Gianmarco Tamberi, important success ahead of European Championships

Victory for Gimbo in Hungary

Putting behind him a fourth-place finish at the World Championships in Eugene and a stop, as unexpected as it was debilitating, caused by Covid, Gianmarco Tamberi returned to the track in Hungary and won the Istvan Gulai Memorial high jump competition.

The athlete from the Marche region won by reaching, without errors, the measure of 2 meters and 24 centimeters: the same measure for German Tobias Potye, who, however, achieved it on his second attempt. The two also battled to try to reach 2.27, without success. Rounding out the podium was Ukraine’s Andriy Protsenko (who in Eugene blew away Tamberi’s own bronze), who stopped at 2.18.

Tamberi, having made his success official, tried to raise the bar to 2.30, but failed to reach the measure. The signs ahead of the continental review are encouraging, however: Gimbo’s goal is to reach peak form in the very week of the European Championships, scheduled in Berlin Aug. 15-21.