Femke Bol

Femke Bol (born 23 February 2000)[5] 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 400 m 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.[6] Bol is also the 2022 World Championships silver medallist and 2022 European champion. In the 400 m, she is the 2022 World Indoor silver medallist, the 2022 European champion, a two-time European Indoor champion from 2021 and 2023, and the world indoor record holder with a time of 49.26 seconds set on 19 February 2023 in Apeldoorn, beating the longest-standing at the time (and contested[7]) track world record.[8][9] At all these events except the Tokyo Games, she also won medals in the 4 × 400 m relays, either women's or mixed.

Femke Bol
Bol with her silver at the 2022 World Athletics Championships in Eugene
Personal information
Born (2000-02-23) 23 February 2000
Amersfoort, Netherlands
Height1.84 m (6 ft 0 in)
Weight65 kg (143 lb)[1]
Life partner(s)Ben Broeders[2]
Sport
CountryNetherlands
SportTrack and field
Event(s)
ClubAV Altis[3]
Coached by
  • Laurent Meuwly (2019–)[4]
  • Bram Peters (2016–2019) (assistant 2019–)
  • Werner Andrea (–2016)
Achievements and titles
World finals
  • 2019 Doha – at age 19
  • 400 m hurdles, 22nd (sf)
  • 4×400 m relay, 7th
  • 2022 Eugene
  • 400 m hurdles,  Silver
  • 4×400 m mixed,  Silver
Olympic finals
  • 2021 Tokyo
  • 400 m hurdles,  Bronze
  • 4×400 m, 6th
  • 4×400 m mixed, 4th
Personal best(s)
Medal record
Women's athletics
Representing the  Netherlands
Olympic Games
Bronze medal – third place2020 Tokyo400 m hurdles
World Championships
Silver medal – second place2022 Eugene400 m hurdles
Silver medal – second place2022 Eugene4×400 m mixed
World Indoor Championships
Silver medal – second place2022 Belgrade400 m
Silver medal – second place2022 Belgrade4×400 m relay
Diamond League
First place2021400 m hurdles
First place2022400 m hurdles
European Championships
Gold medal – first place2022 Munich400 m
Gold medal – first place2022 Munich400 m hurdles
Gold medal – first place2022 Munich4×400 m relay
European Indoor Championships
Gold medal – first place2021 Toruń400 m
Gold medal – first place2021 Toruń4×400 m relay
Gold medal – first place2023 Istanbul400 m
Gold medal – first place2023 Istanbul4×400 m relay
European U20 Championships
Gold medal – first place2019 Borås400 m hurdles
Updated on 5 March 2023.

Bol 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 × 400 m relay.

She was in her specialist hurdles event 2019 European under-20 champion. She holds world bests in the 300 m hurdles and indoor 500 m (the mark is also an outright best), and Dutch records in the indoor 200 m and 400 m (out and indoor). In her breakthrough 2021 season, Bol set a Diamond League and three circuit's meet records, and 11 national records with five more as a member of relay teams.[10][11] A 'double trouble', she is the strongest part of Dutch 4 × 400 m relays.[12] She is a two-time Diamond League 400 m hurdles champion and also a four-time national champion.

Early life and background

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.[12] But around age eight she became more interested in cross country running, which her four-year older brother Jeroen started practising. She followed in his footsteps, joining him when their father was taking him to the woods near Amersfoort.[13][14] In 2014, Bol transferred from AV Triathlon to AV Altis club, where coach Werner Andrea discovered her talent for longer sprints.[14]

She attended Farel College and, as of 2021, was a student of Communication Sciences at the Wageningen University.[14][15]

Youth and junior career

Bol focused on the 400 metres distance in 2015, at age 15, and started winning Dutch age-group competitions.[16] She won five national youth titles in the 400 m (out- and indoor) between 2015 and 2017, and four junior titles in 2018 and 2019 (400 m out-, indoor and hurdles).[5] In 2016, she started training in Arnhem, at Ciko'66 club, where her parents drove her almost daily.[16]

19-year-old Bol at the 2019 World Athletics Championships in Doha.

