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Femke Bol (born 23 February 2000)[4] is a Dutch track and field athlete who specialises in the 400 metres hurdles and 400 metres. She is the 2020 Tokyo Olympics bronze medallist in the 400m hurdles with the current European record of 52.03 seconds, becoming the third-fastest woman of all time and the first Dutch Olympic medallist at the event.[5] Bol won a silver in the event at the 2022 World Championships. She was the first female athlete to complete the 400 m/400 m hurdles double at a major championships after she won both titles at the 2022 European Championships, where she added third gold for the women's 4 x 400 m relay. A two-time 2022 World Indoor Championship silver medallist and a two-time 2021 European Indoor champion, Bol is also a two-time Diamond League winner.

Femke Bol

Bol with her silver at the 2022 World Championships in Eugene
Personal information
Born	(2000-02-23) 23 February 2000 (age 22) Amersfoort, Netherlands
Height	1.84 m (6 ft 0 in)
Weight	65 kg (143 lb)[1]
Sport
Country	Netherlands
Sport	Track and field
Event(s)	400 m hurdles 400 m
Club	AV Altis (Amersfoort) (Ciko'66, Arnhem 2016–)[2]
Coached by	Laurent Meuwly (2019–)[3] Bram Peters (2016–2019) (assistant 2019–)
Achievements and titles
Olympic finals	2021 Tokyo 400 m hurdles,  Bronze 4x400 m, 6th 4x400 m mixed, 4th
Personal best(s)	400 m hurdles: 52.03 AR (Tokyo 2021) 400 m: 49.44 NR (Munich 2022) Indoors 400 m: 50.30i NR (Apeldoorn 2022)
Medal record Women's athletics Representing the  Netherlands Olympic Games 2020 Tokyo 400 m hurdles World Championships 2022 Eugene 400 m hurdles 2022 Eugene 4x400 m mixed World Indoor Championships 2022 Belgrade 400 m 2022 Belgrade 4×400 m relay Diamond League 2021 400 m hurdles 2022 400 m hurdles European Championships 2022 Munich 400 m 2022 Munich 400 m hurdles 2022 Munich 4×400 m relay European Indoor Championships 2021 Toruń 400 m 2021 Toruń 4×400 m relay European U20 Championships 2019 Borås 400 m hurdles
Updated on 8 September 2022.

Bol was in her specialist hurdles event 2019 European under-20 champion. She holds world best in the 300 metres hurdles, and Dutch records in the 400 m out and indoor. In her breakthrough 2021 season, she set Diamond League and three circuit's meet records, and 11 national records with five more as a member of relay teams.[6][7] A 'double trouble', Bol is the strongest part of Dutch 4 x 400 m relays.[8]

Early life

Femke Bol, born on 23 February 2000 in Amersfoort, trained in judo initially after she broke her arm twice and a doctor recommended the sport for her to learn how to fall.[8] She turned to running around age eight after her brother got into athletics.[9]

As of 2021, she was a student of Communication Sciences at the Wageningen University & Research.[10]

Career

Junior career

Bol focused on the 400 metres sprint in 2015, at age 15, and started winning Dutch competitions in her age categories.[11] She won five national youth titles in the 400 metres (out- and indoor) between 2015 and 2017, and four junior titles in 2018 and 2019 (400 m out-, indoor and hurdles).[4]

At the international competitions, she progressed steadily. Bol did not advance from the heats in the 400 m at the 2015 European Youth Olympic Festival. Two years later, she reached the semi-finals in the event at the 2017 European Under-20 Championships.

In 2019, her last junior year, she won two gold medals at the Dutch U20 championships (400 m indoors and 400 m hurdles), and claimed her first national senior title (indoor 400 m). In June, in the third hurdles race of her life, Bol broke Dutch U20/U23 records and achieved World Championship qualifying standard when winning a meet in Geneva with a time of 55.94 s.[12] In July, she confirmed herself as the continent's best under-20 runner in her, since that year, signature event of the 400 m hurdles, with a gold medal at the European U20 Championships. At the Doha World Championships, the 19-year-old reached the semi-finals with a new personal best of 55.32 s in the heats, becoming the second-fastest under-20 European woman in history.[13][14] She also helped her national women's team place seventh in the 4x400 m relay.[4] Since November 2019, she has been training and living in the Dutch national sports centre Papendal near Arnhem, coached by Switzerland's Laurent Meuwly.[11]

Senior career

2020: First senior successes

In July, Bol broke by almost a second the 400 m hurdles national record of 54.62 s set by Ester Goossens in 1998, racing in Papendal.[15] First, running in the rain, she took almost a second off her 2019 best with a time of 54.47 s, which could not be ratified as only one other athlete competed. Two weeks later, she achieved 53.79 seconds, the fourth-fastest European under-23 time in history.[16] With this mark, she would have placed fourth at the previous year's World Championships, missing a bronze medal by just five hundredths of a second.

