Noah Lyles wins 100m final live updates (2024)

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Luke Brown·Managing Editor, Global Live

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Noah Lyles wins men’s 100m final

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Noah Lyles beat Jamaica’s Kishane Thompson by five-thousandths of a second to win Olympic gold in a stunning men’s 100m final.

The American crossed the line in 9.79 seconds — the exact same time that appeared on the board for Thompson.

Both men waited in disbelief after crossing the line before Lyles was confirmed as the winner, with his compatriot Fred Kerley claiming bronze in 9.81.

The race saw the fastest times ever for the 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th-place finishers. And Lyles ran faster than he ever has ran before to beat them all.

“I hope you guys like Noah,” he grinned in an interview with the BBC after his victory. “Because I got a lot more coming!” Lyles will return to the track tomorrow for the 200m heats.

Yaroslava Mahuchikh won gold in the women’s high jump and Canada’s Ethan Katzberg won the men’s hammer throw final.

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August 4, 2024 at 5:03 PM EDTDavid Aldridge·Senior Columnist, NBA

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Noah Lyles knew this was going to be a close race

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Noah Lyles has said he thought Kishane Thompson won at the tape. His coach, Ralph Mann, the 1972 silver medalist in the 400 hurdles, told him before the meet that this was going to be close. Lyles held his fingers less than an inch apart. “He told me, ‘this is what the distance between first and second is going to be.’ I can’t believe how right he was.”

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August 4, 2024 at 4:45 PM EDTLuke Brown·Managing Editor, Global Live

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Today’s full track and field results

Three medals for Ukraine and two for the United States.

Women’s high jump

  • Gold: Yaroslava Mahuckikh (Ukraine)
  • Silver: Nicola Olyslagers (Australia)
  • Bronze: Iryna Gerashchenko (Ukraine) and Eleanor Patterson (Australia)

Men’s hammer throw

  • Gold: Ethan Katzberg (Canada)
  • Silver: Bence Halasz (Hungary)
  • Bronze: Mykhalo Kokhan (Ukraine)

Men’s 100m final

  • Gold: Noah Lyles (United States)
  • Silver: Kishane Thompson (Jamaica)
  • Bronze: Fred Kerley (United States)
August 4, 2024 at 4:33 PM EDTLuke Brown·Managing Editor, Global Live

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Noah Lyles: ‘I came with the aggression’

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Noah Lyles, the fastest man in the world, has just briefly interrupted his celebrations to talk to the BBC:

💬 “You couldn't have asked for a bigger moment. I had to take every round as it was and I was a little upset after the first round so I came with the aggression and after I ran that 83 and I was done with the aggression. My sports therapist told me you need to let go, you're holding on. Let go and release it.

“I hope you guys like Noah because I got a lot more coming!”

August 4, 2024 at 4:30 PM EDTLiam Tharme

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Noah Lyles’ start won him that final

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Based on below graphic, which splits the race into 10m segments, Noah Lyles went through 60m in 6.44. His PB, from USA indoors this year, was 6.43. It might not look like it, as he was last until 50m, but that start won him the race. He’s got everyone beat from halfway onwards, but needed to improve his start to put him in a position where he could use that top-end speed to chase others down.

Distilling three years of work into tenths and hundredths of seconds feels cruel but that’s how the 100m works. He now has a genuine shot at the 100/200 double.

August 4, 2024 at 4:23 PM EDTLuke Brown·Managing Editor, Global Live

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Somebody is enjoying themselves

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Good luck getting Noah Lyles to leave the Stade de France this evening.

August 4, 2024 at 4:21 PM EDTLuke Brown·Managing Editor, Global Live

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Men’s 100m final: Complete result

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  1. Noah Lyles, United States (9.784 secs) (PB)
  2. Kishane Thompson, Jamaica (9.789 secs)
  3. Fred Kerley, United States (9.81 secs) (SB)
  4. Akani Simbine, South Africa (9.82 secs) (NR)
  5. Marcell Jacobs, Italy (9.85 secs) (SB)
  6. Letsile Tebogo, Botswana (9.86 secs) (NR)
  7. Kenneth Bednarek, United States (9.88 secs)
  8. Oblique Seville, Jamaica (9.91 secs)

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August 4, 2024 at 4:18 PM EDTMark Puleo·Staff Editor, News

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A superb performance from Fred Kerley

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Forgotten in the madness of Noah Lyles’ victory is that Fred Kerley finished third to nab his second Olympic medal with a 9.81.

Oblique Seville, who beat Lyles just two hours earlier, finished last in the final with a 9.91.

