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In the early morning of March 20, the 2022 Indoor Athletics World Championships ended the second day of competition in Belgrade, Serbia, and in the men's 60m final, Tokyo Olympic champion Jacobs beat defending champion and world record holder Coleman to win the championship with a slight advantage of 0.003 seconds, while his 6.407 seconds also set a new personal best, Italian national record, European record, and fourth best in history.
With this victory, Jacobs became the first sprinter to win the Indoor World Championships with an Olympic title, and today the Italians are the brightest sprint stars today. After the match, runners-up Coleman simply took photos with the winner and runner-up. He left the field before the first three finishers. Even when the staff invited him to thank him, Coleman shook his head and refused. Coleman's gaffe will obviously leave a lot of talking points for him and Jacobs to compete in the future...
The men's 60m event is the most high-profile event at the Indoor Athletics World Championships, and the showdown between Olympic champion Jacobs and the event's world record holder Coleman is arguably the most high-profile sprint showdown in athletics in recent years, in a sense, this race will determine the title of the fastest runner in the world in the "post-Bolt era". It is worth noting that before Jacobs, only Gatlin, an Olympic 100-meter champion, had participated in the Indoor Athletics World Championships, because the 60-meter sprint was more conducive to athletes with strong starts, and even Bolt, who was the Olympic 8 gold medalist, had never competed for the world's highest level event.
In this final, Jacobs and Coleman crossed the finish line almost simultaneously, and both of them on the electronic timer were 6.41 seconds. However, after the on-site judgment, Jacobs and Coleman scored 6 seconds 407 seconds and 6 seconds 410 respectively, and Jacobs won the championship with a slight advantage of 0.003 seconds. It is worth mentioning that before this final, Jacobs said in an interview with the Italian "Milan Sports Newspaper", "I am not a favorite to win the championship, nor am I the player that everyone wants to beat, I am like an outsider to play." Coleman is the biggest favourite for the championship and I will get as close as possible to his results and hope to win over him in the end. In the end, Jacobs "counterattacked" Coleman to win the championship, of course, his success will not come as a surprise, except for Coleman.
In fact, during the Tokyo Olympic cycle, Coleman once maintained absolute dominance on the outdoor 100m track and the indoor 60m track: at the 2018 Indoor Athletics World Championships, Coleman won the men's 60m championship in 6.37 seconds; at the 2019 Doha Athletics World Championships, he proudly dominated the men's 100m final with 9.76 seconds; in addition, Coleman also held the world record of 6.34 seconds in the men's 60m, and he was also recognized as Bolt's "first successor". However, because he missed the drug test three times in 12 months, coleman was eventually banned for 18 months after arbitration by the International Court of Arbitration for Sport, so he missed the Competition for the Tokyo Olympic Games.
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At the subsequent Tokyo Olympics, Jacobs rose to prominence, winning two gold medals in the 100m and 100m relays, becoming the brightest star, but because his performance improved too quickly, the British and American media generally questioned his championship. And after the Olympic Games, Jacobs chose to take a long vacation, which also left a lot of imagination space for the outside world. On the other hand, Coleman has been brewing a strong makeover. On February 28 this year, Coleman made a strong comeback at the U.S. Athletics Indoor Championships in Spokane, Washington. He won the national title for the third time with a time of 6.45 seconds and also set the best record of the year in the project.
But just as Coleman was so determined to win the 60m title at the World Indoor Athletics Championships, Jacobs poured a basin of cold water on him. Coleman's post-match impatience is not difficult to understand, you know, the last time the two competed in the same game was back to the 2018 Diamond League Rome game, in which the United States' Ronnie Becker won the 100m gold medal, Coleman was in fourth place, and Jacobs, who was mainly in the long jump at that time, was only seventh. What makes Coleman even more annoyed is that in the 60-meter sprint event, all the top three results in history were created by him, the first of which was the world record of 6.37 seconds set by him in 2018. In the men's 60m event, he has been unbeaten for six consecutive years. In addition, Coleman also has a title of "The Man Who Beat Bolt", and he has twice competed with Bolt in the 100 meters in his career, both times defeating Bolt with a 100% win rate, but now his "Bolt successor" position is likely to be replaced by Jacobs.
It is worth mentioning that after reaching the final with a time of 6.45 seconds in the semi-finals, in an interview with the Milano Sport newspaper about his final competition with Coleman, Jacobs once said, "I sent him a congratulatory message after Coleman won the US Championship a few weeks ago. I had no idea he would reply to me. In his reply, he said: 'Thank you, brother. I appreciate you. Now, we've talked to each other on social media. However, judging from Coleman's lukewarm performance after the final, the relationship between the two was not as close as Jacobs described.
After the two exchanged views on social media, Jacobs often liked Coleman
Today, the huge success of the Indoor Athletics World Championships has made Jacobs a little impatient for the next outdoor season, and it is not known whether the "6-second battle" in Belgrade will set the tone for this season's outdoor 100-meter race, including the Eugene World Championships in Athletics, which will be held in late July.
In Belgrade, Jacobs' 60m is in history
With this counterattack to win the championship, Jacobs and Coleman's next positive PK is destined to be more suspenseful and more exciting. Of course, Coleman, who lost the game, was obviously not willing to give up the title of "sprint first man", and his congratulations to Jacobs after the game were more like a book, "He is a great athlete, I hope we can continue to play wonderful duels in the outdoor season." ”