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Talk of The Week: Mutaz Barshim named Male World Athlete of the Year
Courtesy of Richard MilleMutaz Essa Barshim, who has been part of the Richard Mille family since 2017, has just soared to new heights
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Courtesy of Richard Mille
Mutaz Essa Barshim, who has been part of the Richard Mille family since 2017, has just soared to new heights. He was named Male World Athlete of the Year at the IAAF Athletics Awards 2017, held at the Grimaldi Forum in Monaco on Nov. 24.
This is the very first time a high jump athlete has achieved this distinction, which eluded even the great Sotomayor. Not content with having made nine of the best high jumps this year, capped by 2 leaps over the 2.40 bar, and being the first high jumper in history to leap 2.40 m or higher in five successive years, Mutaz is still raising the bar.
“The world record is not an easy one, but if I stay fit and healthy, I’m sure I can jump 2.46 or 2.47,” Barshim said. The same need to go ever further and higher inspired the RM 67-02 Automatic High Jump, a timepiece which is itself at the very pinnacle of innovation.
