Athletics: After Gold, Is It Time for a Record for Audrey Werro?
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Newly-crowned European champ Werro turns focus on 800m record
Werro outgunned Britain's Olympic champion Keely Hodgkinson for continental gold in a championship record of 1min 54.81sec. The 22-year-old Swiss athlete has twice broken the 1:54 barrier this season, becoming the first woman to do so since 1983. That was the year that Jarmila Kratochvilova of then-Czechoslovakia ran the two-lap race in 1:53.28. It remains the oldest world record in track and field, albeit one that is highly contested having com…
Last year, before the Lausanne meet, the young woman from Fribourg participated in her first Diamond League press conference, invited as a local athlete and boasting a very strong 400m time (51.03, later improved to 50.80). The following day, in torrential rain, she finished second in the 800m behind Olympic champion Keely Hodgkinson, achieving her best result on the prestigious circuit. A year later, at 22, Werro has become the new star of the …
The 22-year-old Swissman tries this Friday in Lausanne to break the 43-year-old Jarmila Kratochvilova's brand. She has already signed the third time... The article Audrey Werro runs after the world record of the 800m, a 1983 myth appeared first on Le Singulier.
After a five-week break, the Diamond League resumed in Lausanne on Friday (live on the L'Équipe chain). Switzerland's Audrey Werro arrived after her 800-metre European title, while the Letsile Tebogo and Shericka Jackson sprinters arrived with fewer marks on the new Vaud track.
The superlatives sound when it comes to talking about Audrey Werro. In a few months, the Freiburger went on to become a world star in athletics. In Paris in June, with its 1.53"80, she established the third best world performance of all time over 800m. Can she beat the oldest record in the world of athletics, set by Czech Jarmila Kratochvilova on 26 July 1983 (1er53"28)? She seems best placed when approaching Athletissima and Weltklasse.
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