Kenny Bednarek considers different approach to winning individual GOLD after falling short in Tokyo

Two-time Olympic silver medallist Kenny Bednarek will surprisingly consider a different approach to winning an individual gold medal after falling short at the Tokyo 2025 World Championships.

The American speedster who has always played second fiddle to title winners at major championships, seems to have had enough of his accumulating silver medals in the 200m event and is now considering going back to his first love - the 400m.

Speaking in an interview with @preferredrecruit, Bednarek made the huge announcement.

"I'm also trying to go back to the 400m. I wanna break my PB and I want to hit the 43 seconds."

At the just concluded Tokyo 2025 World Championships, the talented sprinter settled for another silver medal behind Noah Lyles in the men's 200m final, bringing his career accumulation to four (two at the Olympics - Tokyo 2020 and Paris 2024) and (two at the world championships - Budapest 2023 and Tokyo 2025).

Bednarek came out of high school as a 400m specialist but transitioned successfully into the 200m in college, where as a freshman at Indian Hills Community College in 2019, at the age of 20, he ran the fourth fastest 200m ever at the time under any conditions, clocking 19.49s in the semi-finals of the NJCAA National Championships in New Mexico.

The following day, Bednarek proved his speed by running 19.82s into a -0.8 headwind and running a 44.73s in the 400m on the same day, becoming the NJCAA national champion in both events.

His exceptional feat made him the second man in history behind Botswanan Isaac Makwala, to ever run sub-20 and sub-45 on the same day.

Since turning professional in 2019, Bednarek has proven he can effectively combine both events, and despite focusing majorly on the 200m in the past few years, his transition back to the 400m will surely be an exciting one to anticipate.

He has got the talent to do this, and hopefully he can see him earn his place among the world's best quarter-milers when he starts competing in the event again.