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Marcell Jacobs
Jacobs in 2020
Personal information
Full nameLamont Marcell Jacobs Jr.
National teamItaly (2016–)[1]
Born (1994-09-26) 26 September 1994 (age 30)
El Paso, Texas, United States
Height1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)
Weight79 kg (174 lb)
Sport
SportAthletics
Event(s)Long jump
Sprinting
ClubG.S. Fiamme Oro
Coached byPaolo Camossi
Gianni Lombardi[2]
Achievements and titles
Personal bests
  • 60 m: 6.47 s NR (2021)
  • 100 m: 9.80 s AR (2021)
  • 200 m: 20.61 s (2018)
  • 4×100 m relay: 38.11 NR (2019)
  • Long jump: 8.07 m (i) (2017)
Medal record
Men's track and field
Representing  Italy
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 2020 Tokyo 100 m
World Relays
Silver medal – second place 2021 Chorzów 4×100 m relay
European Indoor Championships
Gold medal – first place 2021 Toruń 60 m
European Team Championships
Silver medal – second place 2019 Bydgoszcz 100 m

Lamont Marcell Jacobs Jr. (born 26 September 1994) is an Italian track and field sprinter and long jumper, current 100 metres Olympic champion and 60 metres European champion. He holds the 100 metres European record and 60 metres Italian record. He is the first Italian to ever qualify for - and win - the men's 100 metres Olympic final, a feat that he achieved at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo.

Jacobs closed the 2020–21 indoor season as World Leader at 60 metres.[3]

Early life

Jacobs is the son of Viviana Masini, an Italian woman, and Lamont Marcell Jacobs Sr., an African American serviceman.[4][5][6][7][8] His parents met when his father was a United States Army soldier serving at Caserma Ederle in Vicenza, Italy. His father was 18 and his mother was 16 at the time.[8]

His parents married and relocated to Fort Bliss in El Paso, Texas. Three years later, Jacobs was born.[8] However, when he was three weeks old, his father was transferred to South Korea and Jacobs moved to Desenzano del Garda with his mother.[9][10] His parents split when he was six months old.[11]

He started out playing basketball and football, where his football coach, Adriano Bertazzi, took notice of his speed and suggested that Jacobs try sprinting.[2]

Jacobs began competing in athletics there at the age of ten, initially preferring sprinting, then discovering the long jump in 2011.

Athletics career

In 2016, Jacobs won the Italian Athletics Championships in long jump. With a personal best of 8.07 m, he ranked at tenth place on the IAAF (now World Athletics) world leading list at the end of the 2017 indoor season.[12] At the 2016 Italian U23 Championships he jumped 8.48 m, the best performance ever for an Italian, although this result was not recognized as a national record due to a 2.8 m/s tailwind (the allowable maximum for any record performance is 2.0 m/s).[13][14]

Around 2019 he then decided to turn his efforts exclusively to sprinting, citing frequent injuries among the reasons for this switch.[15]

Soon after, in July 2019, he lowered his 100 metres PB to 10.03 s, making him the third fastest Italian in history.[15]

On 6 March 2021 he won the 60 metres European title at the 2021 European Athletics Indoor Championships held in Toruń, Poland, setting a new national record and worldwide season best with a time of 6.47 s.[15]

On 13 May 2021, in Savona, Italy, he set the Italian record in the 100 metres with a time of 9.95 s,[16] becoming the 150th person in history and the second Italian to break the 10-second barrier. On 26 June 2021, into a headwind of −1.0 m/s, he beat the Italian championships' record with a time of 10.01 s, in Rovereto, winning his fourth national title in a row.

2020 Olympics

Jacobs arrived at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics as the 60 metres world leader. He won his first 100 metres heat in 9.94, improving his own Italian record by 0.01. In the semi-final he was third with 9.84, setting a new European record and qualifying for the final with the third overall fastest time. He was the first Italian to accomplish such a feat.

