All season, six-time Olympic medallist Andre De Grasse has been ever so near hitting the Olympic 100m normal, however he has lastly executed it in his closing European cease earlier than heading again to Canada for the Olympic trials. On Tuesday afternoon on the Paavo Nurmi Video games in Finland, De Grasse positioned third within the males’s 100m with a season’s finest time of 10.00 seconds, equalling the Olympic 100m normal mark of 10-flat.
De Grasse completed third within the race behind his coaching associate and the reigning Olympic 100m champion, Marcell Jacobs of Italy, who gained the race in a season’s finest 9.92 seconds (+1.5 m/s). Jacobs’ Italian compatriot, Chituru Ali, completed second with a brand new private better of 9.96 seconds.
Marcell Jacobs 9.92 on the Paavo Nurmi Video games pic.twitter.com/tsTdvisQ3x
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This can be a good signal for De Grasse, who didn’t get the very best begin out of the blocks, however was nonetheless capable of salvage third together with his quickest 100m time since September 2021. Final yr, he did not qualify for the 2023 World Championships within the 100m occasion, failing to advance out of the semi-finals on the Canadian trials.
With De Grasse already reaching the boys’s 200m Olympic normal on the Diamond League closing in September 2023, the 29-year-old can punch his ticket to Paris 2024 subsequent week with a top-three end in both the boys’s 100m or 200m on the Bell Canadian Monitor and Area Trials in Montreal.
At Tokyo 2020, De Grasse gained three medals for Canada in observe and subject. He gained gold within the males’s 200m with a Canadian report time of 19.62 seconds, silver within the 4x100m relay and bronze within the males’s 100m behind Jacobs and American sprinter Fred Kerley.
In a sit-down interview with De Grasse final fall for the launch of his e-book Ignite, the six-time Olympic medallist stated he nonetheless had unfinished enterprise with the 100m, and that he desires to interrupt the Canadian males’s 100m report of 9.84 seconds and win Olympic gold.
