Lamont Marcell Jacobs Height, Age, Girlfriend, Wife, Family, Biography & More

Bio/Wiki
Full Name	Lamont Marcell Jacobs, Jr [1]NBC Olympics
Nickname	Crazy Long Jumper [2]Lamont Marcell Jacobs - Instagram
Profession(s)	Track and Field Sprinter and Long Jumper
Famous For	Setting the new European record in athletics in 100 meters event timed at 9.80 seconds at the 2020 Summer Olympics
Physical Stats & More
Height [3]Federazione Italiana di Atletica Leggera - Lamont Marcell Jacobs	in centimeters- 186 cm in meters- 1.86 m in feet inches- 6’ 1”
Weight [4]Federazione Italiana di Atletica Leggera - Lamont Marcell Jacobs	in kilograms- 84 kg in pounds- 185.2 lbs
Eye Color	Dark Brown
Hair Color	Black
Long Jump
Debut	International- 2016 Mediterranean Athletics U23 Championships (Tunis)
Coach/Trainer	• Gianni Lombardi • Paolo Camossi
Team(s)	National- Italy Domestic- GS Fiamme Oro
Progression	Outdoor • 7.17 metres – Saronno, Italy, on July 10, 2011 • 7.29 metres – Rieti, Italy, on October 7, 2012 • 7.68 metres – Vincenza, Italy, on September 29, 2013 • 7.95 metres – Tunis, Italy, on June 4, 2016 Indoor • 6.96 metres – Ancona, Italy, on February 13, 2011 • 7.27 metres – Modena, Italy, on March 11, 2012 • 7.77 metres – Ancona, Italy, on February 23, 2013 • 7.32 metres – Lucca, Italy, on January 26, 2014 • 8.03 metres – Padova, Italy, on February 22, 2015 • 8.07 metres – Ancona, Italy, on February 04, 2017 • 8.05 metres – Gallur, Madrid, on February 08, 2019
Medal	• Gold at the 2016 Mediterranean Athletics U23 Championships (Tunis)
Sprint
Debut	International- 2018 European Athletics Championships - Men's 100 meters
Coach/Trainer	• Gianni Lombardi • Paolo Camossi
Team(s)	National- Italy Domestic- GS Fiamme Oro
Progression	Outdoor - 100 Metres • 11.9 seconds – Chiari, Italy, on May 20, 2011 • 10.68 seconds – Campi Bisenzio, Italy, on May 19, 2012 • 11.9 seconds – Chiasso, Switzerland, on August 19, 2013 • 10.53 seconds – Gavardo, Italy, on May 18, 2014 • 10.23 seconds – Savona, Italy, on May 25, 2016 • 10.82 seconds – Trieste, Italy, on June 30, 2017 • 10.08 seconds – Savona, Italy, on May 23, 2018 • 10.03 seconds – Padova, Italy, on July 16, 2019 • 10.10 seconds – Trieste, Italy, on August 01, 2020 • 9.80 seconds – Tokyo, Japan, on August 01, 2021 Outdoor - 200 Metres • 21.66 seconds – Nembro, Italy, on June 20, 2012 • 21.15 seconds – Campi Bisenzio, Torino, Italy, on June 07, 2014 • 21.08 seconds – Campi Bisenzio, Italy, on May 10, 2015 • 20.61 seconds – Campi Bisenzio, Italy, on May 06, 2018 Outdoor - 4x100 Metres Relay • 41.32 seconds – Vicenza, Italy, on September 28, 2013 • 38.11 seconds – Khalifa International Stadium, Doha, Qatar, on October 04, 2019 • 37.50 seconds – Olympic Stadium, Japan, on August 06, 2021 Indoor - 60 Metres • 7.10 seconds – Ancona, Italy, on February 19, 2012 • 7.00 seconds – Modena, Italy, on January 26, 2013 • 6.96 seconds – Bergamo, Italy, on January 19, 2014 • 6.69 seconds – Udine, Italy, on January 22, 2017 • 6.63 seconds – Stade Couvert Régional, Liévin, France, on February 19, 2020 • 6.47 seconds – Arena Toruń, Poland, on March 06, 2021 Indoor - 200 Metres • 22.45 seconds – Ancona, Italy, on February 2, 2013
Medal(s)	• Gold at the 2021 European Athletics Indoor Championships (Toruń) – Men's 60 metres • Silver at the 2021 World Athletics Relays (Chorzów) – 4×100 m relay • Silver at the 2021 BAUHAUS-galan (Stockholm) – Men's 100 metres • Bronze at the 2021 Herculis (Monte Carlo) – Men's 100 metres • Gold at the 2020 Summer Olympics (Tokyo) – Men's 100 metres • Gold at the 2020 Summer Olympics (Tokyo) – Men's 4 × 100 metres relay • Silver at the 2019 European Athletics Team Championships Super League (Bydgoszcz) – 100 metres
Personal Life
Date of Birth	September 26, 1994 (Monday)
Age (as of 2021)	27 Years
Birthplace	El Paso, Texas, United States
Zodiac sign	Libra
Nationality	Italian-American
