Romell Glave Wins European 100m Gold as Azu Takes Silver

Romell Glave Wins European 100m Gold as Azu Takes Silver

Romell Glave won European 100m gold in 10.09 seconds at Birmingham's Alexander Stadium today, with training partner Jeremiah Azu crossing the line second in 10.16 to complete a Great Britain 100m one-two in front of the home crowd, BBC Sport reported. Germany's Owen Ansah took bronze after pre-race favorite Lamont Marcell Jacobs of Italy, the two-time defending champion, pulled up with an injury around halfway through the final, according to BBC Sport.

The win extends a two-year arc for Glave that started with his first international podium, a 100m bronze at the 2024 European Championships in Rome, BBC Sport reported. For Azu, the silver improves on the bronze he won at the 2022 European Championships and adds to a résumé that already includes the 2025 world and European indoor 60m titles, plus an Olympic bronze medal listed on his World Athletics profile.

European Athletics Championships 2026 men's 100m results

Glave crossed the line in 10.09 seconds, seven hundredths clear of Azu's 10.16, at Alexander Stadium, BBC Sport reported. Ansah finished third for Germany to complete the podium, according to BBC Sport. No time for Ansah's bronze-medal run appears in the available reporting.

The Romell Glave and Jeremiah Azu 100m results were gold and silver for Great Britain, with Ansah taking bronze for Germany. That leaves the podium as:

• 1st: Romell Glave (GBR), 10.09
• 2nd: Jeremiah Azu (GBR), 10.16
• 3rd: Owen Ansah (GER)

Jacobs, chasing a third straight European title on top of the Olympic gold he won as a surprise champion five years earlier, pulled up with an injury around halfway through the race, according to BBC Sport.

Glave's road to gold: from Rome bronze to a home European 100m title

Glave, 26, made his first international podium two years ago with 100m bronze in Rome, then upgraded that to gold with what BBC Sport called a dominant victory in Birmingham.

That gold followed a domestic breakthrough on the same track. Two months ago, on the same Alexander Stadium surface, Glave won the UK Championships final in 9.98 seconds, a wind-legal mark with a 0.5 m/s reading, ahead of Zharnel Hughes' 10.01, according to World Athletics results. It was Glave's first wind-legal run under 10 seconds, on the same track that would go on to host the European final, World Athletics reported.

That gives Glave's title two data points rather than one: a 9.98 domestic win in June and a 10.09 European gold in August, both on the same track. The times aren't directly comparable given different conditions and stakes, but together they show a runner who arrived at the championships already in form rather than peaking unexpectedly on the day.

Jeremiah Azu's European 100m silver: an established résumé

Azu arrived in Birmingham as the reigning world and European indoor 60m champion from 2025, BBC Sport reported. His World Athletics profile also lists him as an Olympic Games bronze medallist, a European champion, and a European Indoor champion, spanning both outdoor and indoor competition over multiple distances.

Today's 10.16 silver improves on the bronze Azu won in the 100m at the 2022 European Championships, BBC Sport reported. His profile lists wind-legal 100m marks of 9.97 seconds in both 2024 and 2025, each recorded as a national record, according to World Athletics. A faster 9.90-second mark also appears on his profile but is flagged as not legal, meaning it doesn't count toward his official personal best or any record.

Azu's domestic form heading into the championships was actually faster than his time in the European final. At the UK Championships two months ago, he ran 10.03 seconds, 0.13 seconds quicker than his 10.16 in Birmingham, according to World Athletics results. That 10.03 was officially listed jointly with Louie Hinchliffe for third place, though the accompanying World Athletics race report described Hinchliffe as third and Azu as fourth. The available results don't clarify how that tiebreaker was resolved, but either way, Azu was already running inside 10.05 domestically weeks before he stepped onto the European podium.

Read together, Glave's 9.98/10.09 and Azu's 10.03/10.16 tell a similar story: both sprinters ran slower in the European final than they had domestically in June, yet still finished first and second on the day that mattered most for medals.

What Britain's sprint depth shows, and what it doesn't

The UK Championships two months ago produced four British sprinters within hundredths of each other over 100m: Glave in 9.98, Hughes in 10.01, and Azu and Hinchliffe both in 10.03, according to World Athletics results. That clustering suggests a closely matched group heading into the European Championships, though it's worth being precise about what a single domestic meet can and can't establish.

Individual 100m times are one input among several that go into relay selection. Baton-exchange quality, fitness on a given day, and selection policy all factor into who actually runs a British 4x100m final, and none of those are addressed by the sprint times alone. Today's result confirms who took gold and silver over 100m in Birmingham. It doesn't say anything definitive about how the wider group of Glave, Azu, Hughes, and Hinchliffe would perform together in a relay, or whether all four remain available and selected for future rounds.

That's a genuinely open question rather than one this result settles. Anyone following British sprinting has real reason to pay attention to relay selection meetings and upcoming competitions, but the European 100m final itself only answers the individual question: who was fastest in that specific race, on that specific day.

Where things stand

Two results are confirmed and carry no ambiguity. Glave moved from 100m bronze in Rome two years ago to 100m gold in Birmingham today, and Azu moved from 100m bronze at the 2022 European Championships to silver in the same event today, both according to BBC Sport. Those are the medal facts of the day, and they stand regardless of how the rest of the season unfolds.

Two things remain unresolved and worth tracking as the story develops. BBC Sport has not reported a diagnosis or severity update on Jacobs' injury beyond confirming he pulled up around halfway through the final, so his status for the rest of the season is not yet known. And whether Britain's clustered domestic sprint times this year translate into relay selection, availability, or repeat individual medals is a question that future UK Athletics selection decisions and competitions will answer, not one that today's final has already resolved.