Men’s 100m final results: Noah Lyles wins gold in photo finish

Noah Lyles on Sunday 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:
First-, second- and third-place finishes win the gold, silver and bronze, respectively.
According to World Athletics, it’s the first time in history that eight men have broken 10 seconds in a wind-legal race.