Lyles edges Thompson to mint 100m Olympic gold
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Noah Lyles out-dipped Jamaica’s Kishane Thompson to post a lifetime best effort of 9.79 seconds to win the men’s 100m final at the 2024 Paris Olympic Games on Sunday (August 4).
Lyles breaks a 20-year American gold-less streak since Justin Gatlin in Athens in 2004.
The 2023 World champion, who lost his two opening round races at Stade de France, finished four-hundredths of a second ahead of Thompson (9.79s) for the gold medal.
Thompson ends Jamaica’s eight-year medal drought in the blue-ribbon event since Usain Bolt’s last winning race at the 2016 Rio Olympics in Brazil.
Lyles’ compatriot Fred Kerley secured the bronze in a season’s best 9.81s effort.
African competitors Akani Simbine and Letsile Tebogo posted respective national records to fourth (9.82s) and sixth (9.86s).
Defending Olympic champion Lamont Marcell Jacobs finished fifth (9.85s) while Jamaica’s second finalist Oblique Seville ended eighth (9.91s).
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