Swiss sprint hurdler Ditaji Kambundji is fully locked in for her next major assignment ,the European Athletics Team Championships in Madrid, set to run from June 27 to 29, 2025.
In a recent Instagram post, the 23-year-old signaled her readiness. “My last training session ahead of my next race in Madrid.”
With her elder sister Mujinga Kambundji, expecting her first child and on the sidelines for this season, Ditaji enters Madrid with Quite Confidence. She is set to lit 100m Hurdles. In March, she claimed gold at the European Indoor Championships in Apeldoorn. She clocked an exceptional 7.67 seconds in the 60m hurdles final.
That performance not only secured her the title but also set a new Swiss and European U23 record, but world-leading for 2025 over the distance.
Earlier in that competition, she opened her campaign with a smooth 7.92 seconds in the preliminary rounds. She hinted at the form she would later unleash in the final. Moreover, Ditaji won a silver clocking 7.73 in the 2025 World Indoor Championships.
Kambundji, holds the Swiss national records in both sprint hurdles events. That is, 7.67s in the 60m hurdles and 12.40s in the 100m hurdles. That 12.40s clocking came last year at the 2024 European Championships in Rome, where she won a hard-earned silver medal.
In 2023, she added a bronze medal at the European Indoor Championships. Earlier that same year she captured gold at the European U23 Championships, confirming her steady rise. She also remains the 2021 European U20 champion, and was a finalist at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021.
Madrid Awaits
As she prepares to race in Madrid, Ditaji Kambundji will once again be a vital figure in Switzerland’s First Division team. The team boasts a competitive lineup across various disciplines. She will be joined by the likes of Angelica Moser in the pole vault, Audrey Werro in the 800m. Timothé Mumenthaler in the men’s 100m, and Dominic Lobalu in the men’s 5000m.
The women’s 100m hurdles is expected to be one of the most fiercely contested events in Madrid. Kambundji will go head-to-head with two of her fiercest rivals in Europe. Nadine Visser of the Netherlands and Pia Skrzyszowska of Poland. They are both former European champions.