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Kishane Thompson (born 17 July 2001) is a Jamaican track and field athlete who competes as a sprinter. [2] He won the silver medal at the 2024 Summer Olympics in the 100 metres event. Career
He won the 100 m at the 2024 Olympics with a new personal best of 9.784, giving a 0.005 second margin over Jamaica's Kishane Thompson (9.789). It was the first US victory in the event since 2004. [55] The race was so close that Leigh Diffey calling the race for American NBC Sports prematurely declared Thompson the winner. [56] [57]
American sprinter Noah Lyles won the gold in the 100 meters at the Paris Olympics in a photo finish, edging out Jamaican Kishane Thompson for gold and taking the title of the world's fastest man.
Lyles secured the U.S.'s first gold medal in the men’s 100 in 20 years, streaking across the finish line in a personal-best 9.79 seconds. Jamaica’s Kishane Thompson finished second, an ...
The words "photo finish" have never been more applicable than to the end of the men's 100-meter race with the United States' Noah Lyles and Jamaica's Kishane Thompson.
Elaine Sandra-Lee Thompson-Herah (born 28 June 1992) [3] [4] is a Jamaican sprinter who competes in the 60 metres, 100 metres and 200 metres. Regarded as one of the greatest sprinters of all time, she is a five-time Olympic champion, the fastest woman alive in the 100 m, and the third fastest ever in the 200 m.
In 1939, Gus and Emma Thompson, a Black entrepreneurial couple, agreed to rent and eventually sell the house they owned to the Dongs, a Chinese American family.
She had four more children with him. When Lange met Thompson, Hill and Thompson's sons were out looking to get their car fixed. In 1958, 22 years after the photograph had been published, Thompson saw Migrant Mother in a magazine and wrote to the magazine asking them to recall all unsold magazines to protect her and her family's rights. As the ...