Audrey Werro runs third fastest women’s 800m at Paris Diamond League

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Swiss youngster runs 1:53.28 – the third fastest ever Trayvon Bromell shocks Noah Lyles in men’s 100m The oldest world record in track and field history stretches all the way back to 25 July 1983 – to the same week, in fact, that Elton John’s I’m Still Standing was released in the UK. But this increasingly looks like the year that Jarmila Kratochvilova’s imposing women’s 800m record may finally tumble. Britain’s Olympic champion Keely Hodgkinson reckons she can break Kratochvilova’s record time of 1min 53.28sec in London next month. The trouble she faces is that the brilliant 22-year-old Swiss star Audrey Werro has pushed ahead in the race to achieve the two-lap equivalent of landing on the moon. Continue reading...

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Emerging track star Audrey Werro is racing closer and closer to winning a duel with Olympic 800-meters champion Keely Hodgkinson to break the sport’s oldest world record. On Sunday, for the second time this month, the 22-year-old Swiss ran the third-fastest time in history — 1 minute, 53:80 seconds in Paris that was the best since 1983. Werro celebrated with her trademark roar with hands raised like claws, a gesture she has said was inspired by her father urging her to be less shy in races and more like a lion.