Hometown	Desenzano del Garda, Province of Brescia, Lombardy, Italy
Religion	Christianity [5]Instagram - Marcell Jacobs
Ethnicity/Race	From Father's Side- African-American [6]The New York Times - Archive From Mother's Side- Italian [7]The New York Times - Archive
Food Habit	Non-Vegetarian
Tattoo(s)	• 'Famiglia. Dove nasce la vita e l'amore non ha mai fine,' which translates to 'Family. Where life is born and love never ends,' on his left shoulder Rose on his chest • The quote (by Charlie Chaplin) 'What is really good is to fight with determination, embrace life and live it with passion! Lose your battles with class and dare to win because the world belongs to those who dare' in Italian on his right pec • The quote 'Il vero amore non significa essere inseparabili; significa essere separati e nulla cambia' (Trans. True love doesn’t mean being inseparable; it means being separated and nothing changes) on the right side of his stomach • Compass on the center of his stomach • Jeremy (name of his elder son) over the world map on his left pect • Meghan (name of his daughter) on his inner right bicep • Anthony (name of his younger son) on his lower abdomen • Tiger (representing strength, passion, and beauty) on his back • 1972 on his left shoulder • Anchor on the backside of his upper right arm • 'Carpe Diem'(meaning seize the day) on the left side of his stomach • Cross with the word 'Believe' on his right shoulder • Crazy Long Jumper across his collarbones • Medusa on his right upper arm • Colosseum on his right forearm • 'VI-VI' on the backside of his right wrist • Roman numerals 'XIV XII MMXIV' (14 12 2014) on his neckline • Roman numerals 'XXV-IX-MMIII' (25-09-2003) on his left shoulder blade • Roman numerals 'XVI-V-MMII' (16-5-2002) on his right shoulder blade • A tattoo on his left leg • Some words below his left pec
Controversy	In 2021, after Marcell's gold-medal win at the 2020 Tokyo Olympic finals in the Men's 100 meters event, he was suspected of doping insinuations. He was targeted after a British daily newspaper called The Times wrote about Giacomo Spazzini being under police investigation for his alleged involvement in the illegal distribution of anabolic steroids. Soon, after the news caught media attention, Marcell cut all ties with Spazzini. Jacob's manager announced that Jacob had no involvement in the matter as he had only worked with the medical professionals at Spazsini's sports centre, and Spazzini was never Jacob's nutritionist. He further said (Marcell and Spazzini) that they were only friends. While talking about the allegations in an interview, Marcell Jacobs said, "It haven’t touched me because I know all the sacrifices and setbacks I took to get to this moment, and I want to enjoy it 100 percent." In the same interview, when Jacobs was asked about his views on British sprinter C.J. Ujah's (silver-medal winner in the 4x100m relay event at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics) suspension over an alleged anti-doping breach, he said, [8]The Hindu - Archive "It makes me smile a little. Because a week ago they said so many things about me that were not true, and they have the relay runner with a positive result in their own backyard."
Relationships & More
Marital Status	Married
Affairs/Girlfriends	• He was in a relationship with the woman when he was nineteen years old. • Nicole Daza (model and social media influencer)
Marriage Year	2018
Family
Wife/Spouse	Nicole Daza
Children	Son(s)- Jeremy (born in 2013) (from his previous relation at age 19), Anthony (born in 2019) (from Nicole Daza) Daughter- Meghan (born in 2021) (from Nicole Daza)
Parents	Father- Lamont Marcell Jacobs Sr. (former US Army soldier) Mother- Viviana Masini (owner of Hotel Florence, Italy)
Favorites
Track and Field Athlete	Andrew Howe
Comic	Charlie Chaplin
Sport(s)	Basketball, Formula 1
Racing Driver	Lewis Hamilton
Style Quotient
Car Collection	• Chevrolet • Mercedes-Benz

