Triple world champion Mutaz Essa Barshim, who famously shared his 2020 Tokyo Olympics gold medal with Italian Gianmarco Tamberi, will lead Qatar’s challenge at the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest, Hungary.
He will be joined by two team-mates — 400M hurdler Bassem Hemeida and discus thrower Moaaz Mohamed — for the August 19 to 27 competition at the newly-built National Athletics Centre.
قائمة بعثة #الأدعم المشاركة في بطولة العالم لألعاب القوى - بودابست 2023
— Qatar Athletics Fed (@qatarathletics) August 8, 2023
برعاية مجموعة شاطيء البحر و PUMA
Qatar’s team joining the World Athletics Championships in Budapest 2023, proudly sponsored by the Seashore Group and PUMA pic.twitter.com/SJ3yiHni1Z
Mutaz, who won an unprecedented three World Championship titles in back-to-back fashion — at 2017 London, 2019 Doha and 2022 Eugene — will once again be a frontrunner in his event.
The 32-year-old started his season well, jumping an impressive 2.36M at the Silesia Kamila Skolimowska Memorial Diamond League meet in Chorzow, Poland, last month.
Marvellous Mutaz!@mutazbarshim clears 2.36m to set a new meeting record and claim his first #DiamondLeague win of the season.#SilesiaDL
— Wanda Diamond League (@Diamond_League) July 16, 2023
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He followed it up with a 2.33M second-place finish at the London Diamond League and is currently in good form.
Barshim, as always, will have one eye on the world record of 2.45M, set by Cuban Javier Sotomayor in 1993. He came close to breaking it in 2014 in Brussels, but injured himself while attempting a 2.46M clearance.
Meanwhile, Hemeida will try to leave his mark on the world stage in the absence of compatriot and 400M hurdles specialist Abderrahman Samba, who has been out for long with an injury.
Hemeida recently ran his personal best time of 48.64sec to win gold at the Asian Athletics Championships in Supachalasai National Stadium, Bangkok, Thailand. It is the 30th best performance in the world this year.
Moaaz Mohamed, a former U-20 World and Asian champion, has a personal best throw of 62.48M.
شركة @PUMA الراعي الرسمي لاتحاد ألعاب القوى في جميع البطولات حتى 2026 ..وبداية من بطولة العالم لألعاب القوى ببودابست خلال الفترة من 19-27 أغسطس 2023
— Qatar Athletics Fed (@qatarathletics) August 8, 2023
PUMA will be the official sponsor for Qatar athletics federation for all championships through 2026, marking its… pic.twitter.com/h84tWxb6hf
The Qatar contingent, sponsored by Seashore Group and PUMA, will be led by Qatar Athletics Federation President Mohamed Issa Al Fadala, Secretary General Issa Abdullah Al Harami, Talal Mansour, Khalifa Abdul Malik and Khaled Al Marri.
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