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This is my best performance this season.\"\r\n\r\nRegarding his satisfaction with his result, Barshim, the gold medalist at the recent Asian Games in Hangzhou, China, continued, \"I am certainly satisfied. The most important thing in such competitions is to win. We won the first edition, and it will remain in Doha. I always promise the fans the best.\"\r\n\r\nBarshim confirmed that the concept of the \"Gravity Challenge Championship\" revolves around hosting tournaments in multiple cities around the world in future seasons.\r\n\r\nBarshim, who has a personal record of 2.43 meters, the second-best jump in history, announced when the first edition was unveiled last February that \"the championship will be included in the IAAF calendar after receiving silver classification, the highest classification an emerging championship can obtain.\"\r\n\r\nBarshim, 32, revealed that he derived the name of the tournament, \"Gravity Challenge,\" from the jumper's ultimate goal of surpassing the bar with a higher jump, which is more a challenge against gravity than against competitors. 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