Audrey Werro
Switzerland
Personal Bests
800 Metres
1:57.76
9/9/2024
400 Metres
52.69
9/10/2023
1000 Metres
Meeting Nikaia
2:34.89
6/17/2023
100 Metres
11.99=
6/3/2023
600 Metres
1:25.12
5/18/2023
Switzerland
800 Metres
1:57.76
9/9/2024
400 Metres
52.69
9/10/2023
1000 Metres
Meeting Nikaia
2:34.89
6/17/2023
100 Metres
11.99=
6/3/2023
600 Metres
1:25.12
5/18/2023
Femke Bol ran 1:55.60 at the Paris Diamond League to finish second behind Audrey Werro and improved her personal best by nearly two seconds, coming within 0.06 of Ellen van Langen's 1992 Dutch national record, and validating one of the most ambitious event switches in track in recent memory. It was only her fourth 800m race ever. Her third outdoor. Her full history at the distance is short: 1:59.07 indoors in February, 1:57.41 in Hengelo, 1:57.13 in Ostrava, and now 1:55.60 in Paris. Four races, three personal bests, and a finish that puts her third on the world leaderboard for 2026 behind only Werro and Keely Hodgkinson. In this video, we break down what's actually happening with the Bol transition. Why the switch from the 400m hurdles — where she had essentially no competition with Sydney McLaughlin out — looked aggressive on paper and now looks prescient. How the Anaïs Bourgoin battle through the final 230 meters likely helped Bol run faster than she would have solo, when in previous races at that point she had been gapped and dropped off the pace. And what 1:55.60 in her fourth race actually projects to over the next two-and-a-half years heading toward LA28. Take this interview on-the-go in podcast form: SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/episode/12GNR9HaXU8lUoWJ3P2ZNP?si=jNpYJJ83Q8aJfsFHhxRKKg APPLE PODCASTS: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/this-week-in-track-field-three-diamond-league-records/id1204506559?i=1000774777104 FOLLOW CITIUS MAG ▶ Subscribe to the podcast: https://apple.co/3Byp72I ▶ On Twitter: http://twitter.com/CitiusMag ▶ On Instagram: http://instagram.com/citiusmag ▶ On Facebook: http://facebook.com/citiusmag ▶ Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/citiusmag ▶ On our website: http://citiusmag.com For other inquiries, contact us: chris@citiusmag.com Thanks for watching - please like, share and comment, and subscribe! Help us continue to bring track and field to your home and become a member today! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjyDlyHPHLhcIT8ov53d5qg/join
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16 days ago
Audrey Werro ran 1:53.80 at the Paris Diamond League to win the women's 800m and continues her assault on the oldest world record in track. The time is a Diamond League record, a meet record, a world lead, a Swiss national record, and her third sub-1:54 of the 2026 season. She is the only woman in history with more than one sub-1:54 to her name. The world record, Jarmila Kratochvilova's 1:53.28 from 1983, is 0.52 seconds away. It was an extraordinary race even beyond Werro. Five athletes ran personal bests. Femke Broeders-Bol went 1:55.60 for second, French runner Anaïs Bourgoin ran 1:55.65 for a national record in third, and the full top six all finished inside 1:57.01. In this video, we break down what 1:53.80 actually tells us about the world record threat. Take this interview on-the-go in podcast form: SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/episode/12GNR9HaXU8lUoWJ3P2ZNP?si=jNpYJJ83Q8aJfsFHhxRKKg APPLE PODCASTS: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/this-week-in-track-field-three-diamond-league-records/id1204506559?i=1000774777104 FOLLOW CITIUS MAG ▶ Subscribe to the podcast: https://apple.co/3Byp72I ▶ On Twitter: http://twitter.com/CitiusMag ▶ On Instagram: http://instagram.com/citiusmag ▶ On Facebook: http://facebook.com/citiusmag ▶ Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/citiusmag ▶ On our website: http://citiusmag.com For other inquiries, contact us: chris@citiusmag.com Thanks for watching - please like, share and comment, and subscribe! Help us continue to bring track and field to your home and become a member today! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjyDlyHPHLhcIT8ov53d5qg/join
In near-perfect conditions following a week of brutal French heat, Sunday’s Paris Diamond League produced three Diamond League records.
