Audrey Werro (born 27 March 2004) is a Swiss track and field

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. She won the silver medal in the 800 metres at the 2022 World Under-20 Championships and gold medals at the 2021 European U20 Championships as well as the 2023 European U20 Championships. Werro won four Swiss titles and holds national records at the U18 and U20 levels.

Early life

Audrey Werro was born on 27 March 2004 to a Swiss father, Claude Werro, and an Ivorian mother, Philomène Werro. Audrey is one of four children. She has a sister and two brothers. She is from Fribourg, in west Switzerland, and studies nearby at Gambach College (or Collège de Gambach as it is known in French). Werro began athletics at the age of nine. She joined Club Athlétique Belfaux, and began to be coached by Christiane Berset Nuoffer, who continued as her coach into her professional career.

Career

2021

In June 2021, at age 17, Audrey Werro was runner-up in the 800 metres at the Swiss Championships, running 2:02.88 to finish behind champion

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. She set new national U18 records over the

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and 800 metres that year. In July, she went to the European Under-20 Championships held in Tallinn, Estonia, where competing against athletes up to two years her senior she won the gold medal for the 800 m.

2022

In February 2022, Werro broke the Swiss U23 indoor 400 m record by 0.84 s with a time of 53.03 seconds in

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. She next became the national indoor champion over the 800 m, running 2:04.95 also in Magglingen. In June, she broke the Swiss U20 and U23 records in the outdoor event, previously held by

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(2:01.29), with a time of 2:00:28 in Geneva. The same month, Werro also won the Swiss 800 m outdoor title, clocking 2:02.72 in Zürich. In August, she won the silver medal in the event at the World U20 Championships held in

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, Colombia with an U23 national record of 1:59.53, behind

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for whom it was also the first time she ran sub-two minutes in an 800 m race. The same month, Werro made her debut in the senior championships at the

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in Munich, where she was eliminated in the heats in 2:06.34. In December, she was nominated for Radio SRF Best Talent Sport award.

2023

In early February 2023, the 18-year-old ran a Swiss U23 indoor 800 m record of 2:00.57 in Val-de-Reuil, just 0.19 s off Selina Rutz-Büchel's national senior record. This came six days after Werro had lowered Rutz-Büchel's Swiss indoor 600 m record to 1:26.14. In March, at the

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, held in Istanbul, she came through two qualifying rounds to reach the final. Werro finished fifth in a time of 2:00.91, 0.06 s away from bronze and beating sixth-placed Lore Hoffmann. In July, Werro won her second national title in the outdoor 800 m with a time of 2:01.70 at the 2023 Swiss Championships in Bellinzona. She was also the indoor champion over the 800 m for the second year in a row. The following month, she attended the European U20 Championships, held in Jerusalem, and won the gold medal in the 800 m for the second time since 2021. In August, Werro set a new 800 metres personal best at the

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meeting in Zürich, running 1:59.50. She competed at the

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in Budapest in August 2023 finishing 6th in her heat. Shortly after the World Athletics Championships, Werro broke her own national U20 record by running 1:58.13 at the Galà dei Castelli in Bellinzona.

2024

She competed in the 800 metres at the

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. She won her qualifying heat in a time of 2:01.83. In the semi-final she ran a new indoor personal best time of 2:00.16.

Achievements

Information from her World Athletics profile unless otherwise noted.

Personal bests

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– 52.69 ( Lausanne 2023) ** 400 metres indoor – 53.03 (

2022) *

600 metres The 600 metres is a rarely run middle-distance running event in track and field competitions. It is most often run at high school indoor track and field competitions. All-time top 25 *i = indoor performance *A = affected by altitude *h = ha ...

– 1:25.12 ( Langenthal 2023) ** 600 metres indoor – 1:26.14 (

2023) * 800 metres – 1:58.13 ( Bellinzona 2023) ** 800 metres indoor – 2:00.57 ( Val-de-Reuil 2023) *

1000 metres The 1000 metres is an uncommon middle-distance running event in track and field competitions. The 1000 yards, an imperial alternative, was sometimes also contested. All-time top 25 *h = hand timed *i = indoor performance *A = affected by ...

– 2:34.89 ( Nice 2023)

International competitions

National championships

References

External links

Official website
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