Team USA's Kenny Bednarek and Noah Lyles Take Silver and Bronze in 200-Meter Final Behind Botswana's Letsile Tebogo

Mar. 15, 2025

From left: Kenny Bednarek, Letsile Tebogo and Noah Lyles duing the men’s 200-meter final.Photo:JEWEL SAMAD/AFP via Getty Images

JEWEL SAMAD/AFP via Getty Images

Botswana’s Letsile Tebogo is an Olympic champion — while Noah Lyles' 200-meter redemption attempt has come up short.

Tebogo didn’t let up on the back stretch of the men’s 200-meter final at the2024 Paris Olympics, charging ahead and holding off Americans Lyles and Kenny Bednarek to win gold.

Bednarek, meanwhile, repeated his silver medal in the 200-meter from the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.

Noah Lyles ahead of the 200-meter final.Brendan Moran/Sportsfile via Getty Images

Brendan Moran/Sportsfile via Getty Images

Lyles was feeling confident after his 100-meter win on Sunday.

“To be honest, I just believed in myself,” Lyles told reporters, including PEOPLE, of how he was able to recover from a slower start to win gold. “That goes to prove that reaction time does not win races.”

“I’m still constantly moving forward, moving forward, moving forward, and I knew that when the time came, for me to be able to say, ‘This is the final, this is where I need to put it together,’ I was gonna do it,” he said.

source: people.com