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Chiara Scherrer
	Scherrer at the First Division 2021 European Athletics Team Championships
Personal information
Nationality	Switzerland
Born	24 January 1996 (28 years, 311 days old)
Height	168 cm (5 ft 6 in)
Weight	72 kg (159 lb)
Sport
Sport	Athletics
Event(s)	3000 metres steeplechase; 3000 metres
Club	TG Hütten
Achievements and titles
National finals	2015 Swiss Champs; • 1500m, 8th; 2017 Swiss Indoors; • 3000m, 2nd ; 2017 Swiss Champs; • 3000m s'chase, 3rd ; 2017 Swiss Champs; • 1500m, 2nd ; 2017 Swiss U23s; • 1500m, 3rd ; 2018 Swiss Indoors; • 3000m, 1st ; 2018 Swiss Champs; • 1500m, 2nd ; 2019 Swiss Champs; • 10km, road, 2nd ; 2019 Swiss Champs; • 800m, 2nd ; • 1500m, 2nd ; 2020 Swiss Champs; • 5000m, 2nd ; • 1500m, 2nd ; 2020 Swiss Champs; • 10km, road, 2nd ; 2021 Swiss Indoors; • 3000m, 1st ; 2021 Swiss Champs; • 3000m s'chase, 1st ; 2022 Swiss Champs; • 3000m s'chase, 1st ; 2022 Swiss Champs; • 1500m, 1st ; 2023 Swiss Champs; • 3000m s'chase, 1st ; 2023 Swiss Champs; • 1500m, 5th;
Personal bests	3000mSC: 9:20.28 NR (2022); 3000m sh: 9:10.33 NR (2021)
Medal record
Women's athletics
Representing Switzerland
European Team Championships First Division
	Updated on 1 January 2024

Chiara Scherrer (born 24 January 1996) 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 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 European U20 Championships in Eskilstuna, she was also eliminated with a 10:56.16 mark.^[1]

In 2017, she finished eighth at the European U23 Championships in Bydgoszcz with a time of 10:06.41.^[2]^{[permanent dead link‍]}^[1] In 2018, she placed fourth in the U23 race at the European Cross Country Championships in Tilburg.^[1] 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.^[3]^[4]

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 preliminary round and finished 13th at the European Championships in Munich with a time of 9:43.95.^[1]

Scherrer has won Swiss national championship medals in the 800 m, 1500 m, 3000 m, 3000 m steeplchase, and cross country.^[5]

Statistics

Personal bests

Event	Mark	Place	Competition	Venue	Date	Ref
3000 metres steeplechase	9:20.28 NR	5th	Paris Diamond League	Paris, France	18 June 2022	^[1]
3000 metres	9:10.33 sh NR		Swiss Indoor Athletics Championships	Macolin, Switzerland	20 February 2021	^[1]