Marcell Jacobs is gold medal in 60 meters at the Indoor Athletics World Championships in Belgrade. The Olympic champion of 100 and 4×100 won the final with a time of 6.41, beating the American Christian Coleman in the photo finish. Bronze to the other American Marvin Bracy. The time set is also the new European and Italian distance record.
Jacobs, beaten at the starter by Coleman, caught up with his rival managing to pass him at the finish line by just three thousandths. To be sure of victory, the blue had to wait for the photo finish check, which confirmed Coleman’s second place and Bracy’s third, with 6.44.
“Does the magic continue?” Magic but also hard work. I arrived here trying to find the best conditions and we proved once again that we are the strongest when it counts ». This is how Marcell Jacobs comments, to Rai Sport’s microphones, on the gold medal in the 60 meters at the Indoor World Championships in Belgrade. «I wanted to show that what I did at the Olympics was not a coincidence but the result of hard work over many years – he continues – I tested myself on a distance that wasn’t mine, I had to improve a lot and I managed to do it. And now I can’t wait to go back to doing the 100 meters to continue dreaming and making people dream ». Jacobs struggles to hold back the emotion: “I really wanted these moments. If I were to win the three big races this year (Indoor World, World and European Championships, ed) I would have won everything there is to win in athletics. And the first is gone ».