The American-born 26-year-old became the first Italian to ever medal in the 100 meters, taking gold in Tokyo on Sunday.
is the new men's 100 meters Olympic champion, taking gold in Sunday's final with a time of 9.80 seconds., to Italian mother Viviana Masini and an American father. Jacobs only lived in the U.S. for a month, moving to Italy with his mother when his father was deployed to South Korea with the U.S. Army.newspaper in March. From then, Jacob and his mother had no contact with his father."We didn't talk to my dad for many years, I considered him a stranger," Jacobs said.
Jacobs grew up in the town of Desenzano del Garda in northern Italy, on the shores of Lake Garda. Jacobs played basketball and soccer as a child, later taking up athletics. Though born in the U.S., Jacobs toldJacobs told the newspaper that it was a sports coach who turned him on to the idea of track and field.
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