Werro wins 800m Ultimate Champion title — SkimNews
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- Audrey Werro won the women's 800m final, beating Great Britain's Keely Hodgkinson and Femke Broeders-Bol of the Netherlands to be crowned Ultimate Champion.
- Werro pulled clear of her rivals in the final stretch to seal what the BBC headline had billed as a close battle.
Why it matters: Werro defeated two of the most established 800m runners on the circuit — Olympic champion Hodgkinson and Dutch star Broeders-Bol — breaking through in a race that had been framed as too close to call, with the decisive final-stretch move securing the Ultimate Champion crown.
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