Barshim ends a season to remember
DOHA, August 29, 2017-Qatar's world champion high jumper Mutaz Barshim ended his season on a high, jumping 2.40m to win the annual Hochsprung-Eberstadt competition in Germany on Sunday.
About 2,000 spectators were treated to some high class action at the event exclusively for high jumpers, where for the first time in the history of the meeting, two jumpers cleared 2.38 metres.
Barshim, who won the World Championships title in London earlier in August and later went on to dominate the Diamond League events in Birmingham and Zurich, mastered 2.40m and even attempted 2.44m, missing the mark narrowly.
But his outstanding show fetched him a bonus 1,500 euros for equalling his best jump of the year.
“It was great today. It is the best meeting in the world here, the weather was very good, there was a really good atmosphere in the stadium. There were great and hard duels, that spurs me on," the Qatari champion said.
He added that pressure only motivates him to do better. “When I have pressure and a competitor with whom I have to fight, that I love, which carries me ever higher up. I wanted the arena record and also the world record I had in mind, but I was too excited and also somewhat tired by that whole trip this season. But, I am very satisfied with the result."
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