Final with surprise winner at the Ancona athletics absolutes.
Marcel Jacobs, Olympian of the 100m at the Tokyo Games, had to give up the scepter on the 60m - distance on which he is the reigning indoor world champion - beaten by the Tuscan Samuele Ceccarelli: that the sprinter from Massa was on the rise he had made it clear with 6.58 scored in Berlin), but that he could beat Jacobs was certainly not predictable. And instead on the Marche track Jacobs and Ceccarelli sprint side by side, synchronized by blocks: in the launched phase, when the Olympian usually leaves everyone behind, Ceccarelli pulls out the winning cue and closes in 6.54, a time that raises him to third Italian sprinter ever.
The world and European indoor champion closes at one cent, setting the timepiece at 6.55 (after the 6.56 of the battery). Naturally incredulous, confused and happy, the blue bearer of the Athletics Firenze Marathon who, with the test in Ancona, is the third European of the year two weeks from the Euroindoor in Istanbul. To close the national podium Roberto Rigali with 6.69.
The winner
« There are no words to describe this emotion, winning the first Italian title in the final with the Olympic champion is something that cannot be told. To Marcell Jacobs I say thank you. I didn't expect that, really. We knew - says the sprinter referring to coach Marco Del Medico - that the physical shape was good, as demonstrated in the races before the Tricolors. But the idea of competing with and beating a champion of this caliber is like no other. A result that is built with patience and sacrifice, athletics gives no gift to anyone. I'm a simple boy - says the young man born in 2000 who started running at 16 and says he was passionate about student competitions - I live in Massa and study Law in Pisa (he's enrolled in the fifth year, ed). I started relatively late compared to many of my colleagues, I've always been excited by athletics. But never at this level. A show ».
