Imranur 'does not start' as Marcell Jacobs takes 60m crown
Having created a piece of history by reaching the semifinals of World Indoor Athletics Championship, Bangladesh's Imranur Rahman exited from the semifinals with disappointment as he failed to start the race.
The England-based sprinter, who set a personal best of 6.4 seconds to get into the semifinals of 60m sprint in Belgrade on Saturday morning, did not start the semifinal race as he was confused with the status of the race – whether it was a false start – and ended up being labelled 'did not finish'.
There ended Imranur's journey – the first from Bangladesh to participate in the World Indoor Athletics Championship, but he will have more on his place – the Asian Games, the Commonwealth Games and much more where he will represent Bangladesh as the fastest man. The 29-year-old had recently participated in Bangladesh's national athletics championship for the first time and broke a 21-year-old record in 100m sprint.
Meanwhile, Marcell Jacobs of Italy, who had won the 100m sprint gold in Tokyo Olympics last year, broke the European record to win the 60m crown in Belgrade.
The 27-year-old did it in dramatic style, drawing on all of the strength, speed endurance, and killer long jumper's stride that took him to surprise Olympic gold in Tokyo in 9.80 to catch the US pair Christian Coleman and Marvin Bracy and snatch victory on the dip by the slenderest of margins in a European record of 6.41.
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