The men's 100m final at the 2024 Paris Olympic Games is scheduled to begin at 1:20am IST. Here are the eight finalists vying to be named fastest man on planet Earth. (Full Olympics Coverage|Live Streaming|More Sports News)
United States’ Noah Lyles has been crowned the fastest man alive at the 2024 Paris Olympic Games after winning the 100m final at the Stade de France in Paris.
The men's 100m final at the 2024 Paris Olympic Games is scheduled to begin at 1:20am IST. Here are the eight finalists vying to be named fastest man on planet Earth. (Full Olympics Coverage|Live Streaming|More Sports News)
1. Kishane Thompson (Jamaica)
2. Oblique Seville (Jamaica)
3. Noah Lyles (USA)
4. Fred Kerley (USA)
5. Akani Simbane (South Africa)
6. Letsile Tebogo (Botswana)
7. Lamont Marcell Jacobs (Italy)
8. Kenny Bednarek (USA)
Kishane Thompson, Oblique Seville, Noah Lyles or Letsile Tebogo - surely the money has to be on them? Well, regardless of who takes the title home, it sure feels we will have a cracking contest on the cards..
We are just 10 mins away from one of the most exciting, nerve wracking, spine-tingling races on the planet Earth. You blink, and you miss it.
The lights, the noise, the madness around the stadium is through the roof. The Stade de France at the French capital is embracing the calm before the storm.
Four years of wait, four years of struggle, four years of fight, and it could all be done in ten seconds. The world's attention falls on the eight athletes that are ready to light up, make history under Parisian skies.
United States’ Lyles edges Jamaica’s Thompson by 4/1000th of a second to take the men’s 100m gold at the 2024 Paris Olympics.
Is that the closest 100m race in recent times? The fans were not sure, the athletes were not sure and had to wait for the results to show up. Not much separated Lyles and Thompson, but Lyles just ahead, by the thinnest of margins.
Noah Lyles (USA) – 9.79 (.784)
Kishane Thompson (Jamaica) – 9.79 (.789)
Fred Kerley (USA) – 9.81
Akani Simbane (South Africa) – 9.82
Lamont Marcell Jacobs (Italy) – 9.85
Letsile Tebogo (Botswana) – 9.86
Kenneth Bednarek (USA) – 9.88
Oblique Seville (Jamaica) – 9.91
It was fast, quick, exciting and it is over. That's the 100m men's finals at the Paris Olympic Games 2024. Thanks for joining. We will see you soon. Until next time, take care.