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| Born | 26 September 2000 | |||||||||||||||||
| Sport | ||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Athletics | |||||||||||||||||
| Event | Middle-distance running | |||||||||||||||||
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| Personal best | 800 m: 1:59.10 (2025) | |||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Veronica Vancardo (born 26 September 2000) is a Swiss middle-distance runner. [1]
She is from Fribourg in the Sarine District of Switzerland. [2] [3] She was educated at Collège Saint-Michel in Fribourg. After college she spent time training in Lyon, France. She later studied law at a Swiss distance university. [4] [5]
She runs as a member of CA Fribourg having previously been a member of TSV Düdingen. She competed over 400 metres before later transitioning to 800 metres. [5] [6] She represented Switzerland at the 2018 World Athletics U20 Championships in Tampere, Finland, where she was a semi-finalist over 400 metres. [7]
She won the bronze medal at the delayed 2021 Summer University Games in Chengdu, China, in August 2023 in the women's 4x400 metres relay. [8] At the games, she also placed sixth in 2:07.13 minutes in the 800 metres in her first international individual final. [9] However, her performance also included by a gesture of compassion after she crossed the line when, with South African bronze medalist Charne Swart, she raced back to help the final finisher, Soudi-Thasmy Moussa of Comoros, who had collapsed on the track and helped her to her feet, both earning a special Fair Play award for their actions. [10] [11] [12]
In June 2025, competing in Kladno, Czechia, Vancardo went below two minutes for the first time in the 800m, running 1:59.81 to take 1.55 seconds from her previous personal best set just a month prior. [13] She won the silver medal over 800 metres of at the 2025 Summer World University Games in Bochum, Germany in 2:00.08. [14] [15]
She finished third over 800 metres at the Swiss Athletics Championships in August 2025, behind Audrey Werro and Lore Hoffmann, in a new personal best time of 1:59.10. [16] [17] She was selected for the Swiss team for the 2025 World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, Japan. [18]