In this episode:
– Audrey Werro came to Paris explicitly targeting the women’s 800m world record and ran a personal best of 1:53.80 — a Diamond League record, meet record, world lead, and Swiss national record. She’s now the only woman ever with multiple sub-1:54 performances (three of them, all this season). The world record is 1:53.28, set by Jarmila Kratochvílová in 1983. Werro is 0.52 back.
– Femke Broeders-Bol’s 800m transition is real. The reigning 400m hurdles world champion ran 1:55.60 in the 800m — a massive personal best — finishing second behind Werro’s Diamond League record. Her move to the 800m is no longer an experiment.
– Cam Myers ran 3:28.00 in the Paris Diamond League 1500m — a personal best by over a second, the 27th fastest time in history, and faster than Jakob Ingebrigtsen at the same age (Jakob ran 3:28.68 at 20). Myers beat a field that included 3:27 man Azeddine Habz and 2025 World Championship medalists Jake Wightman and Reynold Cheruiyot
– What it all means for the Bowerman Mile at the Prefontaine Classic
– Grant Fisher won the Paris Diamond League 5000m in 12:54.80, edging Jacob Krop (12:55.22) and Andreas Almgren (12:55.38) in a stacked field where ten athletes broke 13:00. The win also marked the fifth Diamond League victory by an American men’s mid-distance runner in 2026 — the most ever in a single year, with seven meets still remaining.
– Marco Arop dominates the men’s 800m. He confirmed after the race that he intends to go for the record this year: “Clearly I’m in shape for it”
– Trayvon Bromell beats Noah Lyles and there’s Twitter comments afterward by the Olympic champion
– Jamal Britt runs 12.89 PB in Paris — his 10th win of 2026, his 12th meet since April
– Collen Kebinatshipi runs 43.54 Diamond League record in Paris.
+ More highlights and shout-outs from around the running world including Western States.
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Switzerland's Audrey Werro ran 1:53.98 to win the Stockholm Diamond League – Diamond League record, a personal best by nearly two seconds, and the first time any woman has broken 1:54 since 1983. Only Jarmila Kratochvilova (1:53.28) and Nadezhda Olizarenko (1:53.43) have ever run faster, both more than 40 years ago, both under clouds of suspicion from the Eastern Bloc doping era. For many track fans, Werro's 1:53.98 could be viewed as the first clean sub-1:54 in history and the real world record. Olympic champion Keely Hodgkinson ran 1:54.33 for second. It's a personal best. It's the sixth-fastest 800m ever recorded. In this video, we break down what just happened: how the race actually unfolded and what it means for the women's 800m heading into the rest of the season — including Keely's stated world record attempt in London on July 18. Take this podcast on the go in audio form via: SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/episode/05xhWY0PxqwysmKXuvCWxz?si=BPd2pn4gS6OCRlirSUkOxw APPLE PODCASTS: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/this-week-in-track-field-audrey-werro-stuns-keely-hodgkinson/id1204506559?i=1000771768260 FOLLOW CITIUS MAG ▶ Subscribe to the podcast: https://apple.co/3Byp72I ▶ On Twitter: http://twitter.com/CitiusMag ▶ On Instagram: http://instagram.com/citiusmag ▶ On Facebook: http://facebook.com/citiusmag ▶ Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/citiusmag ▶ On our website: http://citiusmag.com For other inquiries, contact us: chris@citiusmag.com Thanks for watching - please like, share and comment, and subscribe! Help us continue to bring track and field to your home and become a member today! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjyDlyHPHLhcIT8ov53d5qg/join
