GENEVA (AP) — 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.

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