The Olympic 100m champion clinched the world indoor 60m title, while Keely Hodgkinson’s injury forced her to withdraw from the championships
No doubts, no caveats. Marcell Jacobs proved emphatically that he is the fastest man on the planet as he won a race for the ages at the world indoor championships.
Both men had run 6.41 seconds – the ninth quickest time in history. But, after an eternal wait, Jacobs got the nod by three-thousandths of a second. “I hoped and prayed, please first, and it happened,” he said. Another American, Marvin Bracy, took bronze in 6.44, while Britain’s Adam Thomas was fifth in 6.60 sec.
Elsewhere on the second day of competition there were gold medals for Olympic 400m champion Shaunae Miller-Uibo, who ran a storming 50.31 sec to beat Femke Bol, and Sandi Morris in the women’s pole vault.
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