Audrey Werro

Audrey Werro
Werro in 2024
Personal information
Born (2004-03-27) 27 March 2004
Home townFribourg, Switzerland
EducationCollège de Gambach
Sport
CountrySwitzerland
SportAthletics
Event(s)
400 metres, 800 metres
ClubCA Belfaux
Coached byChristiane Berset Nuoffer
Achievements and titles
Personal bests
Medal record
Women's athletics
Representing  Switzerland
World Indoor Championships
2026 Toruń 800 m
European U23 Championships
2025 Bergen 800 m
World U20 Championships
2022 Cali 800 m
European U20 Championships
2021 Tallinn 800 m
2023 Jerusalem 800 m

Audrey Werro (born 27 March 2004)[1] is a Swiss track and field athlete. She won the silver medal in the 800 metres at the 2026 World Indoor Championships and the gold medal at the 2025 European U23 Championships having previously won the silver medal 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 senior level as well as the U18 and U20 levels. She has ran the third quickest time in history with 1:53.98 set in Stockholm in 2026, and also has the fifth fastest time for the distance indoors.

Early life

Audrey Werro was born on 27 March 2004 to a Swiss father, Claude, and an Ivorian mother, Philomène. She has a sister and two brothers.[2] She is from Fribourg, in west Switzerland, and studied at nearby Gambach College.[3][4][5][6][7]

Werro began athletics at the age of nine. She joined Club Athlétique Belfaux, and was coached by Christiane Berset Nuoffer, who continued as her coach into her professional career.[8]

Career

2021

In June 2021, at age 17, Werro was runner-up in the 800 metres at the Swiss Championships, running 2:02.88 to finish behind champion Lore Hoffmann.[9] She set new national U18 records over the 400 and 800 metres that year.[10] In July, she won the gold medal in the 800 m at the European Under-20 Championships held in Tallinn, Estonia, competing against athletes up to two years her senior.[11]

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 Magglingen.[12] She next became the national indoor champion over the 800 m, running 2:04.95 also in Magglingen.[1] In June, she broke the Swiss U20 and U23 records in the outdoor event, previously held by Delia Sclabas (2:01.29), with a time of 2:00:28 in Geneva.[13] The same month, Werro also won the Swiss 800 m outdoor title, clocking 2:02.72 in Zürich.[14]

In August, she won the silver medal in the event at the World U20 Championships held in Cali, Colombia with an U23 national record of 1:59.53, behind Roisin Willis for whom it was also the first time she ran sub-two minutes in an 800 m race.[15][16] The same month, Werro made her debut in the senior championships at the European Championships in Munich, where she was eliminated in the heats in 2:06.34.[1] In December, she was nominated for Radio SRF Best Talent Sport award.[17]

2023

In early February, aged 18 years, Werro 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.[18] This came six days after Werro had lowered Rutz-Büchel's Swiss indoor 600 m record to 1:26.14.[19] In March, at the European Indoor Championships, held in Istanbul, she finished fifth in the 800 m final in a time of 2:00.91, 0.06 s away from bronze.[20]

In July, Werro won her second national title in the outdoor 800 m with a time of 2:01.70 at the Swiss Championships in Bellinzona. She was also the indoor champion over the 800 m for the second year in a row.[21] 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.[22][23][24]

In August, Werro set a new 800 metres personal best at the Diamond League meeting in Zürich, running 1:59.50.[25] She competed at the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest in August 2023 finishing 6th in her heat.[26] 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.[27]

2024

She competed in the 800 metres at the World Indoor Championships. 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.[28]

She competed in the 800 metres at the Summer Olympics in Paris in August, being eliminated in the repechage round.[29] She set a new Swiss national record time of 1:57.76 for the 800 metres in Bellinzona in September.[30]

2025

She was the fastest qualifier for the 800 metres final at the European Indoor Championships in Apeldoorn, Netherlands.[31] However, in the final she clashed with eventual medalist Anita Horvat and fell to the floor with the race carrying on ahead of her.[32] She reached the final of the 800 metres at the World Indoor Championships in Nanjing.[33] In the final, she ran a personal best and Swiss national indoor record of 1:59.81 to finish in fourth place, 0.01 seconds behind bronze medal winner Patricia Silva of Portugal.[34]

In May 2025, she ran a new 800 metres national record of 1:57.25 at the World Athletics Continental Tour Gold meeting in Bydgoszcz.[35] She placed fourth in the 800 metres in June in Stockholm at the BAUHAUS-galan event, part of the Diamond League.[36] She ran a 2:34.88 personal best over 1000 metres in Monaco at the Herculis.[37] She ran a championship record of 1:57.42 to win the gold medal in the 800 metres at the European U23 Championships in Bergen, Norway.[38] The following month, she finished runner-up to Keely Hodgkinson over 800m in 1:57.34 at the Athletissima event in Lausanne and lowered her personal best to 1:56.29 in winning the Swiss Championships.[39][40] She ran an 800 m personal best 1:55.91 to win the Diamond League Final in Zurich ahead of Georgia Hunter Bell on 28 August.[41]

