Athletics at the 2025 Summer World University Games – Men's 200 metres

Men's 200 metres at the 2025 Summer World University Games
Venue	Lohrheidestadion
Location	Bochum, Germany
Dates	23 July (heats) 24 July (semi-finals & final)
Competitors	51 from 38 nations
Winning time	20.63
Medalists
Bayanda Walaza    South Africa   Adrià Alfonso Medero    Spain   Lee Jae-seong    South Korea
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The men's 200 metres event at the 2025 Summer World University Games was held in Bochum, Germany, at Lohrheidestadion on 23 and 24 July. ^{[1] [2]}

Records

Prior to the competition, the records were as follows:

Record	Athlete (nation)	Time (s)	Location	Date
Games record	Pietro Mennea  (ITA)	19.72	Mexico City, Mexico	12 September 1979

Results

Heats

First 3 in each heat (Q) and the next 3 fastest (q) qualified for the semi-finals. ^[3]

Heat 1

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Animesh Kujur	India	21.16	Q
2	Valtteri Louko  [ fi ]	Finland	21.31	Q
3	Huang Tso-chun  [ de ]	Chinese Taipei	21.46	Q
4	Jordan Soufi	Canada	21.74
5	Joseph Okolimo	Uganda	21.84
6	Dickson Edward Silayo	Tanzania	24.21
[4]			Wind: (−0.2 m/s)

Heat 2

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Bayanda Walaza	South Africa	20.93	Q
2	Łukasz Żok  [ de; no; pl ]	Poland	21.06	Q
3	Zalán Deák	Hungary	21.23	Q
4	Muhd Azeem Fahmi	Malaysia	21.26	q
5	Harry Taylor	Great Britain	21.48
6	Ka In Vong	Macau	22.35
7	Brandon Pemberton	Virgin Islands	22.72
[5]			Wind: (±0.0 m/s)

Heat 3

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Zoltán Wahl	Hungary	20.93	Q, SB
2	Daniel Magogo	Zimbabwe	20.94	Q, PB
3	Seo Min-jun  [ de ]	South Korea	21.00	Q
4	Trelee Banks-Rose	United States	21.08	q
5	Hamzah al Jabri	Oman	21.29	q, PB
6	Emil Frænde	Denmark	21.32	PB
7	Robin Sapar	Estonia	21.75
8	Isaac Benjamin Joseph	Haiti	21.77
[6]			Wind: (+0.5 m/s)

Heat 4

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Christopher Ius  [ d ]	Australia	21.02	Q
2	Tomáš Němejc	Czech Republic	21.14	Q
3	Filip Federič  [ de ]	Slovakia	21.55	Q
4	Anže Verbovšek	Slovenia	21.64
5	Magnus Johannsson  [ de ]	Hong Kong	21.76 [.756]
6	Abdulaziz Al-Shahrani	Saudi Arabia	21.76 [.757]	SB
7	Hope Zemba	Zambia	24.01
8	Sarzil Hasan Khan Zedan	Bangladesh	24.73
[7]			Wind: (+1.5 m/s)

Heat 5

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Eckhart Potgieter	South Africa	20.95	Q
2	David Chapman	Great Britain	21.06	Q, SB
3	Tommy Te Puni	New Zealand	21.18	Q
4	Manikanta Hoblidhar	India	21.42
5	Beppe Grillo  [ de; it; no ]	Malta	21.51
6	Yan Teo	Singapore	21.62
7	Santiago Paul Llerena	Ecuador	22.45
[8]			Wind: (+1.4 m/s)

Heat 6

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Lee Jae-seong  [ de ]	South Korea	20.60	Q
2	Adrià Alfonso Medero	Spain	20.65	Q
3	King Wai Yip  [ de ]	Hong Kong	21.24	Q
4	Jakub Nemec	Slovakia	21.37
5	Jurij Beber	Slovenia	21.52
6	Joshua Duckman	Canada	21.76
7	Chanyourong Noeb	Cambodia	22.02	PB
[9]			Wind: (+1.0 m/s)

Heat 7

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Aidan Murphy	Australia	21.04	Q
2	Isaac Kundu Omurwa	Kenya	21.28	Q
3	Genta Iki	Japan	21.61	Q
4	Tsung-Han Lin	Chinese Taipei	21.62
5	Aidil Auf Hajam	Malaysia	21.69
6	Juan Martin Barbas	Argentina	21.82	PB
7	Khalid Saud Al-Maashari	Oman	22.62
8	Jorge Luis Mendoza Galindo	Honduras	23.11
[10]			Wind: (+0.7 m/s)

Semi-finals

First 2 in each heat (Q) and the next 2 fastest (q) qualified for the final. ^[11]

Heat 1

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Bayanda Walaza	South Africa	20.76	Q
2	Adrià Alfonso Medero	Spain	20.77	Q
3	Christopher Ius  [ d ]	Australia	20.85	q
4	Valtteri Louko  [ fi ]	Finland	21.24
5	David Chapman	Great Britain	21.32 [.318]
6	Zalán deák	Hungary	21.32 [.318]
7	Muhd Azeem Fahmi	Malaysia	21.51
8	Filip Federič  [ de ]	Slovakia	21.74
[12]			Wind: (−0.8 m/s)

Heat 2

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Lee Jae-seong  [ de ]	South Korea	20.73	Q
2	Aidan Murphy	Australia	20.94 [.933]	Q
3	Animesh Kujur	India	20.94 [.937]	q
4	Tomáš Němejc	Czech Republic	21.19
5	Isaac Kundu Omurwa	Kenya	21.20
6	Huang Tso-chun  [ de ]	Chinese Taipei	21.31
7	King Wai Yip  [ de ]	Hong Kong	21.37
[13]			Wind: (−1.0 m/s)

Heat 3

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Daniel Magogo	Zimbabwe	21.00	Q
2	Eckhart Potgieter	South Africa	21.06	Q
3	Seo Min-jun  [ de ]	South Korea	21.17
4	Łukasz Żok  [ de; no; pl ]	Poland	21.18
5	Zoltán Wahl	Hungary	21.20
6	Tommy Te Puni	New Zealand	21.21
7	Trelee Banks-Rose	United States	21.23
8	Genta Iki	Japan	23.08
[14]			Wind: (−1.0 m/s)

Final

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
	Bayanda Walaza	South Africa	20.63
	Adrià Alfonso Medero	Spain	20.70
	Lee Jae-seong  [ de ]	South Korea	20.75
4	Animesh Kujur	India	20.85
5	Aidan Murphy	Australia	20.92
6	Daniel Magogo	Zimbabwe	21.00
7	Christopher Ius  [ d ]	Australia	21.01
—	Eckhart Potgieter	South Africa	DQ	TR 17.2.3
[15]			Wind: (−0.3 m/s)

References

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