{"id":590396,"date":"2026-08-11T23:08:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T23:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/590396\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T23:08:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T23:08:09","slug":"european-athletics-championships-2026-gbs-romell-glave-and-jeremiah-azu-achieve-superb-100m-one-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/590396\/","title":{"rendered":"European Athletics Championships 2026: GB&#8217;s Romell Glave and Jeremiah Azu achieve superb 100m one-two"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Glave has made significant progress this season, breaking the 10-second barrier for the first time in legal conditions to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/athletics\/articles\/c9d2g083943o\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">win his first British title<\/a> in June. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He has run sub-10 on six separate occasions, in all conditions, this season &#8211; including when he defeated the in-form Jacobs, a surprise Olympic champion five years ago, on his home turf in Italy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">That confidence was evident as Glave dominated his semi-final earlier in the evening, and he executed to perfection when it mattered most.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A talented junior, Glave was the fastest 17-year-old in the world in 2017 after he recorded a time of 10.21.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">His progress has been disrupted by injury setbacks since, including a fracture in his back.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But, able to remain consistent with his training this year, Glave captured the gold medal he believed he was capable of winning two years ago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The foundations of Glave&#8217;s recent progress has come from a focus on sharpening the first 40 metres of his race.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After hitting the front by the 30-metre mark, he never looked back &#8211; and continued running far beyond the finish line in celebration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Glave has made significant progress this season, breaking the 10-second barrier for the first time in legal conditions&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":590397,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-590396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=590396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590396\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/590397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=590396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=590396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=590396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}