Olympic 100-meter champion Lamont Marcell Jacobs increased his preparation for the Paris Olympics by running under 10 seconds twice at the Paavo Nurmi Games in Finland. The Italian athlete, who also won a gold medal in the 4x100m relay and ran a 9.80 in the Tokyo final, finished first in his heat in Turku with a time of 9.99 seconds and won the final with a time of 9.92 seconds.
Before Tuesday, the 29-year-old had only run under 10 seconds once, during the Tokyo Games in 2021. In the Tuesday final, he achieved a personal best time of 9.92 seconds. At Kenya’s Olympic trials on Saturday, Ferdinand Omanyala set the season’s best time of 9.79 seconds. The Paris Olympics’ track and field events will take place at the Stade de France from August 1–11.