{"id":113370,"date":"2026-08-09T14:52:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T14:52:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/113370\/"},"modified":"2026-08-09T14:52:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T14:52:16","slug":"odira-to-collide-with-werro-bol-at-lausanne-diamond-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/113370\/","title":{"rendered":"Odira to collide with Werro, Bol at Lausanne Diamond League"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>World 800m champion Lilian Odira will face a stern test, when she lines at the Lausanne leg of the Wanda Diamond League on Friday, 21 August.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.mozzartsportke\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: rgb(0, 102, 204);\">Download our Mozzart Sport app for more news<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The 27-year-old, who recently won silver at the 2026 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, is expected to come up against other star names in Audrey Werro and Femke Broeders-Bol, in the women&#8217;s 800m event.<\/p>\n<p>The Kenyan will be hoping to build on her Diamond League victory over world number one Keely Hodgkinson in Eugene last month, which was her first on athletics\u2019 premier one-day circuit.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"related-news\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mozzartsport.co.ke\/athletics\/news\/kenyan-youngster-wins-gold-in-championship-record-time-at-wu20s\/67914\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"related-news-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1786167447672_emmal.jpg\" alt=\"Kenyan youngster wins gold in Championship Record time at WU20s\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the shape of Swiss star Werro, Odira faces the reigning series champion, who has been on a tear this season, breaking two Diamond League records in Stockholm and Paris, therefore becoming the third-fastest woman in history.<\/p>\n<p>The duo&#8217;s only meeting this year came at the Rabat Diamond League in May, when Werro took the win in a time of 1:56.56, with Odira finishing third clocking 1:56.56.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"World 800m champion Lilian Odira will face a stern test, when she lines at the Lausanne leg of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":113371,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[9],"tags":[46860,55223,94,10667,55224,46864],"class_list":["post-113370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lausanne","tag-audrey-werro","tag-femke-bol","tag-lausanne","tag-lausanne-diamond-league","tag-lilian-odira","tag-wanda-diamond-league"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/117066121067433490","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113370\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}