Athletics, sensational at the indoor Assoluti: Jacobs beaten by Ceccarelli on 60m

Sensational at the Assoluti Indoor Athletics Championships in Ancona: the 100m Olympic champion Marcell Jacobs was defeated by Samuele Ceccarelli in the 60m final. The 23-year-old from Atletica Firenze Marathon) imposes himself with a time of 6″54, the third best time of the year. Jacobs instead has to settle for second place with 6″55, complete with a small physical problem at the end of the race.

Born in 2000, 23 years old since last January 9, Ceccarelli has taken the luxury, and the merit, of beating the reigning Olympic and European champion of the 100 meters, as well as world and European champion of the 60 meters indoors, Marcell Jacobs. On the straight of the Palaindoor of the capital of the Marches, the sprinter of the Athletics Florence Marathon imposed himself with 6″54, improving by four cents what he did on 10 February in Berlin but above all he placed third in the all-time Italian distance ranking .

Ceccarelli, 23 years old from Massa Carrara, figures behind Jacobs’ 6″41 (March 19, 2022) and Michael Tumi’s 6″51 (February 17, 2013) and ahead of Pierfrancesco Pavoni’s 6″55 (March 7, 1990). 6″55 by Jacobs (Fiamme Oro) is seasonal personal. Third in 6″69 Roberto Rigali. In the shot put Leonardo Fabbri tricolor jersey for Leonardo Fabbri with 21.60 meters to seven hundredths of a second from the Italian record, according to Zane Weir with 21.46.