Gianmarco Tamberi Children: Does Gianmarco Tamberi Have Kids?

Gianmarco Tamberi was born on 1 June 1992 and is an Italian high jumper, current Olympic champion of the 2020 Summer Olympics, and World Indoor champion in 2016.

He won the 2021 Diamond League crown, becoming the first ever Italian to do so, and repeated this in 2022.

Gianmarco is coached by his father, Marco Tamberi, who held the indoor Italian record in 1983 with a height of 2.28 m.

In 2015, Tamberi broke the Italian high jump record twice—first with a jump of 2.34 m in Cologne, and second with a 2.37 m in Eberstadt, where he was second behind Derek Drouin. He later finished 8th at the 2015 World Championships in Beijing with a clearance of 2.25 m.

During the winter of 2016, Tamberi won every contest he participated in. He won in Banska Bystrica with 2.35 m, a new Italian indoor record, equaled by Marco Fassinotti in the same event.

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He won in Trinec after clearing 2.33 m. At the 2016 High Jump Moravia Tour, he recorded a jump of 2.38 m, enough to beat Chris Baker of Great Britain and Kyriakos Ioannou of Cyprus, which gave him the Italian indoor high jump record.

He won a gold medal at the World Indoor Championships in Portland in March 2016 with a jump of 2.36 m.

Tamberi was unable to compete at the 2016 Olympics due to an injury earlier in the season.

At major competitions, he is known for sporting a full beard during qualification and shaving half of it for the final.

On 1 August 2021, he along with Qatari athlete Mutaz Essa Barshim were declared tied winners of the men’s high jump at the 2020 Summer Olympics after a tie between both of them as they cleared 2.37m.

Both Tamberi and Barshim agreed to share the gold medal in a rare instance in Olympic history where the athletes of different nations agreed to share the same medal. Barshim in particular was quoted in his postmatch presentation asking, “Can we have two gold ?”