The clavicle bone and head bone joined, followed by a gold medal for sprinter Noah Lyles
Noah Lyles wins gold in the 100-meter sprint – In Sunday’s men’s 100-meter photo finish race, American sprinter Noah Lyles won by a margin of 5 1/1000th of a second, or, if measured in terms of body parts, a clavicle.
Officially, Lyles and Jamaican sprinter Kishane Thompson both finished in 9.79 seconds, but due to a narrow margin, a photo finish was used to confirm the results. Lyles, with a time of 9.784, narrowly defeated Thompson, with a time of 9.789) to win the gold medal and the title of fastest man in the world.
With his triumph, Lyles broke a 20-year streak of American men finishing first on the men’s 100-meter dash podium. Lyles is the first American to win gold in the event since Justin Gatlin did it at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens.
Here is all the information you need to know about the regulations controlling track and field finals at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris:
Which official regulation governs Olympic track and field finishes?
Track and field competition winners are chosen in a concise manner, as NBC’s Mike Tirico explained just after the men’s 100-meter race finished. Tirico clarified that in Olympic competitions, a winner is declared if any portion of the front-runner’s body crosses the finish line’s vertical plane.
Similar wording may be found in the 2024 USATF Competition Rules, which are issued by USA Track & Field, the organization that is in charge of managing Team USA’s international track and field events.
“Competitors shall be placed at the finish line in the order in which any part of their bodies (i.e., the ‘torso,’ as distinguished from the head, neck, arms, hands, legs, or feet) reaches the finish line,” reads the first point of Rule 163, which deals with running competitions, on page 67 of the document.
The technical rules for track and field competitions are likewise written in a similar manner by the sports governing organization, World Athletics.
How did the Noah Lyles 100-meter picture turn out?
The shot of Lyles winning the men’s 100-meter sprint was released by Omega, the official source of photo finish photographs for the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris. Lyles can be seen in the picture stretching his body forward and crossing the line ahead of everyone else with his torso, namely his shoulder and collarbone.
How did Noah Lyles win the sprint gold medal at 100 meters?
Lyles, who was renowned for his ability to finish strong in races, was forced to depend solely on that, sprinting ahead to narrowly defeat Kishane Thompson. After Thompson and many other sprinters shot out of the blocks to grab early leads, Lyles struggled to catch up in the second part of the race.
Men’s final 100-meter results
The gold, silver, and bronze medals are awarded for first, second, and third place finishers, respectively.
- Noah Lyles (USA): 9.79 (.784)
- Kishane Thompson (Jamaica): 9.79 (.789)
- Fred Kerley (USA): 9.81
- Akani Simbine (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
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