{"id":2713,"date":"2025-05-11T21:02:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-11T21:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lausanne.diamondleague.com\/swiss-relay-runners-on-fire-heading-for-tokyo\/"},"modified":"2025-05-12T09:16:44","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T09:16:44","slug":"swiss-relay-runners-on-fire-heading-for-tokyo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lausanne.diamondleague.com\/en\/swiss-relay-runners-on-fire-heading-for-tokyo\/","title":{"rendered":"Swiss relay runners on fire, heading for Tokyo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Bingo for the Swiss women\u2019s 4x100m relay team! At the World Relay Championships in Guangzhou (Canton), China, Melissa Gutschmidt, C\u00e9line B\u00fcrgi, L\u00e9onie Pointet, and Emma Van Camp secured their qualification for the World Athletics Championships this September in Tokyo. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p>The quartet, coached by Kim Beytrison, recorded the 11<sup>th<\/sup> fastest time with 43.35 seconds. In an unprecedented lineup, the four young women didn\u2019t make it to the final but finished <sup>second<\/sup> in their repechage heat on Sunday, earning their ticket to Tokyo. It was a magnificent comeback after a missed first round the day before, marked by a disqualification due to a faulty baton exchange between L\u00e9onie and Emma.  <\/p>\n\n<p>Before Tokyo, C\u00e9line B\u00fcrgi and the three Vaudoises in the team (Van Camp being technically from Valais but running for Lausanne-Sports) will have a chance to shine in front of a home crowd at Athletissima on August 20, in a 4x100m race that will serve as a final rehearsal for the World Championships.<\/p>\n\n<p>Also noteworthy: the women\u2019s 4x400m team (Julia Niederberger, Salome H\u00fcsler, Karin Disch, Annina Fahr) also qualified for Tokyo, with the 14<sup>th<\/sup> best time (3:32.37), placing <sup>third<\/sup> in their repechage heat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bingo for the Swiss women\u2019s 4x100m relay team! At the World Relay Championships in Guangzhou...","protected":false},"author":82,"featured_media":2711,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"city":[],"class_list":["post-2713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lausanne-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lausanne.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lausanne.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lausanne.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lausanne.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/82"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lausanne.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2713"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lausanne.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2726,"href":"https:\/\/lausanne.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2713\/revisions\/2726"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lausanne.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lausanne.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lausanne.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lausanne.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2713"},{"taxonomy":"city","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lausanne.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/city?post=2713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}