TODAY IN PARIS: Lyles wins Olympic 100m title by 0.005 as Mahuchikh and Katzberg claim gold

By a margin of just five thousandths of a second, Noah Lyles earned the Olympic gold for which he has striven all his life – and it surely won’t be the last.

For much of the men’s 100m final at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games here in a packed Stade de France on Sunday (4 August), it seemed the crown would go to the powerful 23-year-old Jamaican who arrived in Paris topping the world list on 9.77, Kishane Thompson, but Lyles’ late surge saw him claim the title after both clocked 9.79.

Earlier, Ukraine’s Yaroslava Mahuchikh, who raised the women’s high jump world record to 2.10m when she last visited Paris in July, found the French capital to be a happy hunting ground once more as she added an Olympic gold to the bronze she won three years ago in Tokyo.

And Canada’s 22-year-old world champion in the men’s hammer, Ethan Katzberg, added Olympic gold with the second-best throw ever seen at the Games, 84.12m.

• Morning session round-up
• Evening session round-up

Day three event reports
• Men’s 100m
• Women’s high jump
• Men’s hammer

Looking ahead
• Five things to look forward to on day five

Source: World Athletics