{"id":44378,"date":"2021-08-02T19:11:44","date_gmt":"2021-08-02T17:11:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/?p=44378"},"modified":"2021-08-02T18:47:54","modified_gmt":"2021-08-02T16:47:54","slug":"italian-jacobs-wins-100m-race-at-olympics-succeeds-bolt-as-fastest-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/italian-jacobs-wins-100m-race-at-olympics-succeeds-bolt-as-fastest-man","title":{"rendered":"Italian Jacobs Wins 100M Race At Olympics, Succeeds Bolt As Fastest Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\">Zimbabwe<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>Italian Lamont Marcell Jacobs won the men\u2019s 100m race at the Tokyo Olympics to win gold and succeed the retired Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt as the fastest man on earth.<\/p>\n<p>Bolt has been dominant for the past 16 years winning gold at the 2008, 2012 and 2016 Olympics.<\/p>\n<p>Setting a new European record in the process with a time of 9.80 seconds, Jacobs pushed the U.S. sprinter Fred Kerley into second.<\/p>\n<p>Kerley\u2019s time of 9.84 was just 0.05 seconds quickly than Canada\u2019s Andre De Grasse who took Bronze.<\/p>\n<p>A relative unknown, even in his home country, Jacobs was a long-jump specialist for years, and his biggest major success was an indoor 60-meter win at European champions. He told reporters after the event:<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a dream, really, really fantastic.<\/p>\n<p>The son of an American father and an Italian mother, he was born in El Paso, Texas but moved to Italy as a young boy when the U.S. military transferred his dad to South Korea. Watch the moment Jacobs won.<\/p>\n<p>His path was made that much easier when American Trayvon Bromell, who came into Tokyo with the world\u2019s leading time and as the odds-on favourite, failed to make the final.<\/p>\n<p>Jacobs\u2019 victory marked a momentous occasion for Italy, who just minutes earlier celebrated high jumper Gianmarco Tamberi\u2019s gold medal.<\/p>\n<p>With less than two-tenths of a second separating all of the qualifying times from the men\u2019s semifinals, there was no clear favourite to win.<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s Su Bingtian who became the first Chinese man to reach the men\u2019s 100m final was the fastest semifinalist with a time of 9.83 seconds \u2014 a new Asian record. But he could not emulate that in the final.<\/p>\n<p>In the high jump, Tamberi shared gold with Qatari Mutaz Essa Barshim.<\/p>\n<p><b>More: CBC news<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Zimbabwe. Italian Lamont Marcell Jacobs won the men\u2019s 100m race at the Tokyo Olympics to win gold and succeed the retired Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt as the fastest man on earth. Bolt has been dominant for the past 16 years winning gold at the 2008, 2012 and 2016 Olympics. Setting a new European [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":44377,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,35,16,15],"tags":[1493,2189,19],"class_list":{"0":"post-44378","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-all-news","8":"category-homepage-english","9":"category-sport","10":"category-twitter","11":"tag-africa-press","12":"tag-africa-press-zimbabwe-2","13":"tag-zimbabwe"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.1 (Yoast SEO v24.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Italian Jacobs Wins 100M Race At Olympics, Succeeds Bolt As Fastest Man - zimbabwe<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Italian Lamont Marcell Jacobs won the men\u2019s 100m race at the Tokyo Olympics to win gold and succeed the retired Jamaican ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/italian-jacobs-wins-100m-race-at-olympics-succeeds-bolt-as-fastest-man\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Italian Jacobs Wins 100M Race At Olympics, Succeeds Bolt As Fastest Man\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Italian Lamont Marcell Jacobs won the men\u2019s 100m race at the Tokyo Olympics to win gold and succeed the retired Jamaican ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/italian-jacobs-wins-100m-race-at-olympics-succeeds-bolt-as-fastest-man\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"zimbabwe\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-08-02T17:11:44+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2021-08-02T16:47:54+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2021\/08\/img-6108219fd0b29.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"600\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/italian-jacobs-wins-100m-race-at-olympics-succeeds-bolt-as-fastest-man\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/italian-jacobs-wins-100m-race-at-olympics-succeeds-bolt-as-fastest-man\",\"name\":\"Italian Jacobs Wins 100M Race At Olympics, Succeeds Bolt As Fastest Man - 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