During this pandemic season, Bol won all her following races over the barriers: two Diamond League events staged in 2020 as one-off exhibition competitions, and three Continental Tour events. First she ran away from a European-class field in Székesfehérvár, Hungary on 19 August, to repeat this achievement four days later at the Stockholm Bauhaus-galan in winning her first Diamond race. In September, she won in Ostrava (300m hurdles), Bellinzona, and Rome. She reduced her open 400 metres pre-2020 best by 1.85 s down to 51.13 s.[4]

2021: Tokyo Olympic bronze medallist

In what was very successful season, the 21-year-old improved gradually her personal bests, setting 11 national records with five more as a member of relay teams.[7] Bol set also Diamond League record, three circuit's meet records, and five meet records in the World Athletics' Indoor Tour and Continental Tour events.

She started her unbeaten indoor campaign on 30 January, smashing her previous best in the 400 metres by more than 1.5 s to break a Dutch record in a time of 50.96 s at the Vienna Indoor Track & Field meet in Austria. Previous record was set a few minutes earlier by Lieke Klaver, who in turn broke the Ester Goossens' mark which had stood at 51.82 since 1998.[17] Bol then won all her following seven races at the distance in four events, improving in every final. Competing in the World Indoor Tour, she powered to meet records in Metz (50.81) and Toruń (50.66), then clocked 50.64 at the Dutch Indoor Championships, and finally lowered her record to 50.63 seconds when winning during the European Indoor Championships in Toruń, Poland.[18][19] She took there her second gold medal anchoring women's 4×400 m relay to a championship record.[20][6] Her individual mark made her the then-fastest European woman since 2009.[21]

Outdoors Bol started by competing at the World Athletics Relays to set a 400 m national record of 50.56 s on 29 May at the IFAM meeting in Oordegem. She then started improving her own Dutch hurdling record when winning Diamond League meetings, beginning with a time of 53.44 s on 10 June in Florence. At the time it was also European U23 record, breaking a 37-year-old mark.[22] On 19 June, she reverted back to the one-lap flat event during European Team Championships in Romania and bettered her record with a 50.37 performance.[23] On 1 July in Oslo, she lowered her hurdles record in a time of 53.33 s to further take almost a second off with a Diamond League record of 52.37 s on 4 July in Stockholm, where she beat Shamier Little by 0.02 s. This fast race was only the second in history, after the 2017 USATF Championships, in which three women recorded times below 53 seconds as third-placed Anna Ryzhykova set the Ukrainian record of 52.96.[24] Bol, meanwhile, became the fourth fastest woman of all time with the sixth-fastest result ever, missing the European record by just 0.03 s.[25][26] On 6 July, she won the event at the Continental Tour meet in Székesfehérvár with a time of 52.81 s, edging out Little in 52.85 s again.[27] Having won Diamond race in Gateshead, England on 13 July, she extended her unbeaten streak in her specialist event to 6 races in the 2021 season and 12 straight races in total. It was her third consecutive victory over the US rival, but this time Bol dominated, running away by about 10 metres.[28]

At the delayed 2020 Tokyo Olympics in July and August 2021, Bol ran six 400m races with hurdles or flat, including three under 50 seconds relay legs. In what was the speediest women's 400m hurdles race in history, she bettered an individual Dutch record for the 11th time that year to break a European record, finishing third in a time of 52.03 seconds. She lost only to her main rivals in the world, the Americans, winner Sydney McLaughlin (51.46 – world record) and runner-up Dalilah Muhammad (51.58 – inside previous world record).[29][5] Bol broke, however, the 2003 Yuliya Pechonkina's European mark of 52.34 s (world record until 2019) and went under the Olympic record that had stood prior to the final, Melaine Walker's 52.64 s from 2008, becoming the third-fastest woman of all time at the event with the fourth-fastest result ever.[25][30] Her result would have been also a world record about a month earlier, before 27 June, when McLaughlin clocked 51.90 s at the US Olympic trials. It was the first ever Olympic medal for the Netherlands at the event.[31] Before Bol's individual final on 4 August, she helped mixed 4x400m relay team set national record in the final with her 49.74 s split, and later she anchored women's 4x400 relay to consecutive Dutch records in the heat and in the final, clocking splits of 49.14 s and 48.97 s respectively.[32]

