Olympic champion Marcell Jacobs wins men’s European 100m title

Photo: Vlad Indrei

Olympic champion Lamont Marcell Jacobs put an injury-ravaged season behind him to storm to gold in the 100m gold in the European Athletics Championships in Munich on Tuesday.

Jacobs, who withdrew before the semi-finals of the 100m at last month's world championships in Oregon, clocked a championship record-equalling time of 9.95 seconds.

Defending champion Zharnel Hughes claimed silver in 9.99sec with another Briton, Jeremiah Azu, taking bronze in 10.13.

"This was a difficult season with problems, with injury," said the 27-year-old Italian, who has been beset by leg injuries and who competed with a heavily-strapped left calf in Munich.

"My leg is not good and I am not happy about how the race went technically, there were some problems.

"But I am over the moon with the gold medal. After Olympic gold, I've now got the European gold. I've got to get the world championship gold now."