- André Bucher
André Bucher (born
October 19 ,1976 in Neudorf, Switzerland) is a retired Swiss800 metres runner. He is mostly known for winning the gold medal at the 2001 World Championships in Edmonton in his event. Bucher also won the indoor bronze that very same year.Bucher won three European Championship silver medals in 1998, 2002 and 2002 Indoor. Other achievements include finishing third at the
2003 IAAF World Athletics Final .On August 17th 2001, Bucher posted a personal best of 1:42.55 minutes in the 800 meters. That currently stands as the 7th fastest time in history. On that race, he beat the young
Yuriy Borzakovskiy by a decent margin. The week after, Borzakovskiy would post the current 6th fastest time in history.Bucher retired in May 2007 due to a long-term heel injury. [cite news |first=Chris |last=Turner |title=2001 World Champion Bucher retires |url=http://www.iaaf.org/news/Kind=2/newsId=38688.html |work=IAAF.org |date=2007-05-13 |accessdate=2007-05-14 ]
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