Gianmarco Tamberi

Gianmarco Tamberi (Italian pronunciation: [dʒamˈmarko tamˈbɛːri]; born 1 June 1992) is an Italian high jumper, Olympic champion (2020), European outdoor champion (2024) and World outdoor champion (2023).^[3][4]

Gianmarco Tamberi

Tamberi in 2024
Personal information
National team	Italy: 19 caps (2012–)
Born	(1992-06-01) 1 June 1992 (age 33) Civitanova Marche, Italy
Height	1.91 m (6 ft 3 in)[1]
Weight	76 kg (168 lb)[1]
Sport
Sport	Athletics
Event	High 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	Marco Tamberi (2011–2022) Giulio Ciotti (2022–)
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 ranking	1 (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 3 0 0 European Indoor Championships 1 1 0 Total 7 1 1 Olympic Games 2020 Tokyo High jump World Championships 2023 Budapest High jump World Indoor Championships 2016 Portland High jump 2022 Belgrade High jump Diamond League 2021 High jump 2022 High jump 2024 High jump European Championships 2016 Amsterdam High jump 2022 Munich High jump 2024 Rome High jump European Indoor Championships 2019 Glasgow High jump 2021 Toruń High jump European Games 2023 Kraków-Małopolska High jump European Junior Championships 2011 Tallinn High jump

He won the 2021 Diamond League crown, becoming the first ever Italian to do so,^[5] and repeated this in 2022^[6] and 2024.^[7]

Career

Tamberi with Gold medal shared at the 2020 Summer Olympics

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 Banská 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][10]

On 1 August 2021, he and Qatari athlete Mutaz Essa Barshim were declared tied winners of the men's high jump at the 2020 Summer Olympics after both had cleared 2.37m.^[11] Tamberi and Barshim shared the gold medal in a rare instance in Olympic history of athletes of different nations agreeing to share the same medal.^[12][13] After the failed jumps Barshim asked the referee "Can we have two golds?" and when hearing the answer was yes, embraced Tamberi saying "History, my friend".^[14][15]

At the 2022 NBA Celebrity All-Star Game, Tamberi appeared on Dominique Wilkins's team, and made a putback dunk.^[16] He was the first high jump champion to appear in the Celebrity Game.^[17]

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 metre height.^[4]

On 13 June 2024, Tamberi and Olympic fencer Arianna Errigo received the tricolor flag from the president of Italy, Sergio Mattarella, for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.^[18] He received media attention after accidentally losing his wedding ring in the River Seine during the opening ceremony of the 2024 games.^[19]

Statistics

National records

• High jump outdoor: 2.39 ( Monaco, 15 July 2016) – Current holder.^[20]
• High jump indoor: 2.38 ( Hustopeče, 13 February 2016) – Current holder

Progression

Best outdoor World ranking of Tamberi was 2nd in 2016, but he was indoor World leader in 2016 and 2021.^[21]

  Personal Best

Outdoor

Year (age)	Performance	Venue	Date	World Ranking
2024 (32)	2.37 m	Rome	11 June	1st[note 1]
2023 (31)	2.36 m	Budapest	22 August	2nd
2022 (30)	2.34 m	Zürich	7 September	3th
2021 (29)	2.37 m	Tokyo	1 August	1st
2020 (28)	2.30 m	Ancona	28 June	3rd
2019 (27)	2.28 m	Rome	2 October	23rd
2018 (26)	2.33 m	Eberstadt	26 August	8th
2017 (25)	2.29 m	London	18 August	29th
2016 (24)	2.39 m	Monaco	15 July	2nd
2015 (23)	2.37 m	Eberstadt	2 August	3rd
2014 (22)	2.29 m	Ancona	27 August	21st
2013 (21)	2,25 m	Milan	28 July	52nd
2012 (20)	2.31 m	Bressanone	8 July	12th
2011 (19)	2.25 m	Tallinn	23 July	55th
2010 (18)	2.14 m	Florence	6 June	–
2009 (17)	2.07 m	Bressanone	9 July	–

