{"id":740943,"date":"2026-06-16T21:19:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T21:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/740943\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T21:19:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T21:19:09","slug":"werro-wins-again-as-broeders-bol-shines-on-800m-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/740943\/","title":{"rendered":"Werro wins again as Broeders-Bol shines on 800m debut"},"content":{"rendered":"

Audrey Werro missed out on her pursuit of the long-standing women’s 800m record as two-time 400m hurdles world champion Femke Broeders-Bol impressed in her first outdoor race at the distance.<\/p>\n

Swiss athlete Werro stunned Keely Hodgkinson<\/a> two weeks ago in Stockholm by winning in a time of one minute and 53.98 seconds – the third fastest women’s 800m time ever and fastest in the world this year.<\/p>\n

The 22-year-old was looking to break the record of 1:53.28 set by Jarmila Kratochvilova in 1983 at the Ostrava Golden Spike in Czechia.<\/p>\n

She was in contention at 600m but faded slightly to win in a time of 1:54.55 – still the eighth-fastest in history.<\/p>\n

Olympic 100m champion Noah Lyles closed the night by setting a world’s best of 14.67 over the unofficial distance of 150m.<\/p>\n

The previous fastest time over the distance on a curved track was 14.92 by Jamaica’s Kishane Thompson., external<\/a><\/p>\n

Werro shone in the 800m as eight women finished inside two minutes in a stacked field.<\/p>\n

Dutch superstar Bol, 25, who married Belgian pole vaulter Ben Broeders earlier this year, finished second in 1:57.13 to become the third fastest Dutch woman over two laps.<\/p>\n

She announced last year that she was changing events.<\/p>\n

She has also been a world indoor champion in the flat 400m and is a renowned relay athlete, a gold medallist anchor leg runner with the Netherlands’ 4x400m team at Paris 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Audrey Werro missed out on her pursuit of the long-standing women’s 800m record as two-time 400m hurdles world…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":740944,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-740943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=740943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740943\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/740944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=740943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=740943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=740943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}