{"id":1977,"date":"2021-08-01T16:12:52","date_gmt":"2021-08-01T16:12:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news25.org\/?p=1977"},"modified":"2021-08-02T00:23:58","modified_gmt":"2021-08-02T00:23:58","slug":"tokyo-olympics-lamont-marcell-jacobs-claims-shock-100m-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.news25.org\/tokyo-olympics-lamont-marcell-jacobs-claims-shock-100m-gold\/","title":{"rendered":"Tokyo Olympics: Lamont Marcell Jacobs claims shock 100m gold"},"content":{"rendered":"

Italy’s Lamont Marcell Jacobs claimed a shock gold in the Olympic 100m final, after Great Britain’s Zharnel Hughes was disqualified for a false start.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Jacobs, who only switched away from long jump in 2018, streaked clear to win in 9.80\u00a0seconds, 0.04\u00a0clear of American Fred Kerley.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Canada’s Andre de Grasse won a second successive Olympic bronze in third.<\/span><\/p>\n

World champion Christian Coleman and Trayvon Bromell, the world’s fastest in 2021, were both absent from the final.<\/span><\/p>\n

Coleman,\u00a0<\/span>banned for whereabouts failures<\/span>\u00a0after missing three drugs tests, and Bromell, eliminated in the semi-finals, were joined on the sidelines by the long-retired defending champion Usain Bolt.<\/span><\/p>\n

Few would have picked Jacobs, who was born in Texas to an American father but moved to his mother’s Italian homeland before his first birthday, as the Jamaican great’s successor.<\/span><\/p>\n

Jacobs only broke the 10-second barrier for the first time in May.<\/span><\/p>\n