Ramon Wipfli


Ramon Wipfli is a Swiss middle-distance runner. He has won Swiss national championship titles, and the 2023 European Athletics Team Championships, over 800 metres.

Career

He is from Bern. He won a silver medal in Jerusalem over 800 metres at the 2023 European Athletics U20 Championships behind the Czech Jakub Dudycha, who was initially disqualified and then reinstated following a protest by the Czech officials. He won the 800 metres at the 2023 European Athletics Team Championships in Poland, in a personal best 1:46.73. He became Swiss national champion over 800 metres for the first time in 2023 in Bellinzona.
In May 2024, at the Whitsun meeting in Rehlingen, Germany, Wipfli running for ST Bern) ran a 1:45.38 personal best to move to third on the Swiss all-time best list behind only former world champion André Bucher, and Markus Trinkler. In June 2024, he competed at the 2024 European Athletics Championships in Rome. Later that month, he retained his Swiss national 800 metres title.
He reached the semi-finals of the 800 metres at the 2025 European Athletics Indoor Championships with a personal best time of 1:44.92, under the championship record set in 1999 by Nils Schumann.