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Mutaz Essa Barshim ((アラビア語:معتز عيسى برشم); born 24 June 1991) is a Qatari track and field athlete who specialises in the high jump. He is the national record and Asian record holder with a best mark of . He was the Asian Indoor and World Junior champion in 2010. He won the high jump gold medals at the 2011 Asian Athletics Championships and 2011 Military World Games, and he won the bronze medal at the 2012 Olympic Games held in London, with a height of 2.29 m (7' 6"). He jumps off his left foot, using the Fosbury Flop technique, with a pronounced backwards arch over the bar. One of his brothers, Muamer, is also a high jumper. ==Early life== Barshim gave a "Feature" interview to the IAAF's on-line news publication in April 2013 and explained how he started in the sport. Mutaz was born in Doha into an Afro-Arab family of 5 boys and 1 girl, where his father was a Qatari athletics competitor in middle- and long-distance races. All of the Barshim children became active in the sport of athletics (track & field) because of their father, who, after retiring from competition, became the coach of a local club. Barshim tried both running and long jumping as a youth. He told the IAAF interviewer, “I grew up, nothing special, like any kid in Qatar. I joined a club because my father was going to the club training so sometimes he used to take me there with him. I knew athletics because of my father." He attended an Arabic school in Doha, where he learned to speak English. At age 15 he switched to the high jump and quickly excelled. Soon, he was training in Doha at the ASPIRE Academy for Sports Excellence. He finished to train in ASPIRE in 2009, when his personal best was 2.14 m. It was from then, September 2009, when his new (and current) coach from Poland/Sweden Stanisław "Stanley" Szczyrba arrived to Doha. He has been his coach since then, and Barshim said, "''He is more than a coach, we are like father and son''." During summer season in Europe, they spend time at Szczyrba's home in Warsaw, Poland, and they also train in Sweden so that Barshim does not have to waste time flying to and from Qatar between competitions.〔( Qatari Hero: Mutaz Essa Barshim - IAAF Diamond League, One Month to Go ); 12 April 2013 feature interview conducted by Paul Gains for the IAAF; accessed 13 April 2013.〕 Barshim enjoyed his first international successes in 2010, at the age of 19. He set an indoor Qatari record in Gothenburg in early February with a jump of 2.25 m, and then went on to take the gold medal at the 2010 Asian Indoor Athletics Championships, winning with a clearance of 2.20 m.〔Krishnan, Ram. Murali (2010-02-26).(Singh takes Shot Put gold for India – Asian Indoor champs day 2 ). IAAF. Retrieved on 2010-07-05.〕 He was selected to represent Qatar at the 2010 IAAF World Indoor Championships in Doha and his performance of 2.23 m left him in fourteenth place in the qualifying round.〔(2010 IAAF World Indoor Championships – Men's High Jump ). IAAF. Retrieved on 2010-07-05.〕 These feats made him the first graduate of the ASPIRE Academy to either compete at the world championship-level and hold the national record in an Olympic sport.〔(ASPIRE Proud Sponsor of the Toulon International Youth Football Festival ). ASPIRE (2010-05-19). Retrieved on 2010-07-05.〕 Barshim won at the Arab Athletics Championship for Juniors in Cairo in May 2010, clearing an outdoor best of 2.23 m, and then went on to secure the continental junior title at the 2010 Asian Junior Athletics Championships. His winning mark at the competition (2.31 m) was a national record and a world-leading mark for junior athletes〔Krishnan, Ram. Murali (2010-07-05). (Barshim scales 2.31m in Hanoi – Asian junior championships ). IAAF. Retrieved on 2010-07-05.〕 – it was also the best jump by a junior since Huang Haiqiang cleared 2.32 m in 2006.〔(High Jump junior 2006 ). IAAF (2007-01-19). Retrieved on 2010-07-05.〕 He went on to win at the 2010 World Junior Championships in Athletics in Moncton, winning with a height of 2.30 m.〔(Barshim takes High Jump gold to Qatar ). IAAF (2010-07-24). Retrieved on 2010-07-25.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mutaz Essa Barshim」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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