{"id":37539,"date":"2025-03-09T23:00:19","date_gmt":"2025-03-09T22:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/athletissima.ch\/?p=37539"},"modified":"2025-03-10T10:51:36","modified_gmt":"2025-03-10T09:51:36","slug":"mujinga-kambundji-one-hundredth-of-a-second-away-from-a-new-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/athletissima.ch\/en\/mujinga-kambundji-one-hundredth-of-a-second-away-from-a-new-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Mujinga Kambundji one hundredth of a second away from a new title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Another beautiful medal for Switzerland at the European Indoor Championships in Apeldoorn (NL). Mujinga Kambundji, the defending champion, won silver in the 60m, edged out by just one hundredth of a second by Italy\u2019s Zaynab Dosso. With five medals in four days, Swiss athletics has shone like never before.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Mujinga Kambundji<\/strong> recorded the third-fastest time of her career, at 7.02 seconds. It was a strong race, despite a less explosive start than usual. The longevity of the Bernese sprinter is exceptional; she has thrilled the crowd at Athletissima for over a dozen years. Her podium finish in the Netherlands \u2013 her fifth in a major continental championship \u2013 will further enhance her role as an ambassador for our meeting. Worth noting is the performance of <strong>Emma van Camp<\/strong> from Lausanne-Sports, who reached the semifinals at just 20 years old.<\/p>\n<p>Switzerland almost celebrated a second medal on Sunday. Unfortunately, <strong>Audrey Werro<\/strong>, who had made a strong impression in the heats and semifinals, fell 150m from the finish line in the 800m, just as she was moving up through the pack to contend for a medal. The 20-year-old from Fribourg, jostled from the start, paid dearly for her difficulty in finding space for her long and beautiful stride in the confined indoor track. Another regular at Athletissima, <strong>Rachel Pellaud<\/strong> from Biel, took a promising fifth place.<\/p>\n<p>The Swiss team leaves Apeldoorn with five medals in their bag, including two golds by <strong>Ditaji Kambundj<\/strong>i (60m hurdles) and <strong>Angelica Moser<\/strong> (pole vault). These are joined by silver medals from Mujinga Kambundji, <strong>Simon Ehammer<\/strong> (heptathlon), and <strong>Annik K\u00e4lin<\/strong> (long jump). Never before had Switzerland achieved such a medal haul at a European Indoor Championship.<\/p>\n<p>The cherry on top: <strong>Ditaji Kambundji<\/strong> set a European record on Friday, just 0.02 seconds shy of the world record\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another beautiful medal for Switzerland at the European Indoor Championships in Apeldoorn (NL). Mujinga Kambundji, the defending champion, won silver in the 60m, edged out by just one hundredth of a second by Italy\u2019s Zaynab Dosso. With five medals in four days, Swiss athletics has shone like never before. Mujinga Kambundji recorded the third-fastest time [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37535,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-non-classifiee"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/athletissima.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/athletissima.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/athletissima.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/athletissima.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/athletissima.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37539"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/athletissima.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37540,"href":"https:\/\/athletissima.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37539\/revisions\/37540"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/athletissima.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/athletissima.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/athletissima.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/athletissima.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}