PUMA Signs Mutaz Essa Barshim, One of the Most Successful High Jumpers of All Time

Sports firm PUMA has signed Qatari athlete Mutaz Essa Barshim, one of the most profitable excessive jumpers of all time, who will put on the firm’s efficiency merchandise beginning at the Diamond League Meeting in Lausanne.

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Sports firm PUMA has signed Qatari athlete Mutaz Essa Barshim, one of the most profitable excessive jumpers of all time, who will put on the firm’s efficiency merchandise beginning at the Diamond League Meeting in Lausanne. (Photo: Business Wire)

With three World Championships and an Olympic Gold to his identify, Barshim has already gained every thing there may be to win in his sport. At the World Championships in Eugene this 12 months, he efficiently defended his title and confirmed he’s nonetheless on prime of his recreation.

“We are so happy to welcome Mutaz to our PUMA Family,” stated Pascal Rolling, Head of Sports Marketing. “He is an incredibly talented athlete, and his charm and sportsmanship has done much to promote athletics across the globe.”

Famously, Barshim and Italian PUMA athlete Gianmarco Tamberi determined to share the Gold at the Olympic Games in Tokyo after leaping the similar peak, creating memorable moments of equity and comradery.

Barshim’s private finest of 2.43 meters is the Asian Record and the second-highest bounce of all time. At PUMA, Barshim is a component of a gaggle of world-class athletes akin to 400m hurdles World Record Holder Karsten Warholm, pole vault World Record Holder Armand “Mondo” Duplantis and Jamaican sprinters Shericka Jackson and Elaine Thompson-Herah.

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PUMA

PUMA is one of the world’s main sports activities manufacturers, designing, growing, promoting and advertising and marketing footwear, attire and equipment. For greater than 70 years, PUMA has relentlessly pushed sport and tradition ahead by creating quick merchandise for the world’s quickest athletes. PUMA affords efficiency and sport-inspired way of life merchandise in classes akin to Football, Running and Training, Basketball, Golf, and Motorsports. It collaborates with famend designers and types to deliver sport influences into avenue tradition and trend. The PUMA Group owns the manufacturers PUMA, Cobra Golf and stichd. The firm distributes its merchandise in additional than 120 nations, employs about 16,000 individuals worldwide, and is headquartered in Herzogenaurach/Germany.

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