2023-05-09 13:42:43
Published on May 9, 2023 at 3:42 p.m. – updated on May 9, 2023 at 4:13 p.m.
The 100m world champion Fred Kerley and the Olympic champion Marcell Jacobs will face Florence on June 2 in the third stage of the Diamond League.
In 19 days in Rabat will take place the second of the fourteen stages of the Diamond League 2023, which began Friday in Doha. It will then be Florence’s turn on June 2. And the Tuscan city (which replaces Rome this year due to the refurbishment of the Olympic Stadium track for the 2024 European Athletics Championships) will be the scene of a highly anticipated duel. The 100m world champion, the American Fred Kerley (28 years old, record at 9″76) and the Olympic champion, the Italian Marcell Jacobs (28 years old, record at 9″80) will indeed compete on the track of the Luigi Ridolfi stadium. It will be their first confrontation since the final of the 2021 Olympic Games in Tokyo, where Jacobs triumphed over Kerley, by four hundredths. Injuries and scheduling choices then prevented a new duel between the two strong men of the world sprint. “If we face each other, I’ll be there and I’ll definitely win,” said the American last week at a press conference in Doha, where he won the 200m event in 19″92.
Watch out for Bromell
But the two men, who have not yet competed in the 100m this year, are not sure to play for victory, since a third sprinter might well join the fight, in the person of the American Trayvon Bromell ( 27 years old, record in 9″76), winner of the Diamond League over 100m last year. To date, it is the Bahamian Terrence Jones who has the best world performance of the season in the 100m, thanks to his time of 9″91 achieved in Gainesville, Florida on April 15. But the outdoor season has just started, and all the athletes are aiming for peak form for the World Championships in Budapest in August. The first Frenchman (18th world performer) is Mouhamadou Fall, thanks to his time of 10″06 signed in Texas on March 25.
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