Indoor

Year (age)	Performance	Venue	Date	World Ranking
2021 (29)	2.35 m	Ancona	21 February	1st
2020 (28)	2.31 m	Siena	29 February	6th
2019 (27)	2.32 m	Ancona	15 February	2nd
2018 (26)	2.25 m	Hustopeče	27 January	35th
2017 (25)	he did not play the indoor season
2016 (24)	2.38 m	Hustopeče	13 February	1st
2015 (23)	2.28 m	Prague	7 March	23rd
2013 (22)	2.30 m	Banská Bystrica	6 February	11th
2012 (20)	2.20 m	Banská Bystrica	8 February	100th
		Ancona	8 January
2011 (19)	2.21 m	Ancona	13 February	70th
2010 (18)	2.10 m	Ancona	6 February

Achievements

Year	Competition	Venue	Position	Event	Measure	Notes
2010	World Junior Championships	Moncton	21st (q)	High jump	2.10 m
2011	European Junior Championships	Tallinn	3rd	High jump	2.25 m	PB =
2012	European Championships	Helsinki	5th	High jump	2.24 m	[note 2]
	Olympic Games	London	21st (q)	High jump	2.21 m
2013	European Indoor Championships	Gothenburg	5th	High jump	2.29 m
	European U23 Championships	Tampere	13th (q)	High jump	2.17 m
2014	European Championships	Zürich	7th	High jump	2.26 m	SB
2015	European Indoor Championships	Prague	7th	High jump	2.24 m
	World Championships	Beijing	8th	High jump	2.25 m
2016	World Indoor Championships	Portland	1st	High jump	2.36 m
	European Championships	Amsterdam	1st	High jump	2.32 m
2017	World Championships	London	13th (q)	High jump	2.29 m	SB
2019	European Indoor Championships	Glasgow	1st	High jump	2.32 m	SB =
2021	European Indoor Championships	Toruń	2nd	High jump	2.35 m
	Olympic Games	Tokyo	1st	High jump	2.37 m	SB
2022	World Indoor Championships	Belgrade	3rd	High jump	2.31 m
	European Championships	Munich	1st	High jump	2.30 m
2023	European Team Championships	Chorzów	1st	High jump	2.29 m
	World Championships	Budapest	1st	High jump	2.36 m	SB
2024	European Championships	Rome	1st	High jump	2.37 m	CR
	Olympic Games	Paris	11th	High jump	2.22 m

Circuit wins and titles

• Diamond League champion: 2021,2022 and 2024.^[22]

The winning jump of Tamberi at 2.36 m at Portland 2016.

Tamberi with his bronze medal at Belgrade 2022.

Meetings

• 2015
  • London Grand Prix (Diamond League) – London, 2.28 m
  • Meeting Eberstadt – Eberstadt, 2.37 m NR
  • Weltklasse (Diamond League) – Zürich, 2.23 m (5th)
• 2016
  • High Jump Moravia Tour – Hustopeče, 2.38 m NR
  • Meeting International Mohammed VI (Diamond League) – Rabat, 2.25 m (6th)
  • Golden Gala (Diamond League) – Rome, 2.30 m
  • Müller Grand Prix (Diamond League) – Birmingham, 2.20 m (8th)
  • Herculis (Diamond League) – Monte Carlo, 2.39 m NR
• 2017
  • Meeting de Paris (Diamond League) – Paris, NM
  • Meeting International Mohammed VI (Diamond League) – Rabat, 2.27 m
  • Müller Grand Prix (Diamond League) – Birmingham, 2.20 m (7th)
  • Weltklasse (Diamond League) – Zürich, 2.16 m (12th)
• 2018
  • Athletissima (Diamond League) – Lausanne, 2.25 m (9th)
  • Herculis (Diamond League) – Monte Carlo, 2.27 m (5th) SB
  • Eberstadt Internationales Hochsprung-Meeting – Eberstadt, 2.33 m (2nd) SB
  • Memorial van Damme (Diamond League) – Brussels, 2.31 m (3rd)

National titles

Tamberi won the national championships 9 times.^[23][24]

• Italian Athletics Championships
  • High jump: 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018, 2020, 2022 (6)
• Italian Indoor Athletics Championships
  • High jump: 2016, 2019, 2021 (3)

See also

• Athletes with most medals in high jump history
• List of Italian records in athletics
• Italian all-time top lists – High jump
• Men's high jump Italian record progression

Notes

1. Update to 11 June 2024
2. He jumped 2.26 m in qualification.