Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Bayan wasannin Olympics, ta ziyarci Zurich don doke filin da aka yi wa taurari sama da mita 3000. Ta gama na uku a gasar cin kofin Turai ta 1985 sannan ta lashe zinare sama da mita 3000 a gasar cin kofin duniya a Canberra. A lokacin 1985, ta saukar da ta daya-mile PB zuwa 4:21.59min a Weltklasse hadu, gama na huɗu a baya Mary Decker ta duniya rikodin na 4:16.70min. Bruns ta tsawaita lambar yabo a 1986, tana fafatawa da sabon babban nesa ga mata, 10000 m, a Gasar Turai a Stuttgart kuma ta sake lashe lambar tagulla a cikin 31:19.76min, ta rasa kawai ga almara mai nisa, Ingrid Kristiansen (Norway) da Olga Bondarenko (Soviet Union). Bruns ya wakilci Jamus ta Gabas a gasar cin kofin Turai da yawa, amma bai ci nasara ba har zuwa 1987 a Prague
inda ta yi nasara a mita 3000. Ta tabbatar da kyakkyawan tsari daga baya a wannan bazarar a gasar zakarun duniya ta biyu a Rome, inda ta dauki tagulla a wasan karshe na mita 3000 kuma ta lashe lambar yabo ta karshe ta kasa da kasa.