{"id":2858,"date":"2025-07-24T09:28:59","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T09:28:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lausanne.diamondleague.com\/audrey-werro-and-ditaji-kambundji-to-face-the-worlds-best-at-athletissima\/"},"modified":"2025-07-24T09:33:21","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T09:33:21","slug":"audrey-werro-and-ditaji-kambundji-to-face-the-worlds-best-at-athletissima","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lausanne.diamondleague.com\/en\/audrey-werro-and-ditaji-kambundji-to-face-the-worlds-best-at-athletissima\/","title":{"rendered":"Audrey Werro and Ditaji Kambundji to face the world\u2019s best at Athletissima"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Athletissima is announcing spectacular line-ups for the 100m hurdles and the women&#8217;s 800m at its 50th edition on 20 August in Lausanne. Swiss stars Ditaji Kambundji and Audrey Werro will notably face Olympic champions Masai Russell (USA) and Keely Hodgkinson (GBR). <\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p>The depth of talent in these two events will be exceptional. In the 100m hurdles, European silver medalist <strong>Ditaji Kambundji <\/strong>will go up against world record holder <strong>Tobi Amusan<\/strong> (NGR), Jamaican <strong>Ackera Nugent<\/strong> (who already has three podiums in the 2025 Wanda Diamond League), and <strong>Nadine Visser <\/strong>(NED), who finished 4th at the Paris Olympics. <strong>Masai Russell <\/strong>is currently the fastest woman of the year with a time of 12.17 seconds set in Miramar, Florida, early in the season.  <\/p>\n\n<p>This 100m hurdles race will carry the \u201cDiamond League+\u201d label in Lausanne, meaning the prize money for the winner will be doubled (to $20,000), with significantly increased payouts for the runners-up as well.<\/p>\n\n<p>The 800m will feature the two fastest athletes of the year\u2014<strong>Tsige Duguma<\/strong> (ETH) and <strong>Georgia Hunter Bell <\/strong>(GBR)\u2014along with the fifth-fastest, none other than <strong>Audrey Werro<\/strong>. The Swiss runner and Athletissima ambassador recently claimed the European U23 title in Norway in impressive fashion, leading the race from start to finish and clocking 1:57.42. <\/p>\n\n<p>These three young women will take on Olympic champion <strong>Keely Hodgkinson<\/strong>, who has yet to compete this year and whose return is highly anticipated. Also in the line-up is fellow Briton <strong>Jemma Reekie<\/strong>, a four-time winner in the WDL to date. <\/p>\n\n<p>Athletissima will take place one week before the Wanda Diamond League final in Zurich, with many qualifying spots still up for grabs in the two events announced\u2014promising fierce competition. <\/p>\n\n<p>The Lausanne organizers will unveil more star athletes in the coming weeks. As a reminder, the event will be held in front of a sold-out crowd. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Athletissima is announcing spectacular line-ups for the 100m hurdles and the women&#8217;s 800m...","protected":false},"author":82,"featured_media":2856,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"city":[],"class_list":["post-2858","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\/2858","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=2858"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lausanne.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2861,"href":"https:\/\/lausanne.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2858\/revisions\/2861"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lausanne.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lausanne.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lausanne.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lausanne.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2858"},{"taxonomy":"city","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lausanne.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/city?post=2858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}