Olympic Men’s Athletics Odds: Lyles Won the 100m Gold

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Noah Lyles of the United States won the men’s 100m at the last Olympics, in Paris in 2024, and Letsile Tebogo of Botswana won the 200m, with Lyles third. The next Olympic Games are in Los Angeles from July 14 to 30, 2028, and no odds for the 2028 athletics events are quoted here.

This page keeps the Paris results as the record, with the picks we published before them. It gets the 2028 schedule and prices when they can be sourced.

Paris 2024 men’s results

These are the gold, silver and bronze medalists in the 12 men’s events this page covered, from the official Olympic results.

EventGoldSilverBronze
100mNoah Lyles, USAKishane Thompson, JamaicaFred Kerley, USA
200mLetsile Tebogo, BotswanaKenneth Bednarek, USANoah Lyles, USA
110m hurdlesGrant Holloway, USADaniel Roberts, USARasheed Broadbell, Jamaica
400m hurdlesRai Benjamin, USAKarsten Warholm, NorwayAlison dos Santos, Brazil
High jumpHamish Kerr, New ZealandShelby McEwen, USAMutaz Essa Barshim, Qatar
Pole vaultArmand Duplantis, SwedenSam Kendricks, USAEmmanouil Karalis, Greece
Long jumpMiltiadis Tentoglou, GreeceWayne Pinnock, JamaicaMattia Furlani, Italy
Triple jumpJordan Alejandro Diaz Fortun, SpainPedro P. Pichardo, PortugalAndy Diaz, Italy
Shot putRyan Crouser, USAJoe Kovacs, USARajindra Campbell, Jamaica
DiscusRoje Stona, JamaicaMykolas Alekna, LithuaniaMatthew Denny, Australia
HammerEthan Katzberg, CanadaBence Halasz, HungaryMykhaylo Kokhan, Ukraine
JavelinArshad Nadeem, PakistanNeeraj Chopra, IndiaAnderson Peters, Grenada

The United States won four of these 12 gold medals, in the 100m, both hurdles races and the shot put, and took at least one medal in seven of the events. The field events spread the golds wider: Arshad Nadeem won the javelin for Pakistan, Hamish Kerr the high jump for New Zealand and Roje Stona the discus for Jamaica.

Our picks, as the record

EventOur pickResult
HammerEthan Katzberg (-300)Won
Shot putRyan Crouser (-180)Won
Pole vaultArmand Duplantis (-4000)Won
DiscusMykolas Alekna (-160)Lost, silver
Long jumpMiltiadis Tentoglou (-300)Won
JavelinNeeraj Chopra (+185)Lost, silver
High jumpGianmarco Tamberi (+135)Lost
Triple jumpJordan Alejandro Diaz (+175)Won
110m hurdlesGrant Holloway (-600)Won
400m hurdlesRai Benjamin (+150)Won
200mNoah Lyles (-250)Lost, bronze
100mNoah Lyles (+200)Won

Eight of the 12 won. Two of the four that lost finished second, and the shortest price among the losers, Lyles at -250 in the 200m, took bronze.

Olympic athletics odds for Los Angeles

No price on the 2028 events is quoted here, because we do not have a market we can source and date. When one goes up, read each price as a chance: -300 implies 75%, +150 implies 40% and +200 implies 33.3%.

A futures bet this far out ties up money for years, and it is worth making only when you rate an athlete’s chance higher than the price does. Compare books first with our sportsbook reviews.

Where to go next

The women’s events are on our Olympic women’s athletics page, and the men’s basketball tournament on our Olympic men’s basketball page.

Our Olympics betting guide and Summer Olympics betting guide explain how medal markets work.