In the 100 meters final, the main race at the 2024 European Championships in Rome, on the Capitoline track Marcell Jacobs confirmed the gold medal in 10.03 with an extraordinary Chituru Ali taking second place and the silver medal with 10.05.
Extraordinary Jacobs and Ali who take center stage in Rome in the 100 meters final at the European Championships. Jacobs prints a good 10.03 which earns him the win gold medalahead of his compatriot who closed the comeback at 10.05 and took the lead an extraordinary silver. Beautiful and very tense final, with Ali having made a false start. Small resentment at the finish line for the 2024 European champion, who makes a clear grimace: probably just cramps from race tension.
Jacobs suffers a muscle problem after arriving
Contained happiness and joy for Marcell Jacobs who immediately after arrival suffers from a muscle problem and grimaces in pain which partially undermines the European achievement in Rome with which he confirmed himself as the fastest on the continent. We will need to understand what he felt behind his left leg but something is definitely wrong because the situation was evident with a strain in his calves: “Around 80 meters I felt my calves getting stiffer, but in the end it’s okay. It was the first time I had raced at such a high level with two races close together and I knew I wouldn’t arrive in my best condition. But I am happy and very happy with this title, more than for the time for which I expected a better time, for the title because I arrived as a European champion. Now we’re still working, the Olympics are in two months and so we’re looking ahead.”
“From Tokyo, Italy has grown and is growing you can see it in the eyes of the athletes who take to the field with balls and the desire to be protagonists and not just to just be there” Jacobs concluded by exalting Italy’s sensational results at the European Championships in Rome, to then leave room for Ali: “The first departure I don’t know what happened but I knew it was the departure of a lifetime. I’m too excited and today I’m already thinking about Paris. Marcell stimulates, I want to beat him and if he goes fast I will always go fast.”
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The semi-finals, Chituru and Jacobs already protagonists
Marcell Jacobs he showed up for the final, running the best time and immediately giving clear sensations, easily winning his heat. A 100 meter race where with 10 meters to go, he even pulled the handbrake, closing at 10.05 with +0.5 wind. Behind him was Pablo Mateo with 10.17 then the Spaniard Guillem Crespi, who set the PB with 10.19.
In the other semi-final, with Roberto Rigali and Chituru AliChituru doesn’t start very well but then leaves everyone on the spot in 10.11, beating the German Owen Ansah, with 10.18, and Dominik Kopec 10.28.
Amarezza Melluzzo first places a PB 10.12 then gets injured in the replay
In the first battery of the 100 floors with Matteo Melluzzo instead of everything happens: the counterstarter is slow to signal a false start and the blue runs the entire 100 meters, Melluzzo, signing his PB of 10.12. But it’s all useless and everything needs to be redone. Melluzzo starts again with a complete 100 in his legs and mentally and physically exhausted, paying in the most bitter way for the heat replay. In the finally good race, the Englishman Romell Glave clocked 10.11, but at 50 meters Melluzzo got up limping, suffering from a strain in his left calf.
