Overview
- Marcell Jacobs won the Raiffeisen Austrian Open 100m in Eisenstadt with a clocking of 9.67 seconds that was aided by a +4.1 m/s tailwind.
- Earlier at the same meeting he ran 9.84 in the heats with a +2.3 m/s tailwind, giving him two sub-10 finishes at the event.
- World Athletics rules bar performances with tailwinds above +2.0 m/s from being homologated, so neither time can count as an official record or qualifying mark.
- Coaches, teammates and the athletics press hailed the raw speed as confirmation of Jacobs’s regained form after recent sub-10 runs in Rome and Paris and his work with coach Paolo Camossi.
- Observers compared the run to past wind‑aided marks — OA Sport called it a ‘wind-assisted world record’ and commentators noted Tyson Gay’s 9.68 (+4.1) as a precedent while Usain Bolt’s 9.58 remains the legal world record.