Olympics 2024: Noah Lyles wins men’s 100m final. In the Olympic 100-meter final held in Paris on Sunday, American Noah Lyles won gold.
Jamaican Kishane Thompson won silver, while Fred Kerley, another American, took home bronze.
Since Justin Gatlin’s victory in the 2004 Athens Games, Lyles is the first American to win the competition.
With a new personal best time of 9.79 seconds, he defeated Thompson by five-thousandths of a second after starting slowly and picking up speed toward the end.
“It’s the one I wanted, it’s the hard battle, it’s the amazing opponents,” he stated. Olympic 100-meter final closest in recent history
It took a photo finish to seal his triumph; fellow American Kerley finished in ninth place with a 9.81 score.
That was a thousandth of a second quicker than South African finisher Akani Simbini, who established a new record with a time of 9.82 seconds.
Due to his heavy load, the Italian champion Lamont Marcell Jacobs finished fifth in 9.85 seconds. But the race was so good that Oblique Seville of Jamaica, who finished in eighth position, still managed to clock in at 9.91 seconds. Olympics 2024: Noah Lyles wins men’s 100m final
“Everybody came prepared for the fight and I wanted to prove that I’m the man among all of them. I’m the wolf among wolves,” Lyles stated.
In a wind-legal 100-meter race, it was the first time eight men had beaten the 10-second mark.
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