 Thompson at the2024 Summer Olympics | |||||||||||||||
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| Born | (2001-07-17)17 July 2001 (age 23) Mitchell Town,Jamaica | ||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)[1] | ||||||||||||||
| Sport | |||||||||||||||
| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||
| Event | Sprint | ||||||||||||||
| Achievements and titles | |||||||||||||||
| Personalbest(s) | 60 m: 6.48 s (2025) 100 m: 9.77 s (2024) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Kishane Thompson (born 17 July 2001) is a Jamaican track and field athlete who competes as asprinter.[2] He won the silver medal at the2024 Summer Olympics in the100 metres event.
A member of the MVP Track Club, Thompson competed at the Jamaican Championships in June 2023, and ran 9.91 seconds for the 100 metres in his qualifying heat.[3] However, he pulled-out of the competition prior to the semi-final. This was pre-planned, his coach Stephen Francis explained that due to a number of injuries in previous years he had a schedule to avoid multiple-round running that year.[4]
Thompson made hisDiamond League debut competing in the 100 metres inMonaco on 21 July 2023, running 10.04 seconds to finish fifth.[5] In September 2023, he lowered his 100 metres personal best to 9.85 seconds to finish second at the Diamond League event inXiamen, China.[6][7] At his last Diamond league match he ran 9.87 seconds to finish fourth inEugene,USA.
On 27 June 2024, he ran 9.82 seconds for the 100 metres in the opening round at the Jamaican Olympic trials inKingston, Jamaica.[8] In the subsequent final, he ran a new personal best of 9.77 seconds to win the Jamaican national title.[9]
At the2024 Summer Olympics, Thompson won silver behindNoah Lyles. Thompson and Lyles finished with the exact same time of 9.79 seconds, with Lyles ultimately awarded thegold medal by a margin of five-thousandths of a second after a photo finish.[10]
The close finish led to a heated debate among sports enthusiasts and analysts. Many argued that the race was a "dead heat" and that the gold medal should have been shared between the two athletes since their times were identical. The confusion was further amplified when notable sports broadcasters, includingNBC, initially reported that Thompson had won the race.[11][12]
In January 2025, he set a 60 metres personal best of 6.48 seconds at the Central Hurdles, Relays & Field Events Meet at the GC Foster College in St. Catherine. The time places him fifth on the Jamaican all-time list and was recorded into a -2.1m/s headwind.[13]
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