Qatari athlete Mutaz Essa Barshim signs with PUMA

PUMA has signed Qatari athlete Mutaz Essa Barshim, who wore the company’s performance sportswear products for the first time at the Diamond League event in Lausanne on Aug. 26.

Barshim is one of the most successful high jumpers in the world, having won three World Championships and an Olympic gold medal. His personal best of 2.43 meters set an Asian record and is the second-highest jump of all time.

“We are so happy to welcome Mutaz to our PUMA Family,” the company’s head of sports marketing, Pascal Rolling, said. “He is an incredibly talented athlete, and his charm and sportsmanship has done much to promote athletics across the globe.”

After successfully clearing the same height, Barshim and Italian athlete Gianmarco Tamberi famously decided to share gold at the Tokyo Olympics last year, in a move hailed by many as exemplifying the true nature of sportsmanship.

Barshim joins a group of world-class athletes sponsored by PUMA that includes 400-meter hurdles world record holder Karsten Warholm, pole vault world record holder Armand “Mondo” Duplantis, and Jamaican sprinters Shericka Jackson and Elaine Thompson-Herah.