) August 1, 2021
What a beautiful ending for men high jump finals. A great sporting spirit #Olympics well done #ita & #qat
— 🇲🇾 Himura 🇲🇾Kenshin 🇲🇾 (@sarahsuhana) August 1, 2021
Those two guys who shared the high jump gold need a buddy travel show, going around the world and being kind and jumping over things
— Doug Mack (@douglasmack) August 1, 2021
Qatar’s Mutaz Barshim and Italy’s Gianmarco Tamberi. #Olympics #HighJump pic.twitter.com/kKNDz4upjc
— SirJohnCard (@SirJohnCard) August 1, 2021
He missed a large part of 2018 with a serious ankle injury, bouncing back to win world outdoor gold on home soil in 2019.
“This is a dream I don’t want to wake up from,” Barshim said.
“I have been through a lot. It’s been five years that I have been waiting, with injuries and a lot of setbacks.
“But we are here today sharing this moment and all the sacrifices.
“It’s really worth it now in this moment.”
Tamberi added Olympic gold to a world indoor and a European title, both in 2016, and celebrated exuberantly, despite the absence of spectators at this pandemic-affected Games.
The long-haired 29-year-old collapsed to the ground and rolled around in ecstasy.
He recovered his composure briefly before launching into more histrionics when his compatriot Lamont Marcell Jacobs stunned the sprinting world by winning the Olympic 100 metres title.
This had me in tears.
— Tancredi Palmeri (@tancredipalmeri) August 1, 2021
Not joking.
Right before doing last jump, and then after winning high jump, Gimbo Tamberi placed on track the plaster cast he saved since 2016 when he broke his leg 15 days before Rio2016.
Climbing. Falling. Rising back.
It’s Italy 2021 pic.twitter.com/yKsbp7deT1
His emotional celebrations were understandable given he had suffered a serious Achilles’ tendon injury weeks away from the 2016 Games which has seen him perform in a plaster cast.
“After my injuries I just wanted to come back, but now I have this gold, it’s incredible,” he said.
“I dreamed of this so many times.
“I was told in 2016, just before Rio, there was a risk I wouldn’t be able to compete any more.
"It’s been a long journey.”
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This was one of the biggest boilovers in Olympic history
Scott Gullan in Tokyo
This wasn't how the script was supposed to play out in the search for Usain Bolt's replacement.
For the first time since 2004 a name which isn't Bolt's sits on top of the world but not many would have predicted it would Italian Lamont Marcell Jacobs.
In one of the biggest boilovers in Olympic history, the 26-year-old former long jumper ran 9.80sec to defeat American Fred Kerley (9.84sec) with Canada's Andre de Grasse (9.89sec) relegated to bronze for the second time.
Jacobs wasn't in the conversation leading up to Tokyo about who would be the new sprint king to replace Bolt.
He didn't even make the final at the 2019 world championships and his only previous gold medal came at this year's European indoor championships over 60m.
In keeping with bizarre times there was all sorts of craziness around the men's 100m.
Great Britain's Zharnel Hughes created more drama by breaking and being disqualified from the final which interestingly had no Jamaicans in it.
There were two Americans – but not the favoured one – and runners from Nigeria, South Africa, Canada, Italy and China.
Double celebrations for Italy
If winning the 100m wasn't good enough, Italy have also grabbed gold in the high jump.
Gianmarco Tamberi was the joint winner of the high jump gold with Qatar's Mutaz Essa Barshim .
Italy wins the 100m final
In a huge boilover, Lamont Marcell Jacobs of Italy is the Olympic 100m champion. He's run 9.80.
US runner Fred Kerley picked up the silver with a run of 9.84. Andre de Grasse will get the bronze after running 9.89.
Sensational 100m final disqualification
Brit Zharnell Hughes has been disqualified for breaking
Starc out of men’s high jump after third miss
Brandon Starc has finished in fifth place in the men’s high jumper.
Starc had two jumps at 2.39 and missed them both. Starc cleared 2.35 – which is the highest ever by an Australian.
Brandon Starc has missed his first jumper at 2.39
Clay furious over false start debacle
Joe Barton
A furious Liz Clay has issued a warning to her Paris Games rivals after a frustrating night of false starts cost her a start in the women’s 100m hurdles final.
Clay ran a blistering personal best of 12.71 to finish third behind Jamaica’s Britany Anderson and American Kendra Harrison in her semi-final – but, agonisingly, finished 0.04s outside of the qualifying times to feature in the eight who will go for gold on Monday morning.
The semi-finals were hotly contested, with Puerto Rico’s Jasmine Camacho-Quinn’s shaving .06s off Australian Sally Pearson’s nine-year-old Olympic record.
But the 26-year-old Olympic debutant’s heat was plagued by three false starts – one caused by loud applause in reaction to the men’s high jump on the other side of the Olympic Stadium – and she said if not for them she would’ve taken even more time off her PB.
“I’m gutted. I would’ve been in that final if it wasn’t for those false starts,” Clay said.
“It was pretty frustrating to finally get going on the fourth one.
“I still think I held my own really well but I know I’m good enough to be in the final and a PB by .01 but it’s nothing compared to making that final so I’m pretty upset.”
Stingers reach quarter finals
Erin Smith in Tokyo
The Aussie Stingers have punched their ticket to the Olympic quarter finals in spectacular fashion.
With two wins from their three games Australia had already secured a spot ahead of their clash with South Africa tonight.
But the Aussie women proved they mean business in Tokyo, dominating the South African’s in all four quarters finishing ahead 14-1.
Australia will face Russia in the quarter final to be played from 2pm on Wednesday.
Starc clears 2.35
Brandon Starc has just cleared 2.35! He is right in the hunt here.
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