Princess Charlene
of Monaco Foundation

From the moment Barshim’s coach, Stanley Szczyrba, took him under his wing in September 2009 to guide him into the league of world champions, he has devoted his heart, mind, and body to the world of sport. Barshim immediately hit the ground running with an early breakout into international stardom at the young age of 19. He set Qatari records in Gothenburg, Sweden with a 2.25 m. jump in February 2010. Mutaz Essa Barshim born in 1991 is a Qatari track and field athlete who competes in the high jump and is the current Olympic Champion (2020). He is also the current World Champion and second best jumper of all-time with a personal best of 2.43. He won gold at the 2017 World Championships in London and at the 2019 World Championships in Doha. At the Olympics, Barshim won bronze at the London 2012 Summer Olympics, and silver at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio. He was the Asian Indoor and World Junior champion in 2010, and won the high jump gold medals at the 2011 Asian Athletics Championships and 2011 Military World Games. He holds the Asian record in high jump. In 2021, his bronze in the 2012 Summer Olympics was promoted to silver due to the disqualification of the original gold medalist. Barshim won the Olympic gold medal at the 2020 Summer Olympics in the high jump event, the first gold medal for Qatar in athletics.He is a joint gold medal winner, as he and Italian Gianmarco Tamberi cleared a height of 2.37 m in their first attempt and subsequently failed to clear 2.39 m. Both Tamberi and Barshim agreed to share the gold medal in a rare instance in Olympic history where the athletes of different nations had agreed to share the same medal.