Zurich (AFP) – Swiss star Audrey Werro will unashamedly be the star attraction at the Zurich Diamond League meet on Thursday.
Issued on: 26/08/2026 - 11:06
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Melissa Jefferson-Wooden faces off against Julien Alfred in the women's 100m and Karsten Warholm will seek revenge over Alison Dos Santos in the men's 400m hurdles at a sell-out 25,000-capacity Letzigrund Stadium.AFP Sport looks at five events to follow:Women's 800mAfter triumphing at the European champs in Birmingham, Werro competed immediately at Lausanne, where she held off a fast-improving Femke Broeders-Bol for a win in front of an adoring Swiss crowd.More of the same can be expected in Zurich, although Werro, 22, and Broeders-Bol will be deprived of a showdown with Britain's Olympic champion Keely Hodgkinson, a late withdrawal.There will, however, be the Briton's training partner Georgia Hunter Bell, the European 1,500m champion who won Commonwealth 800m gold.A strong field is expected to once again push hard for track and field's oldest world record: the 1:53.28 set by Jarmila Kratochvilova of the then-Czechoslovakia back in 1983."The turnaround after the European championships was very short, so I had to recover quickly, and I felt more tired than usual," Werro said after winning in Lausanne.Broeders-Bol, a former two-time world 400m hurdles champion, ran a national record of 1:54.41 to finish a very close second, saying it had given her confidence "that I belong with the best. I need to trust myself, keep pushing after 500 metres, stop protecting myself too much and simply enjoy racing".Men's 800m