In September, she was a finalist in the women's 800 metres at the World Championships in Tokyo, Japan, placing sixth in a time of 1:56.17.[42]

2026

Werro opened her 2026 indoor season at the Meeting de l’Eure in Val-de-Reuil, a World Athletics Indoor Tour Silver meeting on 1 February, winning over 800m in 1:57.49, taking more than two seconds off her own national indoor record. A few days later she moved to eighth on the world all-time list with 1:57.27 in Belgrade.[43][44] On 19 February, she was runner up in Liévin, as Keely Hodgkinson set a new indoor 800m world record.[45] Werro won the Swiss Indoor Championships over 800 metres on 1 March 2026, running 1:57.98 in the final.[46] Competing in the 800 metres at the World Indoor Championships in Toruń, Poland, in March, Werro won her semi-final in 1:59.27, before winning the silver medal behind Hodgkinson in the final in 1:56.64, moving to fifth on the world all-time indoor list.[47][48]

On 31 May, she ran a meeting record of 1:56.56 to win the 800 metres at the Diamond League in Rabat.[49] On 7 June, at the Stockholm Diamond League, Werro defeated Keely Hodgkinson in the 800 metres in a new Swiss record of 1:53.98. This was the third fastest time in history, and the fastest for 43 years.[50] On 16 June, Werro won ahead of Femke Bol in 1:54.45 at the Golden Spike meeting in Ostrava.[51] She is now the only woman ever to have run the 800m in under 1:54.50 twice and alongside Caster Semenya holds 2 of the top 10 800m performances of all-time.[52]

Achievements

Information from her World Athletics profile unless otherwise noted.

Personal bests

International competitions

Representing  Switzerland
Year Competition Venue Position Event Time Notes
2021 European U20 Championships Tallinn, Estonia 1st 800 m 2:03.12 PB
2022 World U20 Championships Cali, Colombia 2nd 800 m 1:59.53 NU20R
European Championships Munich, Germany 28th (h) 800 m 2:06.34
2023 European Indoor Championships Istanbul, Turkey 5th 800 m i 2:00.91
European Team Championships First Division Chorzów, Poland 1st 800 m 1:59:95
European U20 Championships Jerusalem, Israel 1st 800 m 2:03.38
World Championships Budapest, Hungary 34th (h) 800 m 2:01.03
2024 World Indoor Championships Glasgow, United Kingdom 10th (sf) 800 m 2:00.16
Olympic Games Paris, France 11th (rep) 800 m 2:00.62
2025 European Indoor Championships Apeldoorn, Netherlands 6th 800 m 2:27.37
World Indoor Championships Nanjing, China 4th 800 m 1:59.81
European U23 Championships Bergen, Norway 1st 800 m 1:57.42
7th 4 × 400 m relay 3:31.38
World Championships Tokyo, Japan 6th 800 m 1:56.17
2026 World Indoor Championships Toruń, Poland 2nd 800 m 1:56.64

National championships

Year Competition Venue Position Event Time Notes
2018 Swiss U16 Championships Frauenfeld 1st 600 m 1:35.07
2019 Swiss U16 Championships Düdingen 1st 600 m 1:31.59
2020 Swiss U18 Championships Lausanne 1st 800 m 2:09.06
2021 Swiss Indoor Championships Magglingen 5th 800 m 2:07.95
Swiss Championships Langenthal 2nd 800 m 2:02.88
Swiss U18 Championships Winterthur 3rd 200 m 24.42
2022 Swiss Indoor Championships Magglingen 1st 800 m 2:04.95
Swiss Championships Zürich 1st 800 m 2:02.88
Swiss U20 Championships Geneva 6th 200 m 24.20
2023 Swiss Indoor Championships St. Gallen 1st 800 m 2:02.87
Swiss Championships Bellinzona 1st 800 m 2:01.70
Swiss U20 Championships Lausanne 1st 400 m 52.69
2024 Swiss Indoor Championships St. Gallen 1st 800 m 2:01.76
Swiss Championships Winterthur 2nd 800 m 1:58.67
Swiss U23 Championships Langenthal 1st 400 m 52.73
2025 Swiss Indoor Championships St. Gallen 1st 800 m 2:01.13
Swiss Championships Frauenfeld 1st 800 m 1:56.29 NR

See also

References

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