Lausanne, Aug 20, 2026 (AFP) - Newly-crowned European champ Werro turns focus on 800m record

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2026-08-20

Newly-crowned European 800m champion Audrey Werro will turn her attention from her stunning triumph in Birmingham last week to athletics' oldest world record on home soil in Lausanne on Friday. Werro outgunned Britain's Olympic champion Keely Hodgkinson for continental gold in a championship record of 1min 54.81sec. The 22-year-old Swiss athlete has twice broken the 1:54 barrier this season, becoming the first woman to do so since 1983. That was......

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