Italy’s Olympic 100m champion Lamont Marcell Jacobs will have an early recce of the Eugene music for use for the World Athletics Championships while he races the blue riband occasion at a Diamond League meet at the give up of May.

The 27-yr-antique sprinter left Tokyo with a 2nd Olympic gold as a part of Italy’s triumphing 4x100m relay squad.

This season, Jacobs dethroned American Christian Coleman to take gold in the international indoor 60m in Belgrade.

At the May 28 meet in Eugene, Oregon, “I’ll get my bearings for the world champs”, the Corriere dello Sport quoted Jacobs as saying.

“It will be a short trip, three days, the time to build confidence with the track and the US set-up.”

Jacob’s group confirmed to AFP that the 100m in Eugene will be the first he has run given that he raced to a surprise Olympic gold in a European record of nine. Eighty seconds.

First up for Jacobs, however, is a rare day out on May 18 in Savona over 200m, a distance he is most effectively competed over once on account that 2015, when he clocked 20.61sec.