Some Lesser Known Facts About Lamont Marcell Jacobs

• Does Lamont Marcell Jacobs drink alcohol?: Yes ^[9]Lamont Marcell Jacobs – Instagram

• Lamont Marcell Jacobs is an Italian-American sprinter and long jumper. He is known for winning a gold medal in the 100 meters event at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, establishing the European record in athletics in 100 meters event.

• His father is a former US Army soldier, and his parents met when his father (at age 18) was serving at Caserma Ederle (a military complex) in Vicenza, Italy. His mother was sixteen years old at that time. After marrying in Italy, his parents moved to El Paso, Texas. Jacobs was born three years after their marriage.

• When he was three weeks old, his father was transferred to South Korea. Because his mother could not travel so much, she decided to return to Italy. His mother shifted to Desenzano del Garda in Lombardy, Italy, where Jacobs spent his childhood. When Jacobs turned six months old, his parents filed for a divorce.
  

  Lamont Marcell Jacobs as a child

• Jacobs was raised solely by his mother. While talking about their relationship in an interview, Jacobs’ mother said,
  

  Ours is a great love. I am his mother, sister and friend, as well as his great sponsor. I accompanied him to the races every Sunday, encouraged him to give more, remaining humble. The time to get noticed has finally come.”

  

  Lamont Marcell Jacobs with his mother

• He was born in the United States, and he obtained his Italian citizenship later in life. He likes to introduce himself as an Italian. In an interview, he said,
  

  Italian: Di americano ho solo le fibre muscolari, mi sento italiano al 100%”
  Translation: Only my muscle fibers are American, I’m 100% an Italian.”

• Since childhood, Marcell Jacobs was alienated from his father. While he was training for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, his mental coach, Nicoletta Romanazzi, suggested he start talking to his father again. Nicoletta claimed that it would help him gain peace of mind and be motivated to win at the Olympics. While talking about his experience in an interview, he said,
  

  I considered him a stranger, he looked for me on Facebook and I didn’t answer. Fortunately, recently, also thanks to the work with my mental coach, a relationship has been recreated. And I’ll go and see him in the U.S.”

• Jacobs grew up as an athletic child. He did skating and swimming, played basketball and football, and loved driving bicycles and mopeds.

• In an interview, Jacob’s mother said that she always urged him to follow sports as he was full of energy, even at night. To get him to sleep, she had to tire him out.

• He began playing basketball due to his father who was once a basketball player. Later, he became interested in football and trained in the sport under his school’s sports coach Adriano Bertazzi. Bertazzi began observing Jacobs’ speed and suggested he try sprinting. According to Jacobs, Bertazzi had told him,
  

  Italian: Visto che non hai mai preso la palla ma hai corso veloce, perché non provi un altro sport come l’atletica?”
  Translation: Since you’ve never caught the ball but run fast, why don’t you try athletics?”

• Soon, he started training under Gianni Lombardi in Desenzano del Garda. Gianni is the director of the World Athletics Challenge – Combined Events. Training under Gianni began highlighting his talent in sprinting. When he was ten, he began competing in sprinting events. He discovered the long jump later, not until 2011.

• He was commissioned as a state police officer in the Province of Brescia, Italy, on October 7, 2013.
  

