Marcell Jacobs , the king, is back . After a troubled season , the 100-meter Olympic champion wins gold at the European Athletics Championships in Munich with a time of 9.95 (+0.1), equaled the championship record and the first time under ten seconds this season.
The Olympic champion and European record holder enriches his gold collection at the Olympiastadion, beating the two British sprinters Zharnel Hughes (9.99) and Jeremiah Azu (10.13), and enters history : he is the fourth man to win European gold of the 100 after the Olympic one .
Now, therefore, Jacobs is reigning Olympic champion of 100 and 4x100, indoor world champion (in March in Belgrade), indoor European champion (Torun 2021) and now king of Europe outdoors.
"Thank you for those who cheered for me. It was a complicated and difficult season - the Italian commented on Rai Sport's microphones - Bringing the gold home is exciting and gives me confidence for the future . race, in the semifinals I seemed to have run much better ".
Italy returns to the podium of the 100 at the European Championships forty years after Pierfrancesco Pavoni's silver in Athens 1982 . In the final of the 100 the other blue, Chituru Ali, closes in eighth place with 10.28 after having run the personal best of 10.12 in the semifinals. In the women's final the blue Zaynab Dosso is seventh, capable of 11.37 (+0.1) in the race that crowns the German Gina Luckenkemper (10.99).
Italy is also celebrating thanks to Yeman Crippa and his bronze with a time of 13: 24.83, preceded in a thrilling three-way fight on the last lap by the Norwegian world champion Jakob Ingebrigtsen (13: 21.13) and the Spanish Mohamed Katir (13: 22.98). For the Trentino delle Fiamme Oro it is the second European medal on the track after the bronze won four years ago in Berlin in the 10,000 meters, a specialty that he will face on Sunday on the final day of the European Championships to look for another podium.
(Unioneonline / vl)