Milliseconds separated the gold, silver and bronze medalists at the men’s 100-meter final in the Paris Olympics on Sunday. It then took several seconds for the photo review to be completed and the winner of the race to be revealed. But after what felt like a lifetime, U.S. sprinter Noah Lyles took home the gold, becoming the first American to win the gold medal in the 100-meter event in 20 years.
Lyles finished with a personal best time of 9.784 seconds, just 0.005 or five-thousandths of a second ahead of Jamaica’s Kishane Thompson, who took home silver (9.789 seconds). Team USA’s Fred Kerley finished .02 seconds behind Thompson for bronze (9.81 seconds).
