Romele Glave defeated Marcel Jacobs on 100 meters gold for ‘redemption’

Great Britain’s Romel Glave topped the men’s 100m finals at the Pavo Nurmi Games in Finland and topped a field including Andre D. Grass and Marcel Jacobs to win.

Glave won with a time of 10.08 seconds, Jerome Black of Canada and Benjamin Azmati of Ghana came to 10.09 and 10.10 respectively.

Canadian D Grass – Tokyo 2020 Olympic 200m Gold Medal winner – 10.23 came sixth in the World Athletics Continental Tour Gold Meeting in Turku.

Jacobs, who won the 100 meter Olympic gold five years ago, was running in Paris for the first time after the 2024 games, finally with 10.44.

“This (2024) is redemption from the European Championship, where I ended behind Jacobs (who wins gold),” said 25 -year -old Glave.

“This time I got better than that. After the heat I felt a little tight, but I had enough time to get hot and leave it back.

“I was able to be patient compared to my previous race, I just focused on the first 30 meters.”

Meanwhile, Britain’s Morgan Lake won the high jump of women on the countback ahead of Lamara Dystin of Jamaica as they both managed 1.91 meters.

Christzan Seh of Slovenia won the seventh gradual victory of the season with gold in discus, with the top three beyond 70 meters.

The 2022 World Champion defeated Australia’s Olympic bronze medalist Matt Denny and Sweden’s two -time world gold medalist Daniel Stall to throw 70.61 meters to 70.61 meters.

Back to the track, USA’s Dylan Beard won the 110 meter men’s hurdles in a meeting record of 13.16.

Switzerland’s World indoor silver medalist Dataji Kambundji won the women’s 100 meter Hurdles finals, with 12.66 clocking, with Pia Scarzisovska denied just 0.02.

Zo Hobbes of New Zealand saw 11.07 after the heat of 11.09, scoring 0.02 runs in a women’s 100 meter meeting records and winning 0.04 from Hungary’s Boglaraka Takack.

The record of another meeting fell into the men’s 3,000 -meter steeplecase as Germany’s Frederick Rupert continued his good form to win in 8 minutes 10.39 seconds, ending his compatriot Carl Bebendor before a second before a second, which took a personal best of 8: 11.52.

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