Géraldine Di Tizio-Frey

Géraldine Di Tizio-Frey
Personal information
NationalitySwiss
BornGéraldine Frey
(1997-06-19) 19 June 1997
Zug, Switzerland
Height172 cm (5 ft 8 in)
Sport
CountrySwitzerland
SportTrack and Field
Events
60 m, 100 m, 200 m
ClubLK Zug
Coached byPatrick Saile (since 2026), Lucio Di Tizio (2016-2026)
Achievements and titles
Personal bests
Medal record
Women's athletics
Representing  Switzerland
European Championships
Silver medal – second place2026 Birmingham4×100 m relay
European Athletics Team Championships
Silver medal – second place2021 Cluj-Napoca4 × 100 m relay
European U23 Championships
Bronze medal – third place2017 Bydgoszcz4 × 100 m relay

Géraldine Di Tizio-Frey (née Frey; born 19 June 1997) is a Swiss track and field athlete. She has won Swiss national titles over 100 metres, 200 metres and indoors over 60 metres, and has competed at multiple major championships, including the 2024 Olympic Games.

Early life

From Unterägeri in the Swiss canton of Zug, she moved to Zürich to study pharmacy at ETH Zurich. She trained with Lucio Di Tizio and since 2026 has been working with Swiss National Coach Patrick Saile.[1]

Career

Frey was part of the Swiss team that won the bronze medal at the 2017 European Athletics U23 Championships in Bydgoszcz, Poland in the women's 4 × 100 m relay. She also competed in 2015 and 2019 at the European U23 Championships. [2]

In January 2022, Frey ran 7.60 seconds for the 60 metres in St Gallen to qualify for the 2022 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Belgrade.[3] She ran a personal best time of 7.11 seconds for the 60 metres to qualify for the semi-final.[4] Frey won the 2022 Swiss National Championships over 200 metres, at the Letzigrund in Zürich. In doing so, Frey ran a new personal best time of 23.12 seconds.[5] Frey was part of the Swiss relay team that finished seventh at the 2022 World Athletics Championships in the 4 × 100 m relay final.[6] She was selected for the 100 metres at the 2022 European Athletics Championships in Munich.[7] She ran 11.45 seconds in her heat to qualify for the semi-finals.[8] Selected for the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest, Frey qualified for the semi-final of the women's 100 metres.[9]

In March 2024, Frey reached the semi-finals of the women's 60 metres at the 2024 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Glasgow.[10] That spring, Frey ran as part of the Swiss 4 × 100 m relay team which qualified for the 2024 Paris Olympics at the 2024 World Relays Championships in Nassau, Bahamas.[11] She was selected for the 2024 European Athletics Championships in Rome in June 2024.[12] She competed in the 100 metres at the 2024 Paris Olympics.[13]

Frey reached the semi-finals of the 60 metres at the 2025 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Nanjing, China, in March 2025.[14] On 13 August 2025, Frey ran a new 100 m personal best of 11.09 s at the Fribourg International Meeting, becoming the fourth fastest Swiss woman in history.[15] In September, she was a semi-finalist in the 100 metres at the 2025 World Championships in Tokyo, Japan.[16] She also ran in the women's 4 × 100 metres relay at the championships.[17]

On 1 March 2026, she placed third at the Swiss Indoor Championships over 60 metres, running 7.16 seconds in the final.[18] Later that summer, she ran a new personal hest for the 100 metres of 10.98 seconds at the Meeting de la Gruyère in Bulle.[19] Now running under her married name Géraldine Di Tizio-Frey, on 25 July 2026 won the Swiss 100 metres title in Zurich in 10.96 seconds, moving into the European-lead for the season.[20] The time improved on her previous personal best of 10.98 seconds, which she had set two weeks earlier in Bulle. At the same meeting in Bulle, she had recorded a faster time of 10.91 seconds; however, the performance was not eligible for official record purposes because the tailwind of 3.0 m/s exceeded the permitted limit of 2.0 m/s.[21] Competing at the 2026 European Championships in Birmingham, England, the following month, she placed fourth with a time of 11.07 seconds in the final of the 100 metres, 0.01 behind the bronze medal winner Delphine Nkansa of Belgium.[22] In the semi-final, she clocked 11.02 seconds, the second-fastest time at the European Championships. Her European season's best time remained untouched.[23] On 15 August 2026 she ran the first leg and won a silver medal with the 4 × 100 m relay at those same European Championships. With a time of 43.12 seconds it was the first international relay medal for the Swiss team.[24]

Achievements

Information from her World Athletics profile unless otherwise noted.

