Veronica Vancardo

Veronica Vancardo
2026 European Championships
Personal information
Born (2000-09-26) 26 September 2000
Sport
SportAthletics
Event
Middle-distance running
Achievements and titles
Personal best800 m: 1:58.20 (2026)
Medal record
Women's athletics
Representing   Switzerland
World University Games
Silver medal – second place2025 Bochum800 m
Bronze medal – third place2021 Chengdu4 × 400 m relay

Veronica Vancardo (born 26 September 2000) is a Swiss middle-distance runner.[1]

Early and personal life

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]

Career

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 4 × 400 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 800 m, 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 competed in the women's 800 metres at the 2025 World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, Japan.[18][19]

In May 2026, Vancardo won over 800 metres at the Canarias Athletics Invitational in Tenerife.[20] At the Meeting International de Forbach in France later that month, she won over 800m in 2:00.30.[21] Competing at the European Championships in August, in Birmingham, England, she was a finalist in the 800 metres, placing eighth overall having ran a new personal best of 1:58.20.[22][23] Competing in the Diamond League at the 2026 Athletissima in Lausanne, Switzerland on 21 August 2026, she placed fourth with 1:58.68.[24]

References

  1. ↑ "Veronica Vancardo". World Athletics. Retrieved 28 August 2025.
  2. ↑ "Chammartin: "It took me eight years to win it"". Lagruyere.ch. 18 December 2015. Retrieved 28 August 2025.
  3. ↑ "The indoor season of… Veronica Vancardo". Athle.ch. 9 May 2021. Retrieved 28 August 2025.
  4. ↑ "Veronica Vancardo is happy in France". Frapp.ch. 27 December 2021. Retrieved 28 August 2025.
  5. 1 2 Fasel, Mattias (1 July 2025). "Die Freiburger Läuferin Veronica Vancardo ist nach harten Jahren voll zurück im Geschäft". freiburger-nachrichten.ch. Retrieved 28 August 2025.
  6. ↑ "Veronica Vancardo pour la première fois sous les 2 minutes à Kladno". Swiss Athletics. 10 June 2025. Retrieved 28 August 2025.
  7. ↑ "Veronica Vancardo and Delia Sclabas in the U20 World Cup semifinal". Swiss Athletics. 10 July 2018. Retrieved 28 August 2025.
  8. ↑ "FISU World University Games". World Athletics. 1 August 2023. Retrieved 28 August 2025.
  9. ↑ "Swiss success stories from Chengdu and Kinshasa". Swiss Athletics. 3 August 2023. Retrieved 28 August 2025.
  10. ↑ "Reunited: the 'Fair Play' duo who went viral for caring". Athletics.Africa. 26 July 2025. Retrieved 28 August 2025.
  11. ↑ Rowbottom, Mike (7 August 2023). "Swart and Vancardo win Chengdu 2021 Fair Play award for helping stricken fellow women's 800m runner". Inside the Games. Retrieved 28 August 2025.
  12. ↑ "South African and Swiss runners receive Fair Play Award". Fisu.net. 7 August 2023. Retrieved 28 August 2025.
  13. ↑ "Morgan Lake sets season's best 1.95m to defeat Angelina Topic in Athens". European Athletics. 10 June 2025. Retrieved 28 August 2025.
  14. ↑ "FISU World University Games". World Athletics. 21 July 2025. Retrieved 28 August 2025.
  15. ↑ Mills, Steven (27 July 2025). "O'Connor highlights World University Games with Irish heptathlon record". European Athletics. Retrieved 28 August 2025.
  16. ↑ "SM Frauenfeld (Day 2 Women): Audrey Werro runs into new spheres". Swiss Athletics. 24 August 2025. Retrieved 28 August 2025.
  17. ↑ Mills, Steven (24 August 2025). "Werro runs gun-to-tape 1:56.29 800m at the Swiss Championships". European Athletics. Retrieved 28 August 2025.
  18. ↑ "World Athletics Championships, Tokyo 2025". World Athletics. 21 September 2025. Retrieved 21 September 2025.
  19. ↑ "Swiss World Championship team comprises 31 athletes". Bluewin.ch. 29 August 2025. Retrieved 30 August 2025.
  20. ↑ Broadbent, Chris (28 May 2026). "Guerra and Delgado blast to home wins in Tenerife sun". European Athletics. Retrieved 29 May 2026.
  21. ↑ Broadbent, Chris (31 May 2026). "Bebendorf clocks world lead in 2000m steeplechase in Dresden". European Athletics. Retrieved 2 June 2026.
  22. ↑ Henderson, Jason (13 August 2026). "AUDREY WERRO REINSTATED AFTER DRAMATIC FALL AS KEELY HODGKINSON CRUISES INTO 800M FINAL". Athletics Weekly. Retrieved 18 August 2026.
  23. ↑ "European Athletics Championships". World Athletics. 14 August 2026. Retrieved 18 August 2026.
  24. ↑ "Results - Lausanne Diamond League 2026". Watch Athletics. 21 August 2026. Retrieved 22 August 2026.
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