Marcell Jacobs will compete again in Berlin in February of next year.
Lamont Marcell Jacobs, Italy’s two-time Olympic champion, said that he will compete again in Berlin in February of next year.
Jacobs, 27, revealed his participation in the ISTAF outdoor event on February 4 at the Olympic Stadium in Berlin while speaking at a book launch in Rome.
He hasn’t competed since earning gold in the 100-meter dash and the 4×100-meter relay at the Tokyo Olympics earlier this year.
About Lamont Marcell Jacobs:
Lamont Marcell Jacobs is an Italian sprinter and long jumper who competes in track and field. He is the son of an Italian lady named Viviana Masini and an African American serviceman named Lamont Marcell Jacobs Sr.
His parents met while his father was stationed in Caserma Ederle in Vicenza, Italy, as a US Army soldier. At the time, his father was 18, and his mother was 16.
His parents married and moved to El Paso, Texas, to Fort Bliss. Jacobs was born three years later; his father was sent to South Korea when he was three weeks old, and Jacobs and his mother relocated to Desenzano del Garda, Lombardy, Italy. When he was six months old, his parents divorced.
Jacobs began his athletic career by playing basketball and football when his football coach, Adriano Bertazzi, noticed his speed and advised that he attempt sprinting.
Even though Jacobs was born in the United States, he considers himself Italian. He lives in Rome with his wife, Nicole Daza, and their two children, Anthony (born 2019) and Megan (born 2019). (born 2021). Jacobs also has a son, Jeremy (born 2013), from a prior relationship with nineteen years old.
Jacobs had been alienated from his father since he was a child, but on the advice of his mental coach, he restored contact with him in 2020. He stated that reconnecting with his father provided him with the drive and peace of mind he required to concentrate on winning the Olympics.
He is the Olympic 100-meter champion in 2020, the European 60-meter champion in 2021, and a gold-medal-winning 4×100-meter relay team in 2020. He is the first Italian to qualify for and win the men’s 100 metres Olympic final. He also owns the European and Italian records in the 60 metres.
Jacobs is the first Italian to win the event’s gold medal and the first European to do it since Linford Christie did so in the 1992 Barcelona Olympics. His time was the fastest ever run by a non-American or Jamaican athlete, breaking the European mark he achieved in the semi-final earlier that day.
Thanks to this feat, he has now tied with Steve Mullings as the 10th fastest man of all time. Jacobs was not considered a favourite to win the race, with bookmakers giving him a 3% chance of winning.
Together with Lorenzo Patta, Fausto Desalu, and Filippo Tortu, Jacobs won a second gold medal in the 4100 metres as part of the Italian relay team. It was the first time Italy had ever won this event and the first time Italy had won a medal in 73 years.
Jacobs raced the team’s second leg, adding to the team’s overall time of 37.50 seconds, a new Italian record.The Italian Olympic Committee chose Jacobs to be Italy’s flag bearer at the Olympics closing ceremony because of his excellent performances.
Following his Olympic victory, he missed five Diamond League events, including the two-day finals in Zurich on September 8-9.
Jacobs’ manager, Marcello Magnani, told Reuters at the time that he was taking a sabbatical due to no injuries or other health concerns. “It’s just that Marcell has given so much this year, all he has,” he explained, “that insisting (on competing) would only mean risking harm.”
