Athletics, Jacobs wins on his debut on the 60 meters in Berlin

The 100 and 4×100 Olympic champion returns to the track for the first time in the indoor meeting and triumphs ahead of the Ivorian Cissé and the French Vicaut

From our correspondent Andrea Buongiovanni

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February 4th
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What a sight, Marcell Jacobs! The Olympic champion returns to the competition after six months and is back in a great way. He wins the 60th of the Istaf meeting at the Marcedes-Benz Arena in Berlin, the Silver stage of the World Indoor Tour, in 6 ”51, just 4/100 from his Italian record set last March by winning the European Championships in Torun.

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A year later

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A year ago, on the same German track, he made his debut with a 6 ”55, a personal best at the time. It does much better, confirming a qualitative leap that is in fact. The blue, eighty minutes after a somewhat cumbersome 6 ”57 in the battery, has a splendid reaction to the shot (0” 139), then perhaps a minimum uncertainty, but when he turns on the turbo there is none for anyone. The acceleration is impressive, the action is relaxed, the final overwhelming: the best continental performance of the season immediately follows. The others end up very far away: the Ivorian Arthur Cissé, who twelve months ago, in this context, mocked him for 3/100, is 6 “60, the French Jimmy Vicaut 6” 61, the German Kevin Kranz 6 “66. See you next Friday, at the Polish meeting in Lodz. Welcome back, champion.

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Good feelings

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All the satisfaction of Jacobs after the race: “Not bad, I’m quite happy. I was sorry in the battery not having found good sensations, in the final it went much better. The goal was to get closer to 6”50, I succeeded. Now the important thing is to aim for the goals of the season, the next is the World Cup in March, we still have a month and a half of work, we hope to do good things. Jacobs? It’s the same as before, same desire to win and same determination , who sometimes even gets it on himself. Thanks to all the positive messages that have come to me, continue to support me that we will do great things “.

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