August 4, 2024 at 4:13 PM EDTLiam Tharme

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Analysis of Noah Lyles’ stunning race

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I’ve done the math quickly but only with my eyes: Noah Lyles took 44 steps from the blocks to the line. Kishane Thompson took 45. That one extra step is the difference. Lyles opened his stride up better than anyone else and clawed back the space that others created from the start. It’s partly why Thompson and others started to decelerate quicker, because they had maxed out sooner and then started to fatigue and overcompensate.

There’s a great line from, I believe, Stephen Francis of MVP track club, who coaches Thompson. He used to talk about looking at the bottom lip of an athlete during a sprint to work out how relaxed they were (or not). If the lip was wobbling, they weren’t too stiff.

August 4, 2024 at 4:11 PM EDTBen Burrows

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A historic race in every sense of the word

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That race saw world-record times for 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th-place finishes. And Noah Lyles ran faster than he ever has run before to beat them all.

August 4, 2024 at 4:10 PM EDTMark Puleo·Staff Editor, News

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The closest men’s 100m final since 1980

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That was the first finish to the thousandth since 1980, when Britain’s Allan Wells squeaked past Silvio Leonard of Cuba.

Wells won with a time of 10.25 seconds.

August 4, 2024 at 4:07 PM EDTMark Puleo·Staff Editor, News

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‘If it had been the 99.99 meter dash, he doesn’t take it’

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The scoreboard reads Noah Lyles and Kishane Thompson both ran 9.79, but Lyles had one more stride and a lean for the history books. It took the field a minute to know who won, but Lyles will savor that moment of a lifetime.

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August 4, 2024 at 4:05 PM EDTLiam Tharme

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How Lyles pipped Thompson to the post

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Noah Lyles won it by just five-thousandths of a second. Kishane Thompson was leading for about 98m of that, but he tightened up while Lyles stayed loose, and he took it on the dip.

August 4, 2024 at 4:01 PM EDTDavid Aldridge·Senior Columnist, NBA

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He waited. We all waited

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He didn’t know for several seconds. No one did. The top five spots in the men’s 100m final read PHOTO. So Noah Lyles put an arm around Jamaica’s Kishane Thompson, who he spent almost 100 meters chasing down after a bad start. And waited. And waited. And then…

1 USA LYLES Noah 9.79.

August 4, 2024 at 3:59 PM EDTMark Puleo·Staff Editor, News

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Noah Lyles is the fastest human alive

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Crown that man, Noah Lyles is the fastest human alive. The brash American made good on the prodigious hype he built himself, and will sprint out of Paris with the only medal befitting his aura: a gold one.

Years of a rollercoaster career has reached its pinnacle, and Lyles will be remembered forever. Team USA has its first 100-meter champion in 20 years.

By five-thousands of a second, Lyles eked by Kishane Thompson to win the gold by a whisker. And he will be more than happy to let you hear about it.

August 4, 2024 at 3:57 PM EDTLuke Brown·Managing Editor, Global Live

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Noah Lyles wins by five-thousandths of a second

Noah Lyles wins the men’s 100m final in a time of 9.79.

Jamaica’s Kishane Thompson is second with an identical time on the clock. But he was five-thousandths of a second behind. Five-thousandths of a second.

Fred Kerley is in third.

What a sensational result for the United States!

August 4, 2024 at 3:56 PM EDTLuke Brown·Managing Editor, Global Live

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Noah Lyles wins the men’s 100m final

Noah Lyles is the Olympic champion. He is the fastest man in the world. My word.

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August 4, 2024 at 3:55 PM EDTLuke Brown·Managing Editor, Global Live

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It’s a photo finish

That was so close between Kishane Thompson and Noah Lyles.

August 4, 2024 at 3:52 PM EDTLuke Brown·Managing Editor, Global Live

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Enjoy one of the greatest spectacles in sports, folks

I’d love to provide you all with second-by-second coverage of this race but my internet provider isn’t really up to it. So I suppose I shall see you all on the other side. Enjoy!

August 4, 2024 at 3:50 PM EDTSam Amick·Senior Writer in Paris

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The lanes for today’s 100m final

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I've been recruited by one of those aforementioned experts, the great Marcus Thompson (who is sitting next to me), to share the lane assignments for the 100-meter men's final that's forthcoming...

  • Lane 2: Kenneth Bednarek, USA
  • Lane 3: Fred Kerley, USA
  • Lane 4: Kishane Thompson, Jamaica
  • Lane 5: Akani Simbine, South Africa
  • Lane 6: Oblique Seville, Jamaica
  • Lane 7: Noah Lyles, USA
  • Lane 8: Letsile Tebogo, Botswana
  • Lane 9: Marcell Lamont Jacobs, Italy
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FAQs

How did Noah Lyles win the 100m final? ›

Lyles crosses the finish line ahead of Jamaica's Kishane Thompson in the men's 100m final on Sunday night at Stade de France in Saint-Denis, north of Paris. Computers show Lyles leaned forward to cross the line five-thousands of a second faster than Thompson.

