Elite High Rumpers takes a central stage of Doha’s “What Grandpower Challenge”

Elite High Rumpers takes a central stage of Doha’s “What Grandpower Challenge”

The second edition of the “What Gravity Challenge” takes place in an open-air Amphitheater, where some of the best high flights in the world will rise and rise again.

The man behind them is Mutaz Barsim, who is a national hero and a three-month world champion and the Olympic gold medalist. The 32-year-old children have seen everything at the biggest stages, but at home, he builds something personal. Something that extends. “This event began to honor and strengthen the athletes,” Barsim said on the eve of the event. “It’s a movement, it creates difficult borders, celebrating talents and doing it outside Qatar and its borders.”

What started in 2023 at a high jump showcase quickly turned into a bold experience on how to present the sport. The qualification stages, long breaks and half empty stadiums. This is one-way, one session event under lights, music, production and audience that comes to see the athletes’ fly.

This year, Barshim once again starts the start list, but she is not alone. The men’s field includes an Olympic silver medalist in the US and New Zealand Hamish Kerry, who announced a bronze at the Tokyo Olympics. However, all eyes can move to women’s new and very welcome supplement.

For the first time, what kind of gravity will women compete, and the organizers do not stop. Ukraine Yaroslava Mahukik, recently warned Olympic champion in Paris and women’s world record holds field. Australian Eleanor Patterson and Germany Christina Hones will join him, and both are among the best in the world.

Mahuchikh spoke confidently in Doha before his season’s open. “I am in a strong physical and mental state, and I am excited to start my season here,” he said. “This competition offers a unique atmosphere and platform so that it can reach what we can achieve.”

This mixture of painting and athletics is not only for the show. The event is awarded a $ 155,000 prize pouch, the winner of which receives a cup designed by Qatar sculptor Ahmed Al-Bahrani. His work is rooted in both modern art and in the local tradition, adds another layer of identity to the competition, connecting sports culture in a way that feels than forced.

The format is for intensity. Condensed field, compact location and energetic crowds means that athletes should be acute from the first jump. That urgency is what Barshim will return to return to people, not only fans.

For concerts and cultural events, the amphitheater, which is reserved for concerts and cultural events, provides a cinematic place for concerts and cultural events. Local Roman-inspired steps and coastal background offer something to television that may not always capture. Intimate relationships. Fans sit from flying just meters, they are closed enough to equip their exhalation.

As a global path and field searches for the way to connect with the young audience, what kind of gravity is a bold rhythm. And while it can’t bear the weight of the main championship, it has something that most satisfies the clarity of the goals. It’s short, sharp and built around the types of viral moments.

Hope, of course, is that it inspires not only fans, but to the next generation of athletes. “When I was a child, I never imagined to do such a thing,” said Barshim. “Now we have the opportunity to show the future of our sports here.