Doha, July 19 (QNA) - Qatari champion Mutaz Barshim's winning the gold medal in the high jump competition at the World Athletics Championship, held in Eugene, USA, marked a new start in the career of the gold hunter, who became the best athlete in the history of the mother of all games since the first high jump competition was launched more than 80 years ago.
The 31 years old Barshim managed to win the world gold medal to become the first player in history to win the title three times in the competition as no high jumper has ever done it. The Qatari Champion won the title in three different versions London 2017, Doha 2019, Eugene USA 2022 to become a living legend in the history of athletics.
In addition to the colorful medals at the Olympic, world, continental and regional levels, and the Diamond League fixtures, Barshim achieved what no other athlete had ever achieved in the high jump competition.
The Qatari champion competed against himself in world championships and Olympics as he continued to break records and write a new chapter in the history of the high jump competitions. Barshim was regarded as one of the greatest high jumpers in history of athletics - alongside world record holder Javier Sotomayor - due to his performance development since playing in the youth and junior championships, then the adult championship in which he has participated since 2013.
Barshim scored the third World Athletics Championships gold medal after achieving the 2014 World Indoor Championship gold medal in Poland.

Talent
Barshim's association with numbers began in the year of 2010 - as this year witnessed the emergence of his talent - as he participated in the World Indoor Championships in Doha in which he came 8th in ranking with the height of 2.23 meters at the age of 18. Since then Barshim started his journey of success in local, continental, and world championships reaching the best jump in the history of the game during the last three decades at a height of 2.43. Barshim made this achievement in Belgium 2014 was considered as the best record in the history of the Diamond League fixtures and the closest to Cuban Javier Sotomayor, the record holder for the competition since 1993.
The figure 2.37 meter is the height that Mutaz Barshim kept winning the championships for gold medals, as with this record he won World Athletics Championship, London 2017, World Athletics Championship, Doha 2019 and with the same figure he achieved the gold medal in this year's World Athletics Championship, held in Eugene, USA. Barshim has a series of successes that began in 2010, when he won the 2010 World Junior Championships in Athletics in Canada gold medal (2.31 m), the same figure he won the 2010 Asian Junior Athletics Championships gold medal.
Barshim holds the record of 2014 Asian Indoor Athletics Championships high jump competitions, which he set in the Chinese city of Hangzhou, in addition to being the best Asian indoors record.

Barshim's achievements at the level of sport events in (the Olympics, the World Military Games and the Asian Games) are full of gold medals and recording various numbers. In 2014, Barshim made the best high jump in the history of the Asian Games in South Korea as well as the 2011 World Military Games in Brazil with the record of 2.31 meter.

Record
The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAFF) ranked the Qatari champion as the greatest in the history of the mother of all games since the launch of the first high jump competition more than 80 years ago as he is the only athlete to compete against himself in the high jump competitions and has become an idol for future generations of high jump enthusiasts. Barshim, who has been trained according to a scientific and technical program tailored at Aspire Academy, achieved the best record in the history of the Diamond League fixtures, Belgium when he was close to breaking the world high jump record when he made a 2.43 meter jump just 2 centimeters from the world record of 2.45 meters.
Barshim ignited the enthusiasm of athletics fans in the world with his huge jumps and his advanced level according to the classification of the Technical Committee of the IAFF in field games, where the Qatari champion follows the badminton technique known to technical officials in athletics in jumping competitions.
Barshim is a model of a champion with strong will and patience. He suffered a tendon injury in the year 2017 at the Hungary international meeting while trying to break the record at the time, and it almost cost him his sporting future, but he continued to work, recovered and returned with persistence and defiance to win gold in the World Athletics Championships in Doha.
Despite his beginning as a runner in the Qatari club Al Rayyan, Barshim responded to the advice of the age group coach at the time in the club to join high jump competitions instead of running.
Barshim's achievements are inspired by the great support and unlimited sponsorship of the officials in the State of Qatar, the Qatar Olympic Committee, and the Athletics Federation.
Commenting of Barshim's latest achievement, HE President of Qatar Olympic Committee (QOC) Sheikh Joaan bin Hamad Al-Thani praised the Qatari champion achievement after he won the high jump competitions gold medal in the 18th World Athletics Championships held in Eugene, USA. (QNA)