In the final he won the gold medal in a significant upset, crossing the finish line with a time of 9.80, ahead of favorites Fred Kerley and Andre De Grasse.[17] His performance set a new European record and was the quickest time ever by an athlete from outside the United States or Jamaica, Jacobs becoming the 10th fastest man of all time.[18][19] Jacobs was not favored to win the race, with bookmakers giving him a three percent chance of winning.[20][21]

Statistics

National records

Personal bests

Event Mark Wind (m/s) Venue Date Notes
60 m 6.47 s — Poland Toruń 6 March 2021 Indoor, WL, NR
100 m 9.80 s +0.1 Japan Tokyo 1 Aug 2021 AR, NR
200 m 20.61 s +0.2 Italy Campi Bisenzio 6 May 2018
Long jump 8.07 m — Tunisia Tunis 4 February 2017 Indoor
8.48 m +2.8 Italy Bressanone 10 June 2016 Wind-assisted

Achievements

Year Competition Venue Position Event Performance Notes
2016 Mediterranean U23 Championships Tunisia Tunis 1st Long jump 7.95 m PB
European Championships Netherlands Amsterdam 11th Long jump 7.59 m
2017 European Indoor Championships Serbia Belgrade Qual. Long jump 7.70 m
2018 European Championships Germany Berlin SF 100 m 10.28
2019 IAAF World Relays Japan Yokohama DNF 4×100 m relay no time
European Team Championships (SL) Poland Bydgoszcz 2nd 100 m 10.39
European Indoor Championships United Kingdom Glasgow Qual. Long jump N.M.
World Championships Qatar Doha SF 100 m 10.20
SF 4×100 m relay 38.11 NR
2021 European Indoor Championships Poland Toruń 1st 60 m 6.47 WL, NR
World Relays Poland Chorzów 2nd 4×100 m relay 39.21 [24]
Olympic Games Japan Tokyo 1st 100 m 9.80 AR

Other meetings

Year Competition Venue Position Event Performance Notes
2020 International Triveneto meeting Italy Trieste 1st 100 m 10.10
2021 International Savona meeting Italy Savona 1st 100 m 9.95 NR
BAUHAUS-galan Sweden Stockholm 2nd 100 m 10.05
Herculis Monaco Montecarlo 3rd 100 m 9.99

National titles

Jacobs won seven national championships at individual senior level.[25][26]

Personal life

Jacobs lives in Rome with his partner Nicole Daza and their two children, Anthony (born 2019) and Megan (born 2021).[10][27] Jacobs has another son, Jeremy (born 2013), born from a previous relationship when Jacobs was nineteen.[28]

Jacobs had been a dual citizen of both Italy and the United States, since birth, due to his mother being Italian and due to his being born in the U.S. However, in 2010, he renounced his American citizenship.[29]

"Only my muscle fibers are American, I feel 100% Italian."[30]

He began representing Italy, in athletics, in 2012.

