The Italian Marcel JacobsOlympic and European 100-meter sprint champion, opened his season on the track this Saturday with a victory in 60 meters in the Lodz Rally (Poland), bronze category test of the international circuit of World Athletics.
Jacobs got through the previous round in first place with a time of 6.61 and prevailed in the final with 6.57 ahead of Pole Dominik Kopec (6.60) and Trinidadian Jerod Elcock (6.63).
Other opponents in Lodz are Pia Skrzyszowska, 100 meter hurdles champion at last year’s European Championships in Munich. The 21-year-old Polish athlete won in a time of 7.78, a record that was his personal best, which was six hundredths better than the one set in Düsseldorf last week.
Skrzyszowska fell within a second of the Polish record set in 1980 by Zofia Bielczyk at 7.77.
Source: La Verdad
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