Overseas media said, "It's the biggest surprise at the Tokyo Olympics."


The men's 100-meter track and field final held on the 1st.

It was Italy's Lamont Marcell Jacobs who won the melee race at the first Olympic Games since the retirement of Jamaica's "absolute champion" Usain Bolt, who won the tournament for the third time in a row.

Olympic flower-shaped event, 100 meters for men on land.

Before the tournament, 26-year-old Jacobs, who had a personal best of 9 seconds 95, which is the same as the Japanese record, continued to improve the record in the semifinals and finals, and won the event for the first time as an Italian team at 9 seconds 80.


On the other hand, all three from Japan disappeared in the qualifying, and it was a race that showed the current location of the world.



The eight finalists in this tournament were two from the United States and one from the United Kingdom, Canada, South Africa, Italy, China and Nigeria.


The fact that all the Jamaicans were eliminated by the semi-finals and six out of eight were in the finals for the first time was a sign of the dawn of a new era.

One of them, Su Bingtian of China, marked 9 seconds 83, which set his own Asian record in the semifinals by 8/100 seconds at a stretch.

Jacobs of the same group also marked 9 seconds 84, and at this point he set a personal best of 0.11 seconds, breaking the European record.



On the other hand, American player Trayvon Bromell, who had set the world's fastest time of 9 seconds 77 this season, lost the semi-final at 10 seconds, and the final was a melee with no idea who would win.

Against this backdrop, it was Jacobs who showed momentum in the final two and a half hours after the semi-finals.

When he got out of the middle of the line, he won the competition and finished, and won the gold medal at 9:80, which was a further update of his personal best.



The innocent new champion responded to media coverage from each country for more than two hours after the race, saying, "The goal was to advance to the finals at the Tokyo Olympics. This result is like a dream and I think it will take four years to understand." Smiled.

The overseas media reported that Jacobs, who was almost unknown in the world before the Games, won the championship, saying, "It is the biggest surprise at the Tokyo Olympics," and Fred Kerley of the United States, who was a silver medal by 4/100 seconds, said, " I didn't know him at all. It was no mark. "

On the other hand, for Japan, who participated in the 100 meters as the strongest member of this tournament, Shuhei Tada, Ryota Yamagata, and Yuki Koike all ended up losing the qualifying, and the result was that they could show their "current location in the world". ..



The players from each country who have advanced to the final will be strong rivals even in the men's 400m relay, which Japan aims to win the gold medal.



So far, Japan has been preparing to overthrow the United States as the biggest wall of the gold medal.

The level of athletes in each country has progressed beyond expectations, and Japan has shown the difference in individual running ability. Will it be appointed in Japan?



With the baton pass technology, which Japan has been evaluated as the world's top, each country is steadily raising the level, and Japan's strategy will be tested at the relay.


The men's 400m relay will be qualifying on the 5th of this month and the final on the 6th of this month.