On Thursday, South African dash star Bayanda Walaza claimed his second gold medal of the Rhine-Ruhr 2025 FISU World College Video games, hovering to the 200m title in 20.63 seconds at Bochum, Germany’s Lohrheidestadion. Two days earlier, the 19-year-old received the 100m in 10.16, finishing his second 100m-200m double on the world stage in lower than a yr.
Within the 200m ultimate, Spain’s Adria Alfonso Medero (20.70) and Korea’s Jaeseong Lee (20.75) rounded out the rostrum. Within the 100m, Thailand’s Puripol Boonson (10.22) and Japan’s Hiroki Yanagita (10.23) took silver and bronze, respectively.
“Successful is a giant factor to me; I respect every win,” Walaza, a first-year humanities scholar at Tshwane College of Know-how in Pretoria, South Africa, instructed media after the 100m. “I give due to the individuals I used to be working with, the competitors–I don’t take that without any consideration. [The race] was good–it is a second I’ll bear in mind.”
GOLD once more for Bayanda Walaza 🇿🇦 within the males’s 200m on the World College Video games!!🥇🥇
He completes the 100/200m double in Rhine-Ruhr, working 20.63s (-0.3) to win the 200m. pic.twitter.com/y2t52eYf9v
— Monitor & Area Gazette (@TrackGazette) July 24, 2025
In March, Walaza grew to become the first man this yr to dip below the 10-second barrier, clocking 9.99 seconds. His 9.94 private finest, set in Could, stands because the South African document and the quickest U20 time of 2025 (and the Twelfth-fastest on the senior stage).
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Changing into the world U20 champion
On the Paris Olympics final August, Walaza was a part of the South African quartet that raced to a silver medal within the 4 x 100m relay–ending runner-up to Canada. A number of weeks later, on the World U20 Championships in Lima, Peru, Walaza received 100m gold earlier than edging out Australian teen phenom Gout Gout for the 200m title.
See right here for full outcomes from the World College Video games.