Femke Bol broke her own 400-metre indoor world record at the Netherlands’ national championships on Sunday against her previous record set a year ago.
Femke Bol broke her own 400-metre indoor world record at the Netherlands’ national championships on Sunday, finishing in 49.24 seconds, two-hundredths of a second off the record she set a year ago. The 400-metre hurdles world champion, set the new record less than two weeks before the World Indoor Athletic Championships open in the Scottish city of Glasgow.
After opening her season with 49.69 in Metz at the start of this month, the 23-year-old Bol improved to 49.63 in Lievin and then eased to a heat win in 50.55 in Apeldoorn on Saturday, looking like she still had plenty to give. She proved that was the case on Sunday, cruising through 200m in the lead and then powering over the finish line in 49.24 to dip under 50 seconds indoors for the sixth time of her career so far, the World Athletics said in a report on its website on Sunday.
The excitement can be seen in the eyes of the 23-year-old Dutch sprinter as she remarked in her trackside interview, “It’s a dream come true to run another world record and it’s wonderful to have all these Dutch fans enjoying the most beautiful sport in the world.”
Her earlier record had broken a 40-year-old record of 49.59 set by Jarmila Kratochvilova on March 7, 1982. Lieke Klaver finished second with 50.10 followed by Cathelijn Peeters who was third with 52.08. Subsequently, she moved to the ninth place on the world indoor all-time list. “I never get used to it, especially with all these people cheering on home soil,” Bol said in her trackside interview. “It’s a dream come true to run another world record and it’s wonderful to have all these Dutch fans enjoying the most beautiful sport in the world.”
The world 400m hurdles champion will now head to the World Athletics Indoor Championships in Glasgow in the hunt for her first world indoor title.
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