Gianmarco Tamberi, backstory on gold “for two” in Tokyo
Gianmarco Tamberi explains what è happened in Tokyo
Gianmarco Tamberi è boarded the train of memories and, speaking on the stage of the Sports Festival together with the athlete with whom he shared the Tokyo Olympic gold medal, è returned to the decision of both of them to stop the race when there were only two left to contend for the Olympic title.
"It è not just a matter of sharing a gold,” Tamberi said, è right to talk about what had happened before. In 2016 and 2018 he and I had very serious injuries, we were in the middle of our careers and it seemed like we had to end it thereì. When it was just the two of us, in Tokyo, contending for gold, we knew that neither of us deserved silver because of what had happened".
"I hope something like that doesn't happen again,‖ added the jumper from Marche, who in the next two years also took the European and World titles,‖ it was such a unique moment that to do it again would ruin even the past. At that moment it was right to do soì".
Tamberi, who has been with the Fiamme Oro sports group since 2021, è one of Italy's most successful athletics representatives: in addition to the Olympic gold in Tokyo 2020 (event held in 2021), the world gold won in Budapest in 2023 and the European gold won in Munich in 2022, he boasts a gold and a bronze at the World Indoor Championships (Portland 2016, Belgrade 2022), another European gold (Amsterdam 2016), a gold and a silver at the European Indoor Championships (Glasgow 2019, Torun 2021) and two golds at the European Games (individual and team in Chorzow 2023).
