Marcell Jacobs, another hiccup a month before Worlds

One month before the start of the World Athletics Championships, scheduled in Tokyo, Japan, from Sept. 13 to 21, Marcell Jacobs has to stop due to an injury: the 100-meter flat champion at the Olympic Games held in the Japanese capital in the summer of 2021 will have to forgo the next two Diamond League events.

“Marcell Jacobs has cancelled his participation in the planned Diamond League events in Lausanne and Brussels on August 20 and 22 – reads a Fidal note -. The cause, according to the Tokyo 2020 Olympian’s staff, is due to a minor muscle injury that occurred during training” in recent days.

“L’azzurro has been invited to Rome by Fidal to undergo a series of diagnostic examinations at the Institute of Medicine and Sports Science, in order to assess his state of health in function of his participation in the World Championships in Tokyo next September” concludes the note of the Federation, explaining the next steps of the blue champion.

A class of 1994, Marcell Jacobs is the European record holder in the 100 meters, with a time of 9″80 set right at the Tokyo Olympic Games, which saw him triumph at the finish line, and in the indoor 60 meters, with a time of 6″41 set in Belgrade in 2022. His last major results, in chronological order, date back to the European Championships in Rome 2024, where he won gold in the 100 and 4×100. In Paris, in the Olympic Games, he did not go beyond fifth place, in a nonetheless hyper-competitive final that ended with a time of 9″85.