Video: USA's Noah Lyles Wins Men's 100m Gold Medal in Photo Finish at 2024 Olympics

Noah Lyles won the first United States men's Summer Olympics gold in the 100 meters in 20 years on Sunday.

Lyles used a lunge from one of the outside lanes to beat Jamaica's Kishane Thompson and fellow American Fred Kerley in a photo finish.

Lyles and Thompson both finished in 9.79 seconds, but it was the American who won out by inches at the end.

Results

1. Noah Lyles (United States) - 9.79 seconds

2. Kishane Thompson (Jamaica) - 9.79

3. Fred Kerley (United States) - 9.81

4. Akani Simbine (South Africa) - 9.82

5. Marcell Jacobs (Italy) - 9.85

6. Lestile Tebogo (Botswana) - 9.86

7. Kenneth Bednarek (United States) - 9.88

8. Oblique Seville (Jamaica) - 9.91

Lyles won the 100 meters with a remarkable finish.

The American sprinter did not have the best start in the eight-man field, but he made up for that by pushing to the end to take down Thompson.

Thompson initially thought he was the winner at the line because he was only focused on Kerley in the lane directly to the left of him.

After the review of the photo finish, Lyles was ruled to have beat Thompson from an outside lane by inches.

Lyles became the first American man to win the 100 meters since Justin Gatlin won the event at the 2004 Athens Games.

Kerley, who won the silver in Tokyo behind Italy's Marcell Jacobs, took bronze with a time just two-hundredths of a second off the time set by Lyles and Thompson.

Lyles and Kerley became the first pair of American men to medal in the 100 meters since Gatlin's win in 2004 when he shared the podium with bronze medalist Maurice Greene.

Lyles will now put all of his focus on the sprint double. He is expected to compete in the 200 meters final on Thursday.