  Lamont Marcell Jacobs being welcomed by police officers in his division after he returned with gold medals at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics

• In September 2015, he started training under Paolo Camossi, an Italian triple jumper known for winning a gold medal at the 2001 World Indoor Championships. In the beginning, Jacobs was trained in Gorizia, and then in late 2018, he was trained in Rome. In an interview, he talked about Paolo and said,
  

  I achieved good results during the three years I spent in Gorizia, but I felt I needed more regular medical and physiotherapy support. Rome offered everything I needed, so it was the right choice for me. I am really grateful that Paolo Camossi decided to coach me. He changed his life completely to follow me.”

• Marcell Jacobs has his home in Rome, where he lives with his wife and children (Anthony and Meghan).

• In 2016, he won in the long jump event at the Mediterranean Athletics U23 Championships, which was held in Tunis, by jumping 7.95 meters. This was his first professional tournament.
  

  An Instagram post of Marcell Jacobs in which he is talking about his first race at the Mediterranean Athletics U23 Championships

• In 2016, he participated in many long jump events like the U23 Italian Athletics Championships (Brixen; where he won with a jump of 8.48 meters), Italian Athletics Championships (Rieti, Italy; where he won with a jump of 7.68m), and European Athletics Championships (Amsterdam; where he was placed 11th with a jump of 7.59 m).

• The same year, he gave his best performance in the long jump event at the Italian U23 Championships, where he jumped 8.48 meters, a jump that could have become a national record only if the tailwind was not 2.8 m/s (which was 0.8 m/s above the allowable maximum for any record performance).

• Jacobs failed to participate in the Olympic Games 2016, which was held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, due to a hamstring injury.

• At the Italian Athletics Indoor Championships in 2017, Jacobs won with a jump of 8.06 meters in the long jump event.

• The same year, at the end of the Senior Indoor season organized by IAAF (now World Athletics), he was ranked tenth with the personal best of 8.07 meters jump.

• Next, he competed at the 2017 European Athletics Indoor Championships and lost in the quarterfinals with a jump of 7.70 meters. The tournament took place in Belgrade.
  

  Lamont Marcell Jacobs at the 2017 European Athletics Indoor Championships

• In 2018, in the Men’s 100 m event, at the European Athletics Championships, he lost in the semi-finals timed at 10.28 seconds.

• In the long jump event of the 2019 European Athletics Indoor Championships held in Glasgow, he faced defeat in the quarterfinals again.

• The same year, he resolved to keep his sole focus on sprinting, citing frequent injuries during long jumping as a cause of leaving long jumping.

• In the 2019 IAAF World Relays, held in Yokohama, Japan, he was a part of the Italian team competing in the Men’s 4 × 100 meters relay event. However, he did not complete the race.

• In July 2019, he became one of the three fastest Italians in history when he lowered his personal best of 100m to 10.03 seconds.

• In 2019, at the European Athletics Team Championships Super League, which took place in Bydgoszcz, he lost at the semi-finals in the 100 meters at the record of 10.39 seconds.

• The same year, he competed in World Athletics Championships (Doha), where he went on to reach the semi-finals in the 100 meters and 4 × 100 meters relay events. He completed the 100 meters event in 10.20 seconds and contributed to the 38.11 seconds record of the Italian team in the 4 × 100 m relay event.
  

  Lamont Marcell Jacobs as a part of the Italian team at the 2019 World Athletics Championships

• He also participated in various athletic meets in the 100 meters event like the 2020 International Triveneto meeting, Trieste, where he won timed at 10.10 seconds.
  

  Lamont Marcell Jacobs during 2020 International Triveneto meeting

• At the 2021 International Savona meeting, which was held on May 13, he won the 100 meters event timed at 9.95 seconds, making the new Italian record by becoming the 150th person in history and the second Italian to break the 10-second barrier.

• At the 2021 BAUHAUS-galan, he participated in the 100 meters event and won second place timed at 10.05 seconds. BAUHAUS-galan is an annual international meet held at the Olympic Stadium in Stockholm; the event is a part of the Diamond League circuit.
  

  Lamont Marcell Jacobs at the 2021 BAUHAUS-galan

• At the 2021 Herculis, he competed in the 100 meters event and won, completing the event in 9.99 seconds. Herculis is an annual track and field meet held in Monaco, and it is a part of the Diamond League.