At the international competitions, she progressed steadily. Competing against athletes up to two years her senior, Bol did not advance from the 400 m heats at the 2015 European Youth Olympic Festival in Tbilisi, Georgia. Two years later, the 17-year-old participated in the European Under-20 Championships held in Grosseto, Italy and reached the semi-finals of the event.[5]

In 2019, her last junior year, she claimed her first national senior title (indoor 400 m).[5] 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.[17][18] In July, she confirmed herself as the continent's best U20 runner in her, since that year, signature event of the 400 m hurdles, with the gold medal at the European U20 Championships in Borås, Sweden. At the Doha World Championships in Qatar in October, the 19-year-old reached the semi-finals with a new personal best of 55.32 s in the heats, becoming the second-fastest European U20 woman in history.[19][20][note 1] She also helped her national women's team place seventh in the 4 × 400 m relay.[5] Since November 2019, she has been training at the Dutch Olympic Training Centre Papendal near Arnhem, coached by Switzerland's Laurent Meuwly.[16]

Senior career
Femke Bol set her first senior Dutch record on 18 July 2020 in Papendal.

2020: First senior Dutch record & first senior successes

Bol was forced to train on gravel paths in the woods and on grass fields when COVID-19 quarantine measures were first enacted in March. Despite this, in July she broke by almost a second the national 400 m hurdles record of 54.62 s set by Ester Goossens in 1998, racing in Papendal.[21] 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.[22] 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, the Dutchwoman 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 (300 m hurdles), Bellinzona, and Rome. She reduced her open 400 metres pre-2020 best by 1.85 s down to 51.13 s.[5]

2021: Tokyo Olympic bronze medallist

In what was very successful season, Bol improved gradually her personal bests, setting 11 national records with five more as a member of relay teams.[11] Bol set also Diamond League record, three circuit's meet records, and five meet records at 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 s since 1998.[23] 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 s at the Dutch Indoor Championships, and finally lowered her record to 50.63 seconds when winning during the European Indoor Championships in Toruń, Poland.[24][25] She took there her second gold medal anchoring women's 4 × 400 m relay to a championship record.[26][10] Her individual mark made her the fastest European woman since 2009.[27]

Bol raced 33 times in 2021 (including rounds), improving gradually and setting 11 Dutch and eight meet records.

Outdoors the 21-year-old 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.[28] 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.[29] 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 a Ukrainian record of 52.96.[30] 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.[31][32] 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.[33] Having won Diamond race in Gateshead, England on 13 July, she extended her unbeaten streak in her specialist event to 12 races in total. It was her third consecutive victory over the US rival, but this time Bol dominated, running away by about 10 metres.[34]

Femke Bol hurdles in the semi-final at the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games during heavy rain.

At the delayed 2020 Tokyo Olympics in July and August 2021, Bol ran six 400 m races with hurdles or flat, including three under 50 seconds relay legs. In what was the speediest women's 400 m hurdles race in history, she bettered an individual Dutch record for the 11th time that year to break the 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).[35][6] 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.[31][36] 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.[37] Before Bol's individual final on 4 August, she helped mixed 4 × 400 m relay team set national record in the final with her 49.74 s split, and later she anchored women's 4 × 400 m relay to consecutive Dutch records in the heat and in the final, clocking splits of 49.14 s and 48.97 s respectively.[38]

After the Games, in August and September, she continued her Diamond League dominance over the barriers, winning in Lausanne and the Zürich final with meet records of 53.05 and 52.80 seconds respectively to claim her first Diamond trophy.[39][40] At the former, she finished clear ahead of Shamier Little and Dalilah Muhammad, while in Zürich Bol held off Little again.[41][42] Having skipped USA's event in Eugene and ran 400 m flat in Paris (50.59, 4th),[5] 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 in Bellinzona, staying unbeaten in 11 from her 12 hurdles races of 2021.[43] The Dutchwoman broke the 53-second barrier four times that season, posted an individual win-loss 16–4, and was voted European Female Rising Star of the Year.[5][44]

2022: World indoor & outdoor silver medallist and triple European champion
Bol (2nd from the left) at the 2022 World Indoors held in Belgrade.

