The Olympic champion Gimbo Tamberi jumped 2.31 meters in the high jump competition at the 2022 Indoor World Championships in Belgrade, finishing with the same bronze medal with the New Zealander Hamish Kerr. Gold to South Korean Sanghyeok Woo with 2.34 and silver to Swiss Loïc Gasch always with 2.31. The blue of the Fiamme Oro sports group of the State Police decided to make his debut indoors on the occasion of the most important appointment, winning a beautiful medal. Tamberi made his debut in the high jump competition showing a flag of Ukraine drawn on his shoulder with two names written under it: Bondarenko and Protsenko, two Ukrainian high jumpers absent from the world championship due to the war in their country, unleashed by the Russian invasion .
Another world podium for Gianmarco Tamberi in the first race of the year, without having prepared the event in a specific way but only as a step towards the Eugene open air World Championships in July. The gold is from the Korean Sanghyeok Woo with 2.34, the silver goes to the Swiss Loic Gasch with 2.31, the blue is third with the same measure obtained on the second attempt but the additional error at 2 is decisive , 24. Also on this occasion, as in Tokyo, it is a shared medal for Tamberi, considering that New Zealander Hamish Kerr also wins bronze, in turn at 2.31 in the second round and with the same number of errors in the previous measures. For Gimbo it is the second world medal after the triumph six years ago in Portland, also indoors. Italy, which was gold last night with Marcell Jacobs in the 60 meters, had not won two medals in the same edition of the Indoor World Cup since Barcelona 1995.
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