After the Games, in August and September, she continued her Diamond League dominance over the barriers, winning Lausanne Athletissima and Zürich Weltklasse final with meet records of 53.05 and 52.80 seconds respectively to claim her first Diamond trophy.[33][34] In Lausanne she finished clear ahead of Shamier Little and Dalilah Muhammad, while in Zürich Bol held off Little again.[35][36] Having skipped USA's Prefontaine Classic in Eugene and ran 400m flat at the Meeting de Paris (50.59, 4th),[4] she remained unbeaten in the Diamond race with six wins out of six races. While still in Switzerland, on 14 September, she ended her breakthrough season with yet another meet record at the Galà dei Castelli in Bellinzona, staying unbeaten in 11 from her 12 hurdles races of 2021.[37] Bol broke the 53 second-barrier four times that year, and was voted European Athletics Female Rising Star.[4][38]

2022: World silver medallist and triple European champion

Femke Bol opened her indoor season returning to Metz (FR), where she bested her previous meeting record in her specialty distance (50.72), and also won her 200 metres heat with a new PB (23.37). Then she returned in turn to Toruń (PL) to beat her local meet record again (50.64). On 27 February, at the Dutch Indoor Championships, she improved her own national record with a 50.30 seconds clocking which was at the time faster than her outdoor best, and putting her 12th on the world indoor all-time list. Only two-time Olympic champion, Shaunae Miller-Uibo of the Bahamas, had run faster indoors since 2007.[39][40] At the World Indoor Championships in Belgrade about three weeks later, Bol won the silver medal, after she fell at the finish line during the semi-finals, in a time of 50.57 s behind Miller-Uibo who ran 50.31.[41] Bol also anchored Dutch women's 4x400 m relay to silver thanks to her 'brilliant'[42] closing surge from fourth into second, with the fastest split of the race of 50.26.

The 22-year-old kickstarted her outdoor season on 31 May at the Golden Spike meeting in Ostrava, where she ran a world best over the 300 m hurdles. She clocked a time of 36.86 s, which was 1.3 s faster than the previous best set by Zuzana Hejnova in 2013.[43] She continued her fine form with Diamond Race wins in Rome, Oslo and Stockholm, breaking a meet record in Oslo before posting 52.27 s in Stockholm to improve her own Diamond League record which she set the previous year.[44][45][46]

At the World Championships in Eugene, Oregon in July, Bol first ran the final leg of the mixed 4x400 m relay. After taking the baton a distant third, she anchored the Dutch team to a silver and a national record thanks to her split of 48.95 s, the second-fastest female split of the entire race.[47] In her individual event, she equalled her season's best (52.27) to finish behind McLaughlin (who lowered her world record to 50.68 s) and well ahead of Muhammad in third.[48] Dutch women's 4x400 m relay squad lost the baton in the heats and was disqualified despite a qualifying position thanks to Bol's leg. After the championships in August, she broke for the first time the 50-second barrier in the 400 m flat and set a national and meet record with a time of 49.75 s at the Silesia Diamond League.[49]

The same month, she completed the gold hat-trick at the European Championships Munich 2022, becoming the first female sprinter to complete a 400 m double at a major championships as she clearly won one-lap events both with and without hurdles. Her time for the open 400 m of 49.44 s was the fastest at Europeans since Stuttgart 1986 and a new national record, while over the barriers Bol set a championship record.[50][51] She rounded off her Munich campaign by producing a 48.52 anchor leg to land the Netherlands gold and a national record in the 4x400 m relay, moving from third to first around the final bend; their result was also the fastest since 1986 at the Europeans.[52] Thus Bol became only the second Dutch athlete after Fanny Blankers-Koen in 1950 to win three gold medals at the European Championships.[53]

On her return to the Diamond Race, Bol set yet another meet record over the barriers in Lausanne, and then concluded her another strong season with a decisive victory at the circuit's Zürich final, successfully defending her Diamond League title.[54] She achieved six marks under 53 seconds that year, staying unbeaten in 11 out of her 12 hurdles races, and was crowned European Athletics women's European Athlete of the Year.[4][55][56]

Achievements

Information from World Athletics profile unless otherwise noted.[4] Last updated on 8 September 2022.

