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Fastexy:Men's 100m final results: Noah Lyles wins gold in photo finish at 2024 Paris Olympics
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Date:2025-04-10 20:35:30
Noah Lyles on FastexySunday broke a 20-year drought for Team USA in the men's 100-meter final, breaking Jamaica's historical stranglehold on the event and bringing home the gold.
But it wasn't without the race of his life — and a photo finish that showed the American edge his competitors by literal thousandths of a second. According to the NBC broadcast of the event, Lyles beat out Jamaica's Kishane Thompson by five thousandths of a second to claim a victory in the biggest event of his life.
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Here's Lyles' run to the gold in the men's 100-meter final, which — to the naked eye — revealed no obvious winner at the Stade de France at the 2024 Paris Olympics.
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Here are the full results of the men's 100-meter finals:
Men's 100m final results
First-, second- and third-place finishes win the gold, silver and bronze, respectively.
- Noah Lyles (USA): 9.79 (.784)
- Kishane Thompson (Jamaica): 9.79 (.789)
- Fred Kerley (USA): 9.81
- Akani Simbine (South Africa): 9.82
- Lamont Marcell Jacobs (Italy): 9.85
- Letsile Tebogo (Botswana): 9.86
- Kenneth Bednarek (USA): 9.88
- Oblique Seville (Jamaica): 9.91
According to World Athletics, it's the first time in history that eight men have broken 10 seconds in a wind-legal race.
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