Mutaz Essa Barsham[a] (Arabic: معتز عيسى برشم, romanized: Muʿtazz ʿĪsā Baršam; born 24 June 1991) is a Qatari track and field athlete who competes in the high jump and is the former Olympic Champion.

Barsham jumps off his left foot, using the Fosbury Flop technique, with a pronounced backwards arch over the bar which he achieves by looking over the landing mat.

[7] These feats made him the first ever graduate of the ASPIRE Academy competing at the World Championships as well as holding the national record in an Olympic sport.

[12] He continued his good form and won a gold medal at the Military World Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil with a 2.28 m clearance.

[13] He made his debut on the global senior stage at the 2011 World Athletics Championships in Daegu and reached the final, missing a medal on count-back and ranking seventh overall.

[15] He began jumping at 2.10 and had first try clearances at 2.15, 2.20 and 2.24, before missing once at 2.28, temporarily falling to second place when Chinese jumper Zhang Guowei cleared on his first try.

At the 2012 Olympic Games, held in London, United Kingdom, on 7 August, Barsham won the bronze medal with a jump of 2.29, finishing in a 3-way tie for third place with Derek Drouin from Canada and Robert Grabarz from Great Britain.

In an interview for the IAAF in April 2013, Barsham said: "It started hurting bad before the (2012) World Indoor Championships and then I had to stop for a bit.

On 3 February, he won the Russian Winter Games in Moscow with yet another world-leading jump of 2.37 – which also tied his Asian indoor record from 2012 – ending that competition with a narrow miss at 2.40.

Mutaz started his outdoor season on 10 April 2013 with an "appearance" at the GCC Athletics Championships held at Doha's Khalifa International Stadium.

He took only two jumps, casually running in from almost half the distance of his usual approach to clear 2.19 meters with his first attempt and then improving to 2.25 with his second.

[19] At the Prefontaine Classic Diamond League Meet in Eugene, Oregon (1 June 2013), Barsham won, being one of 3 men to clear 2.36 (7'8 3/4"), a new met record.

Nonetheless, he entered the 2014 IAAF World Indoor Championships in Sopot, Poland on 8 and 9 March as favorite to medal, behind heavily favored Russian jumper Ivan Ukhov.

In the Finals on Sunday 9 March, Barsham was sensational, clearing 7 consecutive heights on his first attempt, including a new Asian indoor record of 2.38 m (7 ft 9+3⁄4 in).

A week and a half later, at the Adidas Grand Prix, Icahn Stadium, New York City, Barsham and Bondarenko were locked in a tight competition.

[20] Bondarenko and Barsham's jumps are the best in the world since Javier Sotomayor of Cuba cleared 2.42 m in Seville on 5 June 1994.

[21] The two men also made multiple attempts at the record in the final Diamond League meet of the 2014 season in Brussels.

[4] Barsham competed for Qatar in the IAAF World Championships, and won the gold medal in high jump.

In the same year he won the IAAF Diamond League stops in Oslo and Eugene as well as the 8th Asian Indoor Athletics Championships in Tehran, Iran.