Team Nigeria’s Enoch Adegoke failed to win gold in the men’s 100m, as he pulled his hamstring after 30m and was unable to finsh the race.
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Allan Wipper Wells MBE (born 3 May 1952) is a former British track and field sprinter who became the 100 metres Olympic champion at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. … He currently remains the last white male athlete without African or African-American ancestry to win the 100 metres at the Olympics.
Italian Marcell Jacobs wins gold with a time of 9.80s, with American Fred Kerley & Canadian Andre de Grasse winning Silver & Bronze respectively.
Italy’s Lamont Marcell Jacobs claims shock 100m gold to succeed Usain Bolt as world’s fastest man
Jacobs time of 9.80 seconds was a new European record.
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Italy’s Lamont Marcell Jacobs became the fastest man in the world when he took gold in the men’s 100m final at the Tokyo Olympics on Sunday — taking the spot held for the past 13 years by the now-retired Usain Bolt.
Setting a new European record in the process with a time of 9.80 seconds, Jacobs pushed U.S. sprinter Fred Kerley into second. Kerley’s time of 9.84 was just 0.05 seconds quickly than Canada’s Andre De Grasse who took Bronze.
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.
“It’s a dream, really, really fantastic,” he told reporters after the event.
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.
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His path was made that much easier when American Trayvon Bromell, who came into Tokyo with the world’s leading time and as the odds-on favorite, failed to make the final.
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