Three days after Noah Lyles became the first American in 20 years to win Olympic gold in the men’s 100-meter final — and winning the race by just five thousandths of a second — Team USA also claimed the top spot in the 400-meter final.
It happened in equally dramatic fashion, too.
Quincy Hall, a Kansas City, Missouri native and former University of South Carolina All-American, finished first in a thrilling 400 final Wednesday at the 2024 Paris Olympics, staging a thrilling comeback to move from fourth place to first in the final portion of the race to edge out Great Britain’s Matthew Hudson-Smith by four hundredths of a second.
To get an idea of Hall’s spectacular feat, here’s a look at how the mad dash to the finish line went:
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Here are the full results of the men’s 400-meter final at the 2024 Paris Olympics:
Men’s 400m final results
First-, second- and third-place finishes win the gold, silver and bronze, respectively.
Quincy Hall (USA): 43.40
Matthew Hudson-Smith (Great Britain): 43.44
Muzala Samukonga (Zambia): 43.74
Jereem Richards (Trinidad and Tobago): 43.78
Kirani James (Grenada): 43.87
Christopher Bailey (USA): 44.58
Samuel Ogazi (Nigeria): 44.73
Michael Norman (USA): 45.62
Hall became the first American male athlete to win the 400 at the Olympics since LaShawn Merritt at the 2008 Beijing Games. Team USA had claimed the gold in the men’s 400 at every Olympics from 1984 through 2008.
