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Nationality | Swiss | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Mettendorf TG | 11 April 1995||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Education | Thurgau University of Education | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Website | catherinedebrunner | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Disability class | T53 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Coached by | Arno Mul (2020 - present) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Catherine Debrunner (born 11 April 1995) is a Swiss athlete. Before she turned to fulltime athlete in 2022 she was also a part time teacher.
She has competed for Team Switzerland at the 2013 IPC Athletics World Championships, the 2015 IPC Athletics World Championships and at the 2019 World Para Athletics Championships where she won her first global gold medal. In 2023 she competed in the 2023 World Para Athletics Championships where she won 4 gold and 1 silver medal. [1]
In the World Marathon Majors she has won 6 of the 7 marathons she started and set new course records at the Berlin Marathon, 2023 Chicago Marathon, 2023 London Marathon and the New York City Marathon.
She currently holds the world records in the 100m (T53), 200m (T53), 400m (T53), 800m (T53), 5000m (T53/T54) and the marathon (T53/T54). [2]
Debrunner was born on 11 April 1995 in Mettendorf, Switzerland. [3] Due to a birth defect in her spine, she uses a wheelchair. [4] While attending a sports camp in Nottwil, she met Paul Odermatt who coached her from 2005 until 2020. [5]
Since mid 2020 she is coached by Arno Mul. [6]
Debrunner competed in the T53 200 metres at the 2015 IPC Athletics World Championships, where she earned a silver medal with a time of 30.64. [7] She qualified for the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio, [8] where she finished seventh in the Women's 400 metres. [9] Debrunner subsequently took a break from sports to focus on her education before returning to Team Switzerland for the 2019 World Para Athletics Championships. [10] In Dubai, she earned a gold medal in the Women's 400m T53 [11] and a silver medal in the women's 800m T53 race. [12]
In 2023 she competed in the 2023 World Para Athletics Championships in Paris. She won the 400m, 800m, 1500m and 5000m. In the 100m she came in second behind Samantha Kinghorn. [13]
At the 2022 Berlin Marathon, Debrunner, competing in her first marathon won the race with a time of 1:36:47, breaking five-time winner Manuela Schär's streak of five Berlin Marathon wins [14] setting a course record while doing this. She also won the 2022 London Marathon a week later with a time of 1:38:24, which is a course record.
After the 2023 World Para Athletics Championships, Debrunner set a world record at the Berlin Marathon with a time of 1:34:16 [15] and made her U.S. race debut in the 2023 Chicago Marathon in October. During the Chicago marathon, Debrunner set a new course record with a time of 1:38:44. [16] She also broke the course record while winning the 2023 New York City Marathon finishing in 1:39:32. [17]
After these 4 wins she was crowned Abbott World Majors Marathon Champion of 2023. [18]
In 2024 she won the 2024 London Marathon. [19]
In May 2023, Debrunner was awarded the Laureus World Sports Award for Sportsperson of the Year with a Disability. [20]
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