In one of the closest Olympic finishes of all time, former Texas A&M track and field athlete Fred Kerley claimed a bronze medal in the men’s 100-meter dash at the Paris Games on Sunday.

Kerley legged out the race in a season-best 9.81 seconds, just two-thousandths behind fellow American Noah Lyles and Jamaica’s Kishane Thompson. Lyles narrowly beat out Thompson for gold in a photo finish and the tightest Olympic race since 1980. Lyles’ chest crossed the line in 9.784 seconds, just ahead of Thompson’s 9.789 time.

The top seven of the race’s eight sprinters each finished within nine hundredths of a second of each other. Lyles is the first American to win the event since 2004.

With bronze, Kerley secured the second medal of his Olympic career after capturing silver in the 100 at the 2021 Tokyo Games. He’s the only athlete in the field with two medals in the event, while his 9.81 time is seventh-best in the event’s history.

Kerley posted a 9.97 in Round 1 of the competition on Saturday before finishing in 9.84 seconds in the semifinals earlier on Sunday.

Kerley competed for the Aggies from 2016-17 and was part of the program’s 2017 indoor national championship, winning the 400-meter.