Géraldine Frey

Géraldine Frey

Frey in 2017
Personal information
Nationality	Swiss
Born	(1997-06-19) 19 June 1997 (age 27) Zug, Switzerland
Sport
Country	Switzerland
Sport	Track and Field
Event(s)	100m, 200m
Club	LC Zürich
Coached by	Rita Schönenberger
Achievements and titles
Personal best	100 m: 11.18 (Langenthal 2023) 200 m: 23.12 (Zürich 2022)
Medal record Women's athletics Representing  Switzerland European Athletics Team Championships 2021 Cluj-Napoca 4 x 100 m relay European U23 Championships 2017 Bydgoszcz 4 x 100 m relay

Géraldine Frey (born 19 June 1997) is a Swiss track and field athlete. In 2022, she became the Swiss national champion over 200 metres.

Early life

From Oberägeri in the Swiss canton of Zug, she moved to Zürich to study pharmacy at ETH Zurich and joined and Rita Schönenberger's training group at LC Zürich. Frey was part of the Swiss team that won bronze at the 2017 European Athletics U23 Championships in Bydgoszcz, Poland in the 4x100m relay, and also competed in 2015 and 2019.^[1]

Career

In January 2022, Frey ran 7.60 seconds for the 60 metres in St Gallen to qualify for the 2022 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Belgrade.^[2] She ran a personal best time of 7.11 seconds for the 60 metres to qualify for the semi-final.^[3]

Frey won the 2022 Swiss National Championships over 200 metres, at the Letzigrund in Zürich. In doing so, Frey ran a new personal best time of 23.12 seconds.^[4] Frey was part of the Swiss relay team that finished seventh at the 2022 World Athletics Championships in the 4 × 100 m relay final.^[5]

She was selected for the 100 metres at the 2022 European Athletics Championships in Munich.^[6] She ran 11.45 seconds in her heat to qualify for the semi-finals.^[7]

Selected for the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest, she qualified for the semi-final of the 100 metres.^[8]

She reached the semi-finals of the women's 60 metres at the 2024 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Glasgow.^[9]

She ran as part of the Swiss 4x100m relay team which qualified for the 2024 Paris Olympics at the 2024 World Relays Championships in Nassau, Bahamas.^[10] She was selected for the 2024 European Athletics Championships in Rome in June 2024.^[11]

Achievements

Information from her World Athletics profile unless otherwise noted.

International competitions

Year	Competition	Venue	Position	Event	Time	Notes
Representing  Switzerland
2015	European U20 Championships	Eskilstuna, Sweden	5th (h)	4 x 100 m relay	45.89
2017	European U23 Championships	Bydgoszcz, Poland	25th (h)	100 m	12.12
			3rd	4 x 100 m relay	44.07
2019	European U23 Championships	Gävle, Sweden	8th (sf)	100 m	11.79
			8th	4 x 100 m relay	45.64
2021	European Team Championships First League	Cluj-Napoca, Romania	2nd	4 x 100 m relay	43.73
2022	World Indoor Championships	Belgrade, Serbia	9th (sf)	60 m	7.15
	World Championships	Eugene, OR, United States	34th (h)	100 m	11.30
			7th	4 x 100 m relay	42.81
	European Championships	Munich, Germany	10th (sf)	100 m	11.38
			9th (h)	4 x 100 m relay	43.93
2023	European Team Championships First Division	Chorzów, Poland	5th	100 m	11.26
			13th	200 m	23.57
			11th	4 x 100 m relay	43.39
	World Championships	Budapest, Hungary	24th (sf)	100 m	11.28
			— (f)	4 x 100 m relay	DQ
2024	World Indoor Championships	Glasgow, United Kingdom	12th (sf)	60 m	7.16
	European Championships	Rome, Italy	16th (sf)	100 m	11.29
			5th (h)	4 × 100 m relay	42.76^1
	Olympic Games	Paris, France	38th (h)	100 m	11.34

¹Disqualified in the final

Circuit wins and titles

• Diamond League

(4 x 100 metres relay wins, other events specified in parentheses)

• 2022 (2): Stockholm Bauhaus-Galan (MR), Lausanne Athletissima

National titles

• Swiss Championships
  • 200 metres: 2022

See also

• List of Swiss records in athletics

References

1. "Géraldine Frey is this winter's most promising sprinter". Zug4you.ch. 18 March 2023. Retrieved 20 August 2023.
2. "Géraldine Frey fulfills World Indoor Championship limits in St. Gallen". Swiss-Athletics. 23 January 2022. Retrieved 20 August 2023.
3. "Géraldine Frey und Bossard, eine starke Verbindung". Bossard. 20 October 2022. Retrieved 21 August 2023.
4. "Swiss champion over 200 metres". Zug4you.ch.
5. "Géraldine FREY". european-athletics.com.
6. "The wild week of sprint hope Géraldine Frey". blick.ch. 12 August 2022. Retrieved 21 August 2023.
7. "Athletics: Ditaji Kambundji in bronze in 100m hurdles". tdg.ch. 12 August 2022. Retrieved 20 August 2023.
8. "Women's 100m Results: World Athletics Championships 2023". Watch Athletics. 21 August 2023. Retrieved 21 August 2023.
9. "Women's 60m Results - World Athletics Indoor Championships 2024". Watch Athletics. 2 March 2024. Retrieved 2 March 2024.
10. "Women 4x100m Results - World Athletics Relays Championships 2024". World Athletics. 5 May 2024. Retrieved 12 May 2024.
11. "60-köpfige Rekorddelegation an der EM in Rom". Swiss Athletics. 29 May 2024. Retrieved 4 June 2024.

External links

• Géraldine Frey at World Athletics
• Géraldine Frey at Olympics.com