• At the Diamond League tournaments held in Rome (Italy) in 2018, Rome (Italy) in 2020, Monaco in 2021, Stockholm (Sweden) in 2021, he participated in the 100 meters event and ranked seventh (timed at 10.19), fourth (timed at 10.11), third (timed at 9.99), and second (timed at 10.05), respectively.

• In Ancona, at the 2021 Italian Athletics Indoor Championships, he competed in the 60 meters event and won the event timed at 6.55 seconds.

• At the 2021 European Athletics Indoor Championships, which took place in Torun, Poland, Jacobs completed the 60 meters event at 6.59 seconds, which became the new national and worldwide season’s best record, and won.
  

  Lamont Marcell Jacobs during the 2021 European Athletics Indoor Championships

• In the 4×100 m relay event at the 2021 World Athletics Relays, which happened in Chorzów, he was part of the Italian team, which came second with a contributed time of 39.21 seconds.

• At the Italian Athletics Championships, he won four times in a row in the 100 meters event. In the 2018 edition (Pescara, Italy), he won timed at 10.24 seconds. In the 2019 edition of the tournament (Brixen Italy), he won timed at 10.10 seconds. In its 2020 edition (Padua, Italy), he won timed at 10.10 seconds into the headwind of +3.3 m/s. In its 2020 edition (Rovereto, Italy), he won timed at 10.01 seconds into the headwind of -1.0 m/s.

• At the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, which was held in Tokyo, Japan, in 2021 (postponed due to worldwide COVID-19 pandemic), he competed in the 100 meters and 4 × 100 meters relay events. In the 100m event semi-finals, Jacobs won third place after completing the event in 9.84 seconds, which became the European record in the 100 m event; he equaled the 1996 Summer Olympics 100m champion Donovan Bailey. In 100 meters event finals, Jacobs won timed at 9.80 seconds, which became his second improvement in the European records, equaling with the Jamaican former sprint athlete Steve Mullings (#11 of all times in the world). With his win, he brought home Italy’s first gold in the 100 m event.
  

  Lamont Marcell Jacobs celebrating his victory after winning the 100m event at the 2020 Summer Olympics

• In the 4×100 m relay event at the 2020 Olympics, the Italian team, including Lorenzo Patta, Fausto Desalu, Filippo Tortu, and Jacobs, won the event with its total run time of 37.50 seconds, which set the new Italian record in 100 m event; Jacobs ran the second leg. The Italian team’s victory marked Italy’s first win and medal earned in 73 years in the 4×100 m relay event.
  

  Lamont Marcell Jacobs celebrating his victory with other members of the Italian team in the 4×100 m relay event at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics

• The Italian National Olympic Committee chose Marcell Jacobs as Italy’s flag bearer in the closing ceremony of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics due to his outstanding achievements.
  

  Lamont Marcell Jacobs bearing Italy’s flag during the 2020 Summer Olympics closing ceremony

• Before the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, Stefano Tilli (1983 European indoor 60m champion-turned news anchor) tipped Jacobs to break the 10-second barrier for 100m by at least equaling Filippo Tortu (the previous Italian record holder in 100m sprint) if not break his record of 9.99 seconds. In an interview, Jacobs talked about Filippo and said,
  

  Filippo is a very good friend. Our rivalry is great for Italian athletics. We push each other and this helps us run faster.”

• After his win at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, Jacobs, in a social media post in August 2021, announced his sabbatical till 2022. He wrote,
  

  It’s not a simple decision. I am the first to want to compete every week, but you get to a certain point in which you realise that it does not end here, in the sense that this is only a great starting point.”

• In his spare time, he likes to watch Basketball matches and Formula 1 races.

• Jacobs’ mother coached his idol Andrew Howe (Italian long jumper and sprinter) while Jacobs’ was still a baby and his father had left the family.

• Marcell follows the philosophy,
  

  If you insist and resist, you reach and conquer.”

• His Instagram profile contains the quote,
  

  Italian: Se lo puoi sognare, lo puoi fare!
  Translate: If you can dream it , you can do it”

• Jacobs and the Italian footballer Francesco Totti are good friends. They are frequently seen hanging out with each other.
  

  Lamont Marcell Jacobs and his wife with Francesco Totti and his wife