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After finishing 4th in the World Championships, Gianmarco Tamberi will compete at the Gyulai Istv\u00e1n Memorial, where he will be looking for his first success in his fourth race in Sz\u00e9kesfeh\u00e9rv\u00e1r.<\/strong><\/p>\n Not only athletics fans, but sports enthusiasts in general already know by heart the story of how the men’s high jump Olympic title was decided last year. In the finals, Gianmarco Tamberi and Mutaz Essa Barshim both reached the height of 2.39 metres with flawless performances, a height that neither of them was able to surpass. Everyone knew that a “split jump” should decide the fate of the gold medal.<\/p>\n Just before the two jumpers started to prepare for it, Barshim had asked the judge jokingly if there could be two gold medals. The surprising answer was YES! As soon as the two good friends found out that they could share the Olympic title, Tamberi jumped into Barshim’s arms and a huge celebration started. At the award ceremony, they hung the shiniest medal on each other’s necks at the top of the podium.<\/p>\n The moment Tamberi jumped into the arms of his friend and training partner summarised the lovability that defines the Italian world star. After his dramatic ankle injury in 2016, it’s a miracle that he has been able to reach the top five years later. An injury can be dramatic in many ways, for him, in addition to the ‘failure’ of a body part that is crucial for jumpers, it found him in the best form of his life just days before the Rio Olympics.<\/p>\n Earlier, in 2016, he broke the Italian indoor record with 2.38 metres in the Czech Republic, then won the World Indoor Championships in Portland, before going on to have another great outdoor season, with huge successes on his way to the Olympic Games, such as winning gold at the European Championships and improving the national outdoor record to 2.39 metres.<\/p>\n But Tamberi did not give up! After a huge fight, he recovered and returned to the top. In 2017, he made his debut at the Gyulai Memorial and made his debut in Sz\u00e9kesfeh\u00e9rv\u00e1r with a 3rd place. A year later, he finished 7th here with 2.26 metres. Although he did not win either of these two events, he was already a fan favourite because he made a show of every jump that very few athletes can do.<\/p>\n In 2019, he was back over 2.30 metres again in a major world competition, in Glasgow he found his way back to winning with a jump of 2.32 metres at the European Indoor Championships. At these events, he usually has a full face of beard in the qualification round and then only half of his face in the final. Hence the nickname “halfshave”, which is also the username of his Instagram profile with nearly 600,000 followers.<\/p>\n Not long before his victory at the Tokyo Olympics, Tamberi was in Sz\u00e9kesfeh\u00e9rv\u00e1r for the third time, where he finished 4th with 2.30 metres. <\/p>\n\n