Gianmarco Tamberi won a Diamond
League event Sunday after his return from the Paris Olympics
where his hopes of retaining his Tokyo high-jump title were
dashed by kidney-stone induced vomiting and coughing blood that
saw him on a hospital drip just hours before the final in the
French capital.
Marche-born 'Gimbo', 32, won the Polish leg of the Diamond
League at the 'Silesia Kamila Skolimowska Memorial'.
The Italian, back from his unfortunate Olympic parenthesis, was
looking for a little redemption and found it, winning the high
jump ahead of Ukrainian Doroshchuk: his 2.31 at the second
attempt was decisive, while the other Italian Stefano Sottile
stopped at the 2.26 attempt for a seventh place finish, better
than Paris gold medallist Hamish Kerr of New Zealand , who was
resoundingly already eliminated.
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