AUDREY MF WERRO, 1:53.98 WL

That young woman is older than Werro.

Habz ran a big PB at over 30 years old. Werro is only 22.

I can’t find the thread cuz I surely looked just now. But when Keely broke the indoor WR I posted in one of those threads that you all better keep an eye out for Werro that you can just tell by her running form and her progression that she was going to drop something huge and ultimately be better than Keely. She’s like a much more poised and dedicated athing mu. From the outside it seems she is dead set on focusing solely on running and doesn’t have the outside distractions that Mu had/has. Werro is the future of the 800m

Wow...

Between Werro, Keely, and this up and coming collegian from Arkansas, Athing is done... DONE.

Forget any storybook comeback fantasy where she rediscovers her love for the sport. She's going to need to string multiple years of world class racing and training to get back to this level. We're talking all-out, fully dedicated years of blood, sweat, and tears, one after the other. And each one of those fully dedicated seasons have to serve as a building block to the next one before she could have a shot at a global podium again. Unless all of the stars align and all of these girls get injured simultaneously. And, even if that somehow happened, there are plenty of other girls that would still make it extremely difficult: Femke, GHB, Odira. That's another full podium alone.

Werro's annual progression since 2021.

2:02.32 at 17
1:59.53 at 18 (silver medal at World Juniors)
1:58.13 at 19
1:57.76 at 20
1:55.91 at 21 (won the DL Final)
1:53.98 at 22

Looks good to me.

Thanks for Werro's 800m PB progression. This would indicate that she has improved nearly 4 seconds in 2 years with a near 2 second improvement in 2 successive years.

My eyebrow is officially raised and I think everyone else's should be too. Let's see how this plays out. Hopefully she is the real deal.

I wonder if Keely was allowed a do-over she wouldn't have gone so early. Three hundred out is a long way to go off that kind of first 400m.

No! That's the first and last time that Audrey beats Keely.

BTW, has anyone mentioned Roisin's PB?

Keely went from 2:01.16 to 1:55.88 in one year. She improved more than 7.5 seconds in two years.

Precisely my thoughts.

Aside from Keely herself, her training group, and her rabid fan club/network…I’m not sure anybody seriously considered her talent “generational,” she’s similar to Josh Kerr in that regard.

And outside of the American lens, I’m not sure Mu was even considered “generational”.

Quite frankly, once a TRUE generational talent emerges, there will literally be no doubt, no arguing otherwise…à la Lutkenhaus.

She's a full pro since not much more than a year, before that she was a student.

Well, Keely improved by over 5 secs in 2021.

Zurich?

Not even close to the same as improving from 1:55.91 to 1:53.98 but go on

You're right, they're not even close to the same. Keely's improvement was far greater.

And Keely is in the same training group as someone who's had one of the most sus progressions in middle distance running history: Georgia Hunter Bell.

I think Hodgkinson is near her ceiling, she’ll eventually break 1.54 but not by much.Weero on the other hand is just getting started; she’s a big girl and as she improves her food speed will run 1.52s.

Imagine thinking that performance is linear in that way. You have never stepped a foot on the track and it shows.