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Gianmarco Tamberi

Gianmarco Tamberi
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Personal information
Nickname(s) Gimbo
Nationality Italian
Born (1992-06-01) 1 June 1992 (age 24)
Civitanova Marche, Italy
Height 1.92 m (6 ft 3 12 in)
Weight 77 kg (170 lb)
Sport
Sport Athletics
Event(s) High jump
Club Bruni Vomano
G.S. Fiamme Gialle
Coached by Marco Tamberi
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s)
  • High jump: 2.39 m (2016)
  • High jump indoor: 2.38 m (2016)

Gianmarco Tamberi (born 1 June 1992) is an Italian high jumper.

Gianmarco Tamberi is coached by his father, Marco Tamberi, who held the indoor Italian record in 1983 with the measure of 2.28 m.

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 bar of 2.25 m.

During winter 2016, Tamberi won every contest he participated at. He won in Banska Bystrica with 2.35 m, a new Italian indoor record, equalled by Marco Fassinotti in the same event. He won in Trinec 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 Olympic games 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.


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