Personal bests

Event	Time (s)	Wind	Venue	Date	Notes
200 metres	23.00	-1.7 m/s	Apeldoorn, Netherlands	25 June 2022
300 metres hurdles	36.86		Ostrava, Czech Republic	31 May 2022	World best
400 metres	49.44		Munich, Germany	17 August 2022	NR
4×400 m relay split	48.52		Munich, Germany	20 August 2022	fourth leg of NR
400 metres indoor	50.30 i		Apeldoorn, Netherlands	27 February 2022	NR
400 metres hurdles	52.03		Tokyo, Japan	4 August 2021	AU23R, European record, 3rd athlete all time[25]

International competitions

Representing the  Netherlands

Year	Competition	Venue	Position	Event	Time	Notes
2015	European Youth Olympic Festival	Tbilisi, Georgia	(heats)	400 m	57.41
2017	European U20 Championships	Grosseto, Italy	(sf)	400 m	54.74
2019	World Relays	Yokohama, Japan	7th	4x400 m relay	3:29.03	(1st in Final B)
	European U20 Championships	Borås, Sweden	1st	400 m hurdles	56.25
	European Team Championships, 1st League	Sandnes, Norway	2nd	400 m hurdles	56,97
	World Championships	Doha, Qatar	22nd (sf)	400 m hurdles	56.37	(NU20R h [n 1])
			7th	4x400 m relay	3:27.89	[n 2]
2021	European Indoor Championships	Toruń, Poland	1st	400 m i	50.63	EL NR
			1st	4x400 m relay i	3:27.15	EL CR NR
	World Relays	Chorzów, Poland	4th	4×400 m relay	3:30.12	[n 3]
			8th	4×400 m mixed	3:18.04	NR [n 4]
	European Team Championships, 1st League	Cluj-Napoca, Romania	1st	400 m	50.37	CR NR
	Olympic Games	Tokyo, Japan	3rd	400 m hurdles	52.03	AR
			6th	4×400 m relay	3:23.74	NR (48.97 split)
			4th	4×400 m mixed	3:10.36	NR (49.74 split)
2022	World Indoor Championships	Belgrade, Serbia	2nd	400 m i	50.57
			2nd	4x400 m relay i	3:28.57	SB (50.26 split)
	World Championships	Eugene, OR, United States	2nd	400 m hurdles	52.27	=SB
			–	4×400 m relay	DQ	(49.38 split)
			2nd	4×400 m mixed	3:09.90	NR (48.95 split)
	European Championships	Munich, Germany	1st	400 m	49.44	EL NR
			1st	400 m hurdles	52.67	CR
			1st	4×400 m relay	3:20.87	EL NR (48.52 split)

Circuit wins and titles

• Diamond League champion 400 m hurdles (2): 2021,[34] 2022[55]

400 metres hurdles wins, other events specified in parenthesis

• 2020 (2): Stockholm Bauhaus-Galan (54.68), Rome Golden Gala (53.90)
• 2021 (6): Rome Golden Gala in Florence (53.44 NR), Oslo Bislett Games (53.33 NR), Stockholm (52.37 DLR NR), Gateshead British Grand Prix (53.24), Lausanne Athletissima (53.05 MR), Zürich Weltklasse (52.80 MR)
• 2022 (6): Rome (53.02), Oslo (52.61 MR), Stockholm (52.27 DLR), Chorzów Kamila Skolimowska Memorial (400 m, 49.75 MR NR), Lausanne (52.95 MR), Zürich (53.03)

• World Continental Tour

400 metres hurdles wins, other events specified in parenthesis

• 2020 [3]: Székesfehérvár Memorial (54.67), Ostrava Golden Spike (300 mH, 38.55 MR), Bellinzona Galà dei Castelli (54.33)
• 2021 (3): Hengelo FBK Games (54.33 MR), Székesfehérvár (52.81 MR), Bellinzona (54.01 MR)
• 2022 (2): Ostrava (300 mH, 36.86 WB), Hengelo (53.94 MR)

• World Indoor Tour

400 metres indoors wins, other events specified in parenthesis

• 2021 (2): Metz Meeting Moselle Athlelor (50.81 MR NR), Toruń Copernicus Cup (50.66 MR NR)
• 2022 (2): Metz (50.72 MR), Toruń (50.64 MR)

