Swiss 22-year-old 800 metre phenom, Audrey Werro, narrowly held off the hard-charging Dutch athlete Femke Broeders-Bol, who this year converted to the 800m, after years as a 400 metre hurdler. They finished first and second in 1:54.75 and 1:54.81, respectively. <\/p>\n
Ethiopia\u2019s Saida Tsehaye took third well back at 1:57.57. <\/p>\n
The pacer took the athletes through 400m in just over 55 seconds, which is what the athletes asked for. Werro led from gun to tape, but it was over the final 60m, where Broeders-Bol looked as though she might catch Werro and nearly did. If the race was 810m long, Broeders-Bol may have won. <\/p>\n
It was a meet record for Werro, who holds a personal best of 1:53.70 from the Z\u00fcrich Diamond League meet. At that same meet, Broeders-Bol ran her 1:54.71 PB on August 27. <\/p>\n
Werro is hoping to break the world record, which is held by former Czechoslovakian athlete Jarmila Kratochv\u00edlov\u00e1 with her 1:53.28 from July 1983. The only performances faster than Werro\u2019s are Kratochv\u00edlov\u00e1\u2019s and Nadezhda Olizarenko\u2019s run from July 1980. She is a Ukrainian runner. <\/p>\n
There are only eight faster athletes than Broeders-Bol in history, totaling 14 performances that sit in front of her. It is only a matter of time before both are 1-2 in history. Also in consideration is 24-year-old British runner Keely Hodgkinson, who is the Paris Olympic champion and has run as fast as 1:54.33 in June this year at the Stockholm Diamond League meet.<\/p>\n
Kenyan Pamela Jelimo held the meet record for 18 years at 1:55.16. She was an Olympic gold medallist from the 2008 Beijing Games and a silver medallist from the 2012 London Olympic Games. <\/p>\n
She continues to hold the U20 world record for her 1:54.01 run in Z\u00fcrich in 2008.<\/p>\n
Will Femke Broeders-Bol beat Audrey Werro in the 800m this season or next season? <\/p>\n
RankNatNameTime1SUIWERRO Audrey1:54.75 MR2NEDBROEDERS\u2011BOL Femke1:54.813ETHTSEHAYE Saida1:57.574SUIVANCARDO Veronica1:58.665AUSBILLINGS Sarah1:59.996USAWILEY Addison2:01.297BELLAUS Camille2:01.638RSASEKGODISO Prudence2:02.34DNFMRIKLOPFENSTEIN Rachel\u2014DQBOTNOWE OratileTR17.2.3<\/p>\n
Rank
\n Time
\n Name
\n Nat
\n DOB
\n Place
\n Date<\/p>\n
1
\n 1:53.28
\n Jarmila Kratochv\u00edlov\u00e1
\n CZE
\n 26.01.51
\n M\u00fcnchen
\n 26.07.1983<\/p>\n
2
\n 1:53.43
\n Nadezhda Olizarenko
\n UKR
\n 28.11.53
\n Moskva
\n 27.07.1980<\/p>\n
3
\n 1:53.70
\n Audrey Werro
\n SUI
\n 27.03.04
\n Z\u00fcrich
\n 27.08.2026<\/p>\n
4
\n 1:53.80
\n Audrey Werro
\n SUI
\n 27.03.04
\n Paris
\n 28.06.2026<\/p>\n
5
\n 1:53.98
\n Audrey Werro
\n SUI
\n 27.03.04
\n Stockholm
\n 07.06.2026<\/p>\n
6
\n 1:54.01
\n Pamela Jelimo
\n KEN
\n 05.12.89
\n Z\u00fcrich
\n 29.08.2008<\/p>\n
7
\n 1:54.25
\n Caster Semenya
\n RSA
\n 07.01.91
\n Paris
\n 30.06.2018<\/p>\n
8
\n 1:54.33
\n Keely Hodgkinson
\n GBR
\n 03.03.02
\n Stockholm
\n 07.06.2026<\/p>\n
9
\n 1:54.44
\n Ana Fidelia Quirot
\n CUB
\n 23.03.63
\n Barcelona
\n 09.09.1989<\/p>\n
10
\n 1:54.45
\n Audrey Werro
\n SUI
\n 27.03.04
\n Ostrava
\n 16.06.2026<\/p>\n
11
\n 1:54.60
\n Caster Semenya
\n RSA
\n 07.01.91
\n Monaco
\n 20.07.2018<\/p>\n
12
\n 1:54.61
\n Keely Hodgkinson
\n GBR
\n 03.03.02
\n London
\n 20.07.2024<\/p>\n
13
\n 1:54.62
\n Lilian Odira
\n KEN
\n 18.04.99
\n Tokyo
\n 21.09.2025<\/p>\n
14
\n 1:54.68
\n Jarmila Kratochv\u00edlov\u00e1
\n CZE
\n 26.01.51
\n Helsinki
\n 09.08.1983<\/p>\n
15
\n 1:54.71
\n Femke Broeders\u2011Bol
\n NED
\n 23.02.00
\n Z\u00fcrich
\n 27.08.2026<\/p>\n
16
\n 1:54.74
\n Keely Hodgkinson
\n GBR
\n 03.03.02
\n Chorz\u00f3w
\n 16.08.2025<\/p>\n
17
\n 1:54.77
\n Caster Semenya
\n RSA
\n 07.01.91
\n Ostrava
\n 09.09.2018<\/p>\n
18
\n 1:54.81
\n Olga Mineyeva
\n RUS
\n 01.10.52
\n Moskva
\n 27.07.1980<\/p>\n
18
\n 1:54.81
\n Audrey Werro
\n SUI
\n 27.03.04
\n Birmingham
\n 14.08.2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Swiss 22-year-old 800 metre phenom, Audrey Werro, narrowly held off the hard-charging Dutch athlete Femke Broeders-Bol, who this…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36505,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5],"tags":[19701,18,19702],"class_list":["post-36504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brussels","tag-audrey-werro","tag-brussels","tag-femke-broeders-bol"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@be\/117225290876470542","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36504\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}