See also

References

  1. ^ "Marcell Jacobs Bioografia". fidal.it (in Italian). Italian Athletics Federation. Retrieved 3 May 2021.
  2. ^ a b "Third time lucky at European Indoors, Jacobs now turns his attention to outdoor world stage". World Athletics. 6 April 2021.
  3. ^ "Senior Outdoor 2020/21 - 60 Metres Men". worldathletics.org. World Athletics. 10 April 2021.
  4. ^ Marco Imarisio (1 August 2021). "'Un'estate italiana: Tamberi, Jacobs, la Nazionale di Mancini. Lo sport spinge l'Italia a fiducia e resistenza". Corriere Della Sera.
  5. ^ Giulia Zonca (27 September 2019). "I 100 metri visti alla playstation: Tortu e Jacobs pronti al via". La Stampa.
  6. ^ Nancy Montgomery (2 August 2021). "'Who is Lamont Marcell Jacobs, Italy's first fastest man". New York Times.
  7. ^ Kait Hanson (2 August 2021). "Olympic runner says reunion with estranged dad made him 'fastest man in world'". Today.
  8. ^ a b c Lauren McCarthy (1 August 2021). "'World's fastest man' raised by Italian single mother who met his US soldier father at Vicenza". Stars and Stripes.
  9. ^ "Mamma e Garda, le radici di Jacobs l'uomo che l'Italia voleva da anni" (in Italian). fidal.it. 15 May 2021.
  10. ^ a b "Lamont Marcell Jacobs biography" (in Italian). fidal.it.it. Retrieved 28 August 2017. La mamma, sposata con un texano, è tornata in Italia quando Marcell era ancora bambino.
  11. ^ "Olympic champion Jacobs was determined to find his dad". The Washington Post. 1 August 2021. Retrieved 2 August 2021. ... but his parents split when he was 6 months old.
  12. ^ "SENIOR INDOOR 2017 - TRIPLE JUMP MEN". iaaf.org. Retrieved 28 August 2017.
  13. ^ "Atletica, Jacobs vola: 8.48 ventoso" (in Italian). gazzetta.it. Retrieved 28 August 2017.
  14. ^ "Jacobs, ancora un lampo: 10.12 a Campi Bisenzio!" (in Italian). fidal.it.it. Retrieved 5 May 2018.
  15. ^ a b c "Third time lucky at European Indoors, Jacobs now turns his attention to outdoor world stage". World Athletics. Retrieved 3 August 2021.
  16. ^ a b "Athletics - Final Results". olympics.com. 1 August 2021. Retrieved 1 August 2021.
  17. ^ "Tokyo Olympics: Lamont Marcell Jacobs claims shock 100m gold". BBC Sport. 1 August 2021. Retrieved 4 August 2021.
  18. ^ "Athletics-Italian Jacobs wins men's 100m gold at Tokyo Olympics". Reuters. 1 August 2021. Retrieved 1 August 2021.
  19. ^ "100 Metres - men - senior -outdoor". World Athletics. 3 August 2021. Retrieved 3 August 2021.
  20. ^ Adam Kilgore (1 August 2021). "'In 9.80 seconds, a broad-shouldered, baldheaded Italian man born in Texas shocked the world". Washington Post.
  21. ^ Andy Bull (1 August 2021). "Marcell Jacobs has inspiring story to share in sprinting's post-Bolt era". The Guardian.
  22. ^ "JACOBS ORO nei 60, con un gran 6"47" (in Italian). raisport.rai.it. 6 March 2021. Retrieved 7 March 2021.
  23. ^ "Doha: doppia 4x100 da record, azzurre in finale" (in Italian). fidal.it. 4 October 2019. Retrieved 5 October 2019.
  24. ^ "Results 4 x 100 Metres Relay Men - Final" (PDF). worldathletics.org. 2 May 2021. Retrieved 3 May 2021.
  25. ^ "CAMPIONATI "ASSOLUTI" – UOMINI TUTTI I CAMPIONI – 1906-2016" (PDF). sportolimpico.it. Retrieved 28 August 2017.
  26. ^ "Dal Molin record italiano 13.27, Jacobs 10.01!" (in Italian). fidal.it. 26 June 2021. Retrieved 27 June 2021.
  27. ^ Jacobs, l'annuncio che spiazza della compagna Nicole Daza: "Il nostro futuro è negli Stati Uniti". La Stampa. 4 August 2021. Event occurs at 3m08s.
  28. ^ "Atletica, chi è Marcell Jacobs, il nuovo recordman italiano sui 100 metri" (in Italian). tg24.sky.it. 13 May 2021. Retrieved 14 May 2021. Padre di tre figli, Anthony e Megan avuti dall'attuale compagna Nicole, e Jeremy da una relazione precedente all'età di 19 anni.
  29. ^ James Dator (2 August 2021). "'Lamont Marcell Jacobs, Italy's history-making 100m Olympic gold medalist, explained". SB Nation.
  30. ^ Alberto Dolfin (14 May 2021). "Atletica:ecco chi è Lamont Marcell Jacobs, il recordman azzurro sui 100 metri" (in Italian). La Stampa.
Records
Preceded by Men's 100 metres European record holder
1 August 2021 – present 		Succeeded by
Incumbent
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