{"id":11339,"date":"2025-05-08T10:01:03","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T10:01:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/?p=11339"},"modified":"2025-05-08T10:01:04","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T10:01:04","slug":"barshim-and-tamberi-reunited-in-silesia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/barshim-and-tamberi-reunited-in-silesia\/","title":{"rendered":"Barshim and Tamberi reunited in Silesia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>High jump legends Gianmarco Tamberi and Mutaz Essa Barshim will face each other once again at the Wanda Diamond League meeting in Silesia on August 16.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tamberi and Barshim made high jump history in 2021 when they decided to share the gold medal rather than competing in a jump-off at the Olympic Games in Tokyo. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That episode one of track and field&#8217;s great friendship-rivalries, one which has continued to develop on the Diamond League circuit ever since<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The two met at the Kamila Skolimowska Memorial in Silesia in 2023, with Barshim coming out on top thanks to a winning jump of 2.36m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tamberi won the following year, jumping 2.31m to claim a crucial victory on the road to his third Diamond League title. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The two join fellow superstars Grant Holloway, Mondo Duplantis and Jakob Ingebrigtsen in an increasingly star-studded line-up for this year&#8217;s meeting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Wanda Diamond League is the elite one-day meeting series in global athletics. 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