Selina Büchel

Selina Büchel
Selina Büchel 2015
Full name	Selina Büchel
nation	Switzerland
birthday	26th July 1991 (age 29)
place of birth	Mosnang , Switzerland
size	168 cm
Weight	55 kg
Career
discipline	800 meter run
Best performance	800 m: 1: 57.95 min
society	KTV Bütschwil
status	active
Medal table
European Indoor Championships 2 × 0 × 0 × U23 European Championships 0 × 0 × 1 ×
European Indoor Championships gold Prague 2015 800 m gold Belgrade 2017 800 m  U23 European Championships bronze Tampere 2013 800 m
last change: June 30, 2017

Selina Büchel (born July 26, 1991 in Mosnang ) is a Swiss athlete . Her specialty is the 800 meter distance .

Athletic career

Büchel is a six-time Swiss champion and represented Switzerland at the 2014 European Championships in Zurich , where she reached the semi-finals. At the 2014 Indoor World Championships in Sopot , Poland , she won her preliminary run in a new personal indoor best of 2: 00.93 min. In the final she surprised again and finished fourth in 2: 01.06 min.

Her greatest successes to date are winning gold medals twice at the 2015 European Indoor Championships in Prague and at the 2017 European Indoor Championships in Belgrade in the 800-meter run. The winning time in Belgrade of 2: 00.38 minutes meant a new Swiss record in the hall. Previously, on July 4, 2015, she ran the Swiss record of 1: 57.95 minutes outdoors. She replaced Sandra Gasser as the record holder, who ran 1: 58.90 minutes in 1987.

Büchel came fourth at the 2016 European Championships in Amsterdam . At the 2017 World Championships in London she was eliminated in the semifinals in 1: 59.85 min. out. At the World Indoor Championships in Birmingham in 2018 , she made it to the final and finished in 6th place. At the European Championships in Berlin in 2018 , she finished seventh.

Personal best

(As of August 14, 2020)

Hall

• 400 meters: 54.28 s, February 19, 2017 in Magglingen
• 800 meters: 2: 00.38 min, March 5, 2017 in Belgrade ( Swiss record )
• 1500 meters: 4: 08.95 min, February 6, 2016 in Karlsruhe

open air

• 400 meters: 52.97 s on July 22, 2017 in Zurich
• 800 meters: 1: 57.95 min on July 4, 2015 in Paris ( Swiss record )
• 1000 meters: 2: 35.58 min on August 14, 2020 in Monaco
• 1500 meters: 4: 18.57 min, September 6, 2015 in Olten

Web links

Commons : Selina Büchel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Selina Büchel in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Official website

Individual evidence

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