Femke Bol
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in the NetherlandsFemke Bol is a Dutch track and field athlete who competes in sprinting, middle-distance running, and hurdling. Up to 2025, she specialized in the 400 metres hurdles, where she is the 2023 and 2025 World Champion, and in the 400 metres, where she is the 2024 World Indoor Champion and the short track world record holder.
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19-year-old Bol during the 400 m hurdles at the 2019 World Championships in Doha
Bol set her first senior Dutch record at the National Sports Centre on 18 July 2020.
Bol during the 400 metres at the 2021 European Team Championships, where she won and set one of her eleven Dutch records from 2021.
Bol hurdles in the semi-final at the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games during heavy rain.
Bol (second from the left) at the 2022 World Indoors in Belgrade, where she finished second in the 400 m.
After her Olympic bronze in 2021, Bol went one better in the 400 m hurdles at the 2022 World Championships in Eugene.
On 19 February 2023, Bol set a world indoor 400 m record, breaking the longest-standing track world record.In their own words 3
I’d been feeling great in training and that I could not only run 51 but do it in my last competition before Budapest is great.
Euan Crumley, Big changes help brilliant Femke Bol demolish European record, Athletics Weekly, July 23, 2023.
Changing my stride pattern is one of the biggest changes I will make in my career. I like the challenge.
Euan Crumley, Big changes help brilliant Femke Bol demolish European record, Athletics Weekly, July 23, 2023.
Everyone brings their A game to the championships and I hope to do the same.
Euan Crumley, Big changes help brilliant Femke Bol demolish European record, Athletics Weekly, July 23, 2023.
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Femke Bol is a Dutch track and field athlete who competes in sprinting, middle-distance running, and hurdling. Up to 2025, she specialized in the 400 metres hurdles, where she is the 2023 and 2025 World Champion, and in the 400 metres, where she is the 2024 World Indoor Champion and the short track world record holder. Since 2026, she specializes in the 800 metres. In the 4 × 400 metres relay, she is the 2023 World Champion and the 2024 World Indoor Champion with the Dutch women's team and the 2024 Olympic Champion with the Dutch mixed team.
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