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The women's 800m at the World Indoor Tour in Belgrade did not disappoint, as a new world lead was set by Switzerland's Audrey Werro. Watch the full race replay here. Website: http://flosports.link/3p20lTj Subscribe: http://flosports.link/3p4YLQp Get the FloSports iOS app: http://bit.ly/FloTrackiOSApp_9 Follow FloTrack Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FloTrack Twitter: https://twitter.com/flotrack Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/FloTrack
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8 months ago
European Rising Star Audrey Werro sat down with European Athletics for an exclusive chat ahead of Birmingham 2026. 🇪🇺🔥 SUBSCRIBE to our channel for the best European Athletics videos and highlights: https://www.youtube.com/europeanathletics Follow European Athletics: https://www.european-athletics.com/ https://www.instagram.com/europeanathletics/ https://www.facebook.com/EuropeanAthletics https://twitter.com/EuroAthletics https://www.tiktok.com/@europeanathletics #Athletics #EuropeanAthletics #TrackandField
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8 months ago
European Rising Star Audrey Werro sat down with European Athletics for an exclusive chat ahead of Birmingham 2026. 🇪🇺🔥 SUBSCRIBE to our channel for the best European Athletics videos and highlights: https://www.youtube.com/europeanathletics Follow European Athletics: https://www.european-athletics.com/ https://www.instagram.com/europeanathletics/ https://www.facebook.com/EuropeanAthletics https://twitter.com/EuroAthletics https://www.tiktok.com/@europeanathletics #Athletics #EuropeanAthletics #TrackandField
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over 1 year ago
Sunday 9 March 2025: Day Four Highlights from the EICH in Apeldoorn 2025 Includes coverage from the following events: - Men 4x400m Relay - Women 4x400m Relay (ft the Dutch team including Femke Bol, Lieke Klaver, Cathelijn Peeters) - Men 3000m (ft Jakob Ingebrigtsen, Niels Laros, George Mills, Azeddine Habz, Andreas Almgren) - Men 800 (ft. Samuel Chapple, Eliott Crestan, Mark English) - Women 800m (ft. Anna Wielgosz, Clara Liberman, Audrey Werro, Anita Horvat) - Women 60m (ft. Mujinga Kambundji, Ewa Swoboda, Zaynab Dossa, Patrizia Van der Weken, Amy Hunt) - W3000 (ft Hannah Nuttall, Sarah Healy, Melissa Courtney-Bryant, Salomé Afonso) - Women Pentathlon ( ft. Jade O’Dowda, Saga Vanninen, Sofie Dokter, Kate O’Connor) - Men Pole Vault (ft. Emmanouil Karalis, Thibaut Collet, Menno Vloon, Bo Kanda Lita Baehre - Women Shot Put (ft. Yemisi Ogunleye, Jessica Schilder, Auriol Dongmo, Jorinde van Klinken) - Women High jump (ft. Yaroslava Mahuchikh, Angelina Topic ) - Men Shot Put (ft. Wictor Petersson, Tomáš Stanek, Zane Weir, Andrei Rares Toader) SUBSCRIBE to our channel for the best European Athletics videos and highlights: https://www.youtube.com/europeanathletics Follow European Athletics: https://www.european-athletics.com/ https://www.instagram.com/europeanathletics/ https://www.facebook.com/EuropeanAthletics https://twitter.com/EuroAthletics https://www.tiktok.com/@europeanathletics brnw.ch/EAWhatsApp #Athletics #EuropeanAthletics #TrackandField
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over 1 year ago
Two-time European U20 800m champion Audrey Werro was a convincing winner in the 800m at the Meeting de l'Eure in Val-de-Reuil. SUBSCRIBE to our channel for the best European Athletics videos and highlights: https://www.youtube.com/europeanathletics Follow European Athletics: https://www.european-athletics.com/ https://www.instagram.com/europeanathletics/ https://www.facebook.com/EuropeanAthletics https://twitter.com/EuroAthletics https://www.tiktok.com/@europeanathletics #Athletics #EuropeanAthletics #TrackandField