American runner Noah Lyles gained the gold medal withinside the a hundred meter dash Sunday—with a time of 9.784 seconds—beating Jamaica's Kishane Thompson via way of means of simply 5 thousandths of a 2nd and turning into the primary American in twenty years to win gold withinside the occasion .
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Noah Lyles, of the United States, celebrates after
Lyles gained his first ever Olympic gold medal in a image finish, with the runners having to look forward to a image assessment to understand who gained the race.
After the image assessment showed he gained the gold, Lyles celebrated and appeared right into a digital digicam to say, "America, I advised you," NBC News reported.
Team USA's Fred Kerley took bronze withinside the occasion with a time of 9. eighty one seconds.
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