Marcel Jacobs won gold in the 100m at the European Athletics Championships in Munich. The 27-year-old Neela, the Olympic champion in Tokyo, won in 9”95 ahead of British Charnell Hughes (9″ 99) and Jeremiah Asu (10″ 13). Another blue star Chituru Ali (10″ 28) was eighth. Jacobs had won the semi-final with 10″ 00.

Jacobs dominates the final, equaling the championship record this season, tied by under ten seconds in a consistent wind. The Olympic champion and European record holder enriches his gold collection at the Olympiastadion, winning despite the last few months being marked by a long chain of injuries. To recap: now he’s Olympic champion in the 100 and 4×100, indoor world champion (March in Belgrade), indoor European champion (Toron 2021), and now the king of outdoor Europe.

Forty years after Pierfrancesco Pavoni’s silver in Athens in 1982, Italy returns to the podium in the 100 at the European Championships. Chituru Ali, another Blue in the 100 in the finals clocked a personal best of 10.12 in 10.28 to finish eighth. Semifinal. In the women’s final, Neela Zainab Doso was seventh with 11.37 (+0.1) in the race to crown German Gina Luckenkaemper (10.99).