«Thank you all for the support, a time that says a lot and little, but what I’m most happy about is that I felt my running, my technique and my strength. Thanks to my team and my family who always support me.” Marcell Jacobs wrote it the day after his phenomenal time of 9.67 in the 100 metres, unfortunately windy (above 2.0 meters per second), at the Eisenstadt meeting in Austria. “I’m very happy because I’m improving with each race – Marcell commented at the end of the race -. Of course, there was a lot of wind, but only Bolt in history has gone under this time and I’m really happy to have obtained a time like that.” Yes, Usain Bolt, himself, the poster boy of world athletics in the early 2000s who was able to run 9″58 in Berlin 2009, the World Championships final.
The 9″67, which arrived after the excellent 9″84 run an hour and a half earlier in the heat and also not approved due to the wind at +2.3, is the best “windy” world performance ever. Before returning to Italy, today Jacobs was in Munich for a routine medical check-up by Professor Hans-Wilhelm Mueller-Wohlfahrt. The next competitive event has already been set: the Fiamme Oro sprinter will be in Monte Carlo on 10 July for the ‘Meeting Herculis’ where he will have as opponents (currently these are confirmed), the American Jordan Anthony, the Jamaican Oblique Seville and Letsile Tebogo from Botswana.