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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.
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
Eventually 27-year-old Lyles was crowned victorious, after the American pipped Jamaica’s Kishane Thompson to gold by just five thousandths of a second, winning in 9.79.784 seconds. Drizzles of ...
The world’s fastest man is still the world’s fastest man. ... Lyles ran the race in 9.784 seconds; Kishane Thompson of Jamaica won silver with a time of 9.789 seconds, while the U.S.’s Fred ...
This was the thirtieth time that the men's 100 metres was contested at the Summer Olympics.Interestingly the final contained 6 men who had recorded top-25 all-time records in the 100m, making this final one of the most tightly contested in history, as the difference between the fastest man in the field Fred Kerley (9.76) and the slowest Kenny Bednarek (9.87) was only 0.11 seconds.
After the close finish in the 100 metres between reigning World Champion Noah Lyles and seasonal World Leader Kishane Thompson, won by Lyles by .005, there was excitement for the rematch on the anchor of the 4x100 relay. USA had a tradition of winning the Olympic 4x100.
Lyles, who won Sunday with a time of 9.784 seconds, came out just barely ahead of Jamaica’s Kishane Thompson (who ran in 9.789) and the U.S.’ Fred Kerley (whose time was 9.81).
The man Lyles most feared, Jamaica’s Kishane Thompson, was just as sluggish, reacting in 0.176. Yet Thompson is the fastest man this year for a reason. Yet Thompson is the fastest man this year ...