What is Noah Lyles' fastest 100m time?

9.79 seconds, from the Paris 2024 Olympic final (9.784) and again in New York on 24 July 2026.

How close was the Paris 2024 100m final?

Lyles ran 9.784 and Kishane Thompson 9.789, a margin of 0.005 seconds.

What is Noah Lyles' 200m personal best?

19.31, run in Eugene on 21 July 2022. It is the American record.

What would Noah Lyles run in the 40-yard dash?

He has no timed 40. Our model, fitted to Bolt's Berlin splits, puts a 9.79 100m at about 4.27 for 40 yards from first movement.

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Noah Lyles' 100m time

Noah Lyles' 100m personal best is 9.79 seconds, set winning the Paris 2024 Olympic final on 4 August 2024 (+1.0 m/s), where his 9.784 beat Kishane Thompson's 9.789 by five thousandths. He ran 9.79 again at Icahn Stadium in New York on 24 July 2026.

100mOlympic final, Saint-Denis, 4 Aug 2024 (+1.0); 9.784 to the thousandthOn record: 9.79
100m (2026)Icahn Stadium, New York, 24 Jul 2026 (+0.8)On record: 9.79
200mEugene, 21 Jul 2022, American recordOn record: 19.31

Compare yourself to Noah Lyles

The converter starts at Noah Lyles's 100m time. Put in yours to see your speed and how far behind (or ahead of) Lyles you'd finish.

Your event

Your time (seconds)

Estimated 40-yard dash

4.27 s

from first movement, no reaction

Average speed over 100m

22.8 mph

36.8 km/h · 10.21 m/s

Estimated top speed

26.6 mph

42.9 km/h · 11.90 m/s

These numbers are estimates from a sprint velocity curve fitted to Usain Bolt's official Berlin 2009 splits. A 40 is timed from first movement and often by hand, so football 40s convert to optimistic 100m times. How the estimate works

You vs. the fastest, over 100m

The gap when the winner crosses the line.

Usain Bolt 9.58 s (world record)
Bolt wins by 2.5 m
Noah Lyles 9.79 s (PB)
Dead heat
Gout Gout 10.00 s (PB)
You win by 2.4 m
Tyreek Hill 10.19 s (HS 2012)
You win by 4.5 m

The 9.79 in context

The Paris final was decided by five thousandths of a second: Lyles 9.784, Kishane Thompson 9.789, both rounded to 9.79. Two years later Lyles ran 9.79 again to win in New York.

Lyles is a 200m runner first. His 19.31 from 2022 is the American record, and his championship history includes Olympic 100m gold (2024) and world titles at 100m (2023) and 200m (2019, 2022, 2023, 2025).

Noah Lyles vs. Usain Bolt

Bolt's 9.58 is 0.21 s quicker than Lyles' 9.79. At sprint speeds of roughly 12 m/s that is about 2.5 m of daylight when Bolt hits the line, the gap the converter above shows for a 9.79.

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