- Olympic 100m champion clinches world indoor 60m title
- Keely Hodgkinson injury forces championship withdrawal
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.
Many had derided Jacobs’ 100m Olympic gold medal in Tokyo last year as a fluke. But he summoned a performance of devastating serenity to defeat the world 60m record holder Christian Coleman in a barnstormer of a contest that lived up to its billing.