National championships

Key:   Senior championships;   Under-18 / U20 championships

Year	Competition	Venue	Position	Event	Time
2015	Dutch U18 Championships	Breda	1st	400 m	56.14
2016	Dutch U18 Indoor Championships	Apeldoorn	1st	400 m i	56.74
	Dutch Indoor Championships	Apeldoorn	6th	400 m i	55.95
	Dutch Championships	Amsterdam	4th	400 m	55.82
	Dutch U18 Championships	Breda	1st	400 m	54.95
2017	Dutch Indoor Championships	Apeldoorn	6th	400 m i	54.47
	Dutch U20/U18 Indoor Championships, U18 events	Apeldoorn	1st	400 m i	55.48
	Dutch U20/U18 Championships, U18 events	Vught	1st	400 m	54.39
2018	Dutch U20 Indoor Championships	Apeldoorn	1st	400 m i	54.93
	Dutch Indoor Championships	Apeldoorn	5th	400 m i	54.58
	Dutch U20 Championships	Emmeloord	1st	400 m	54.91
	Dutch Championships	Utrecht	6th	400 m	54.40
2019	Dutch U20 Indoor Championships	Apeldoorn	1st	400 m i	54.34
	Dutch Indoor Championships	Apeldoorn	1st	400 m i	53.24 NU20R
	Dutch U20 Championships	Alphen aan den Rijn	1st	400 m hurdles	57.87
			2nd	200 m	23.79
	Dutch Championships	The Hague	7th	200 m	24.41
2020	Dutch Indoor Championships	Apeldoorn	2nd	400 m i	52.78
	Dutch Championships	Utrecht	3rd	200 m	23.40
2021	Dutch Indoor Championships	Apeldoorn	1st	400 m i	50.64
	Dutch Championships	Breda	4th	200 m	23.16
2022	Dutch Indoor Championships	Apeldoorn	1st	400 m i	50.30 NR
	Dutch Championships	Apeldoorn	2nd	200 m	23.05 (PB h)

Progression

Key:   Lifetime best

Year	200 m	Notes	400 m	Notes	400 m indoor	Notes	400 m hurdles	Notes
2015	–		56.14		–		–	(age 15)
2016	25.56		54.95		55.95 i		–
2017	25.18		54.39		54.47 i		–
2018	25.09		54.33		54.58 i		–
2019	23.79		52.98	NU20R	53.24 i	NU20R	55.32	NU20R
2020	23.40		51.13		52.47 i		53.79	NR
2021	23.16		50.37	NR	50.63 i	NR	52.03	EU23R AR
2022	23.00		49.44	NR	50.30 i	NR	52.27

Dutch under-20 records:[57]

Recognition

2021

• European Athletics Female Rising Star

2022

• European Athletics women's European Athlete of the Year

Notes

References

External links

• Femke Bol at World Athletics
• Femke Bol at Diamond League
• Femke Bol at Olympics.com
• Femke Bol at Olympedia

Records
Preceded by Yuliya Pechonkina	Women's 400 m hurdles European record holder 4 August 2021 – present	Succeeded by Incumbent
Awards and achievements
Preceded by Yaroslava Mahuchikh	Women's European Rising Star of the Year 2021	Succeeded by Elina Tzengko
Preceded by Sifan Hassan	Women's European Athlete of the Year 2022	Succeeded by Incumbent

На других языках

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[de] Femke Bol

Femke Bol (* 23. Februar 2000 in Amersfoort) ist eine niederländische Sprinterin und Hürdenläuferin, die sich auf die 400-Meter-Distanz spezialisiert hat. Bei den Olympischen Spielen 2021 in Tokio gewann sie die Bronze-Medaille über die 400-Meter-Hürden und lief dabei einen Europarekord. Bei den Weltmeisterschaften im darauf folgenden Jahr in Eugene gewann sie die Silber-Medaille über diese Strecke. Nach Siegen über die 400-Meter, die 400-Meter-Hürden und mit der 4-mal-400-Meter-Staffel, war sie mit drei Gold-Medaillen die erfolgreichste Leichtathletin bei den Europameisterschaften 2022 in München.

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- [en] Femke Bol

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[es] Femke Bol

Femke Bol (Amersfoort, 23 de febrero de 2000) es una deportista neerlandesa que compite en atletismo, especialista en las carreras de velocidad y de vallas.[1]

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[fr] Femke Bol

Femke Bol (née le 23 février 2000 à Amersfoort) est une athlète néerlandaise, spécialiste du 400 m et du 400 mètres haies. Sur cette distance, aux Jeux olympiques de Tokyo en 2021, elle remporte la médaille de bronze, devancée par Sydney MacLaughlin et Dalilah Muhammad. Son temps lors de cette course, 52 s 03, fait d'elle la troisième femme la plus rapide de l’histoire de cette discipline. C’est aussi le nouveau record d'Europe.

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[it] Femke Bol

Femke Bol (Amersfoort, 23 febbraio 2000) è un'ostacolista e velocista olandese, medaglia di bronzo nei 400 metri ostacoli ai Giochi olimpici di Tokyo 2020 e primatista europea della specialità.

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[ru] Бол, Фемке

Фемке Бол (нидерл. Femke Bol; род. 23 февраля 2000, Амерсфорт, Утрехт) — нидерландская легкоатлетка, специализирующаяся в гладком и барьерном беге на 400 метров.

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