This time the Olympics 2024 is being organized in Paris, the capital of France. More than ten thousand athletes are participating in the largest sporting event of the world. At the same time, a total of 204 countries are ready to participate in the Olympics. The Olympics 2024 are starting from July 26. The history of the Olympics is very old. It started in 1896. In the history of the Olympic Games, many athletes have made their country proud. Every athlete’s eyes are on the gold medal during this time. Meanwhile, do you know that in the history of so many years, it has happened only once when two players were given gold medals in the same event. Let’s know about that special moment when history was created in the Olympics.
One event two golds
In the history of Olympics, it has happened once when two players were given gold medals for the same event. This storied tale unfolded in Tokyo Olympics 2020. In the high jump event, the competition between Qatar’s athlete Mutaz Essa Barshim and Italy’s Gianmarco Tamberi was very tough. Both the athletes were not able to overtake each other even after round after round. The score of both was remaining equal.
Can we have two golds?
As the score of both the players was the same again and again, an official told them that the next step is a jump-off, so that it can be seen who can clear longer than the other. But then the world champion of this sport, Barshim, asked the official, ‘can we have two golds?’ to which the official replied ‘yes, it is possible. ‘On hearing this, both the athletes jumped with joy. After this, both the players shook hands and hugged each other after winning on the podium. Before talking to the official, both hugged and congratulated each other for giving their best performance in the Tokyo Olympics.
No one got the silver medal
Since the gold medal was shared between two athletes, no one got the silver medal in the Men’s High Champ event. The bronze medal went to Maksim Nedasekau of Belarus, who equaled Barshim and Tamberi’s final jump with a jump of 2.37m, but his overall score was lower as he missed some jumps in the initial round.