International competitions

YearCompetitionVenuePositionEventTimeNotes
Representing  Switzerland
2015 European U20 Championships Eskilstuna, Sweden 5th (h) 4 × 100 m relay 45.89
2017 European U23 Championships Bydgoszcz, Poland 25th (h) 100 m 12.12
3rd 4 × 100 m relay 44.07
2019 European U23 Championships Gävle, Sweden 8th (sf) 100 m 11.79
8th 4 × 100 m relay 45.64
2021 European Team Championships First League Cluj-Napoca, Romania 2nd 4 × 100 m relay 43.73
2022 World Indoor Championships Belgrade, Serbia 9th (sf) 60 m 7.15
World Championships Eugene, OR, United States 34th (h) 100 m 11.30
7th 4 × 100 m relay 42.81
European Championships Munich, Germany 10th (sf) 100 m 11.38
9th (h) 4 × 100 m relay 43.93
2023 European Team Championships First Division Chorzów, Poland 5th 100 m 11.26
13th 200 m 23.57
11th 4 × 100 m relay 43.39
World Championships Budapest, Hungary 24th (sf) 100 m 11.28
— (f) 4 × 100 m relay DQ
2024 World Indoor Championships Glasgow, United Kingdom 12th (sf) 60 m 7.16
European Championships Rome, Italy 16th (sf) 100 m 11.29
5th (h) 4 × 100 m relay 42.761
Olympic Games Paris, France 38th (h) 100 m 11.34
2025 European Indoor Championships Apeldoorn, Netherlands 9th (sf) 60 m 7.13
World Indoor Championships Nanjing, China 13th (sf) 60 m 7.24
World Championships Tokyo, Japan 23rd (sf) 100 m 11.34
– 4 × 100 m relay DNF

1Disqualified in the final

2026 European Chmapionships Birmingham, United Kingdom 4th 100 m 11.07
2nd 4 × 100 m relay 43.15

Circuit wins and titles

(4 × 100 metres relay wins, other events specified in parentheses)

National titles

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Géraldine Di Tizio-Frey". Personal Website. Retrieved 16 August 2026.
  2. ↑ "Géraldine Frey is this winter's most promising sprinter". Zug4you.ch. 18 March 2023. Retrieved 20 August 2023.
  3. ↑ "Géraldine Frey fulfills World Indoor Championship limits in St. Gallen". Swiss-Athletics. 23 January 2022. Retrieved 20 August 2023.
  4. ↑ "Géraldine Frey und Bossard, eine starke Verbindung". Bossard. 20 October 2022. Retrieved 21 August 2023.
  5. ↑ "Swiss champion over 200 metres". Zug4you.ch.
  6. ↑ "Géraldine FREY". european-athletics.com.
  7. ↑ "The wild week of sprint hope Géraldine Frey". blick.ch. 12 August 2022. Retrieved 21 August 2023.
  8. ↑ "Athletics: Ditaji Kambundji in bronze in 100m hurdles". tdg.ch. 12 August 2022. Retrieved 20 August 2023.
  9. ↑ "Women's 100m Results: World Athletics Championships 2023". Watch Athletics. 21 August 2023. Retrieved 21 August 2023.
  10. ↑ "Women's 60m Results - World Athletics Indoor Championships 2024". Watch Athletics. 2 March 2024. Retrieved 2 March 2024.
  11. ↑ "Women 4x100m Results - World Athletics Relays Championships 2024". World Athletics. 5 May 2024. Retrieved 12 May 2024.
  12. ↑ "60-köpfige Rekorddelegation an der EM in Rom". Swiss Athletics. 29 May 2024. Retrieved 4 June 2024.
  13. ↑ "Women's 100 Metres - Paris Olympic Games 2024 Athletics". Watch Athletics. 3 August 2024. Retrieved 28 December 2024.
  14. ↑ "Jamaica's Williams, Antigua & Barbuda's Lloyd impress in women's 60m heats at World Indoor Championships". SportsMax. 21 March 2025. Retrieved 22 March 2025.
  15. ↑ "Géraldine Frey runs a top time". zug4you.ch. 19 August 2025. Retrieved 29 May 2026.
  16. ↑ "World Athletics Championships, Tokyo 2025". World Athletics. 18 September 2025. Retrieved 29 September 2025.
  17. ↑ "World Athletics Championships, Tokyo 2025". World Athletics. 18 September 2025. Retrieved 29 September 2025.
  18. ↑ "Swiss Indoor Championships". World Athletics. 1 March 2026. Retrieved 3 March 2026.
  19. ↑ "Meeting de la Gruyère". World Athletics. 11 July 2026. Retrieved 17 July 2026.
  20. ↑ "Géraldine Di Tizio-Frey Is Now Europe's No. 1 in the 100-meter dash". bluewin.ch. Retrieved 25 July 2026.
  21. ↑ "Géraldine Di Tizio-Frey Becomes the Fourth Swiss Woman to Run Under 11 Seconds". bluewin.ch. Retrieved 25 July 2026.
  22. ↑ Broadbent, Chris (10 August 2026). "Amy Hunt powers to 100m gold". European Athletics. Retrieved 10 August 2026.
  23. ↑ "Di Tizio-Frey nach Rang 4 - «Ich hatte mich eigentlich schon gefreut, aber dann ...»". Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen (SRF) (in German). Retrieved 12 August 2026.
  24. ↑ "LA-EM: 4x100-m-Staffel - Silber, Schweizerinnen holen historische Staffelmedaille" (in German). Retrieved 16 August 2026.
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