Chiara Scherrer
Chiara Scherrer is a Swiss steeplechase runner. She is a four-time Swiss Athletics Championships winner outdoors and two-time Swiss [Indoor Athletics Championships] winner, and she is the all-time Swiss record-holder in the 5K run, 2000 m steeplechase, 3000 m steeplechase, and indoor 3000 m.
Career
Scherrer first gained international experience in 2014 at the 2014 [World Junior Championships in Athletics|World U20 Championships] in Eugene, where she was eliminated in the preliminary round with a time of 11:05.00. The following year at the 2015 [European Athletics Junior Championships|European U20 Championships] in Eskilstuna, she was also eliminated with a 10:56.16 mark.In 2017, she finished eighth at the European U23 Championships in Bydgoszcz with a time of 10:06.41. In 2018, she placed fourth in the U23 race at the 2018 European [Cross Country Championships|European Cross Country Championships] in Tilburg. She gained her first senior international experience later in 2018 at the European Championships in Berlin, where she was eliminated in the preliminary round with a time of 9:47.46. The following year, she finished fourth at the Summer Universiade in Naples with a time of 9:47.38.
In 2021, she won the Spitzen Leichtathletik Luzern meeting with a time of 9:40.30, and subsequently finished 59th at the European Cross Country Championships in Dublin. The following year, she improved the Swiss record in the 3000 m steeplechase to 9:20.28 at the Paris Diamond League, shortly before finishing third at the BAUHAUS-galan in Stockholm. She was then eliminated in the preliminary round of the 2022 [World Championships in Athletics] with a 9:22.15 clocking in the 2022 [World Athletics Championships – Women's 3000 metres steeplechase|preliminary round] and finished 13th at the European Championships in Munich with a time of 9:43.95.
Scherrer has won Swiss national championship medals in the 800 m, 1500 m, 3000 m, 3000 m steeplchase, and cross country.