Mutaz Essa Barshim

Medal record

Barshim at the 2011 Doha Diamond League meet
Men's athletics
Competitor for  Qatar
Military World Games
Gold 2011 Rio de Janeiro High jump
Asian Athletics Championships
Gold 2011 Kobe High jump
World Junior Championships
Gold 2010 Moncton High jump

Mutaz Essa Barshim (born 24 June 1991) is a Qatari track and field athlete who specialises in the high jump. He is the national record holder with a best mark of 2.35 metres. He was the Asian Indoor and World Junior champion in 2010. He won the high jump gold medals at the 2011 Asian Athletics Championships and 2011 Military World Games.

Trained at the ASPIRE Academy for Sports Excellence, Barshim enjoyed his first international successes in 2010. He set an indoor Qatari record in Gothenburg in early February with a jump of 2.25 m,[1] and then went on to take the gold medal at the 2010 Asian Indoor Athletics Championships, winning with a clearance of 2.20 m.[2] He was selected to represent Qatar at the 2010 IAAF World Indoor Championships in Doha and his performance of 2.23 m left him in fourteenth place in the qualifying round.[3] These feats made him the first graduate of the ASPIRE Academy to either compete at the world championship-level and hold the national record in an Olympic sport.[4]

Barshim won at the Arab Athletics Championship for Juniors in Cairo in May, clearing an outdoor best of 2.23 m, and then went on to secure the continental junior title at the 2010 Asian Junior Athletics Championships. His winning mark at the competition (2.31 m) was a national record and a world-leading mark for junior athletes[5] – it was also the best jump by a junior since Huang Haiqiang cleared 2.32 m in 2006.[6] He went on to win at the 2010 World Junior Championships in Athletics in Moncton, winning with a height of 2.30 m.[7]

He won gold in the Asian Athletics Championships in Kobe after clearing a height of 2.35 m, a new national and championship record.[8] He continued his good form and won a gold medal at the Military World Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil with a 2.28 m clearance.[9] He made his debut on the global senior stage at the 2011 World Championships in Athletics in Daegu and reached the final, missing a medal on count-back and ranking seventh overall. He became high champion at the Gulf Council Championships and the Arab Championships before capping off his year with yet another international gold medal at the 2011 Pan Arab Games held on home soil in Doha.[10]

Major competition record

Year Competition Venue Position Notes
2010 Asian Indoor Championships Tehran, Iran 1st 2.20 m
World Indoor Championships Doha, Qatar 14th (q) 2.23 m
Asian Junior Championships Hanoi, Vietnam 1st 2.31 m NR
World Junior Championships Moncton, Canada 1st 2.30 m
2011 Asian Athletics Championships Kobe, Japan 1st 2.35 m NR
World Championships Daegu, South Korea 7th 2.32 m
Pan Arab Games Doha, Qatar 1st 2.30 m

References

  1. ^ Mutaz Essa Barshim. Tilastopaja. Retrieved on 2010-07-05.
  2. ^ Krishnan, Ram. Murali (2010-02-26).Singh takes Shot Put gold for India – Asian Indoor champs day 2. IAAF. Retrieved on 2010-07-05.
  3. ^ 2010 IAAF World Indoor Championships – Men's High Jump. IAAF. Retrieved on 2010-07-05.
  4. ^ ASPIRE Proud Sponsor of the Toulon International Youth Football Festival. ASPIRE (2010-05-19). Retrieved on 2010-07-05.
  5. ^ Krishnan, Ram. Murali (2010-07-05). Barshim scales 2.31m in Hanoi – Asian junior championships. IAAF. Retrieved on 2010-07-05.
  6. ^ High Jump junior 2006. IAAF (2007-01-19). Retrieved on 2010-07-05.
  7. ^ Barshim takes High Jump gold to Qatar. IAAF (2010-07-24). Retrieved on 2010-07-25.
  8. ^ http://www.iaaf.org/news/newsid=60806.html
  9. ^ Kurdyumova, Yelena & Porada, Sergey (2011-07-24). Strong showing by Kenya at the World Military Games in Rio de Janeiro. IAAF. Retrieved on 2011-08-19.
  10. ^ Georgiotis, Vasileios (2011-12-21). Qatar’s young guns shine in Doha – Arab Games report. IAAF. Retrieved on 2011-12-21.

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