How fast did Noah Lyles run in mph? ›

Noah Lyles reached a top speed of 27.09 mph (or 43.6 km/h) for his 9.79-second run that won the gold medal at the 2024 Olympic Games. This was just five hundredths of a second faster than Thompson's time.

How much did Noah Lyles win by? ›

With a personal-best 9.784-second time that edged him past a world-class field full of elite sprinters, Lyles walked away with his first Olympic gold medal in the 100-meter final. He earned the victory by beating the man with the world's fastest time this year, Jamaica's Kishane Thompson, by 0.005 of a second.

Who holds the fastest 100m? ›

The fastest man in the world: Usain Bolt

His record of 9.58 seconds in the 100 meters showcases his physical prowess and impeccable technique, cementing him as the fastest man in history.

Who is the most decorated 100m sprinter? ›

Olympic and World Champion Justin Gatlin has eight global championship 100m medals (three Olympic and five World Championship), making him the most decorated 100m sprinter of all time.

Who is faster, Noah Lyles or Usain Bolt? ›

Noah Lyles became the “world's fastest man” when he won the 100 meters at the Paris Olympics on Sunday. But the American sprinter's time of 9.79 seconds fell short of the world record of 9.58 set by Usain Bolt of Jamaica 15 years ago. Lyles will have another shot at Bolt when he competes in the 200 final on Thursday.

Who can run 27 mph? ›

In 2011 Belgian scientists used lasers to measure Bolt's performance in the different stages of a 100-meter race held in September that year. They found that, 67.13 meters into the race, Bolt reached a top speed of 43.99 kilometers per hour (27.33 miles per hour).

Has anyone run 28 mph? ›

The record is 44.72 km/h (27.78 mph), measured between meter 60 and meter 80 of the 100 meters sprint at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics by Usain Bolt. (Bolt's average speed over the course of this race was 37.578 km/h or 23.35 mph.)

Did Michael Johnson run 100m? ›

At the 200 m final on August 1, Johnson ran the opening 100 meters in 10.12 seconds and finished the race in a world-record time of 19.32 seconds, breaking by more than three tenths of a second the previous record he had set in the U.S. Olympic Trials, on the same track one month earlier—the largest improvement ever on ...

Who is the oldest man to win the 100m Olympics? ›

At the World Championships in 1991, Christie set a new European record by clocking 9.92 seconds for the 100m - but still finished fourth. A year later, aged 32, he became the oldest man to win the Olympic 100m title.

What is Usain Bolt 400m time? ›

However, the controversy subsided, and both McNeil and Bolt went to the CARIFTA Games, where Bolt set championship records in the 200 m and 400 m with times of 21.12 s and 47.33 s, respectively.

How high can Noah Lyles jump? ›

If we're talking about how high Noah Lyles can jump off the ground, by measuring how high his feet get in the air, that's roughly 6 feet. The picture posted above by Track & Field Gazette on X from FFAthlétisme shows Lyles jumping during the 2024 World Athletics Indoor Championships in March 2024.

Is Noah Lyles related to Snoop Dogg? ›

Noah Lyles and Snoop Dogg are not related.

Noah Lyles is a leading American sprinter specializing in the 100m and 200m events, with multiple international medals to his name. On the other hand, Snoop Dogg is a celebrated rapper and cultural icon, recognized for his substantial impact on music and entertainment.

How much does Usain Bolt weigh? ›

Who was the last white man to win 100m gold in the Olympics? ›

Allan Wipper Wells MBE (born 3 May 1952) is a Scottish former track and field sprinter who became the 100 metres Olympic champion at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow.

What part of the body counts in a photo finish? ›

According to Olympic rules and regulations, the first athlete whose torso reaches the closest edge of the finish line is the winner. That means the trunk of the body is what counts, as opposed to the head, limbs or feet.

Who won the 100m sprint in the last Olympics? ›

Olympic 100m winners list
GamesGoldSilver
London 2012Usain Bolt (Jamaica)Yohan Blake (Jamaica)
Rio 2016Usain Bolt (Jamaica)Justin Gatlin (USA)
Tokyo 2020Marcell Jacobs (Italy)Fred Kerley (USA)
Paris 2024Noah Lyles (USA)Kishane Thompson (Jamaica)
26 more rows
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What has to cross finish line in track? ›

Per the Olympics' rules and regulations, the first athlete's torso to reach the vertical plane of the finish line is the winner, according to NBC. This is distinguished from the head, neck, arms, legs, hands or feet.

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