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 Indoors, 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.[45][46] 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.[47] Bol also anchored Dutch women's 4 × 400 m relay to silver thanks to her 'brilliant'[48] closing surge from fourth into second, with the fastest split of the race of 50.26 s.

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.[49] 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.[50][51][52]

After her Olympic bronze Bol went one better in her specialist event at the 2022 World Championships in Eugene.

At the World Championships in Eugene, Oregon in July, Bol first ran the final leg of the mixed 4 × 400 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.[53] 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.[54] Dutch women's 4 × 400 m 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.[55]

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 a Europeans since Stuttgart 1986 and a new national record, while over the barriers Bol set a championship record.[56][57] She rounded off her Munich campaign by producing a 48.52 anchor leg to land the Netherlands gold and a national record in the 4 × 400 m relay, moving from third to first around the final bend; their result was also the fastest at a Europeans since 1986.[58] Thus Bol became only the second Dutch athlete after Fanny Blankers-Koen in 1950 to win three gold medals at the event.[59]

On her return to the Diamond Race, Bol set yet another meet record over the barriers in Lausanne, and then concluded her third strong season with a decisive victory at the Zürich final, successfully defending her Diamond League title.[60] She achieved six marks under 53 seconds that year, staying unbeaten in 11 out of her 12 hurdles races, posted an individual win-loss 13–4, and was crowned European Female Athlete of the Year.[5][61][62]

2023–present: World indoor 400 m record
On 19 February 2023, Femke Bol set a world indoor 400 m record, breaking the longest-standing track world record.

"It’s still an extra, a bonus number, since it was never on my list of goals. It’s just a result of hard work for the summer."

– Bol on her 400 m world indoor record.[63]

Bol caps her sparkling 2023 indoor campaign with a 49.85 s run at Istanbul 2023. She broke the 50-second barrier a record three times that year.

Bol got her 2023 campaign off to strong start on 4 February as she added next record to her growing CV. She smashed by nearly 0.7 s the world indoor best in the less frequently run distance of 500 metres with 1:05.63, faster also than the outdoor record (65.9), at the New Balance Indoor Grand Prix in Boston, USA.[64] Competing again in Metz (FR), she set new Dutch indoor records in both the 200 m and 400 m. Bol clocked an outright lifetime best in the former (22.87), and broke the 50-second barrier in the latter with 49.96 s as the fourth woman in history and the first woman since 2004 to become the fourth-fastest woman of all time indoors.[65] She next triumphed with a meet record in Liévin (50.20).[66] On 19 February at the Dutch Indoors in Apeldoorn, just four days before her 23rd birthday, she sliced 0.7 s off her best with a landmark 49.26 seconds, obliterating the longest-standing world record in a track race. This was at the time the 49.59 s indoor 400 m record, set by Jarmila Kratochvílová back in 1982.[8][9] After setting an outright lifetime best, Bol said, "this was almost a perfect race".[7] She capped her record-breaking indoor campaign by defending her European title at Istanbul 2023 with the third mark under 50 s that season (49.85), a global record. She added her seventh European title anchoring the Netherlands to a decisive relay victory with a new Dutch and championship record, making them the third-fastest national team in history.[67][68]

Training for 2023 season saw potentially critical changes to Bol's hurdling technique. She was preparing to do 14 strides between the hurdles for as long as is feasible and to alter with her legs between left and right as her chief rival, McLaughlin-Levrone, already ran with 14 strides until hurdle seven. Tall Bol had run with 15 steps between hurdles before.[69]

Achievements

Information from World Athletics profile unless otherwise noted.[5] Last updated on 5 March 2023.

Personal bests
Event Time (m:)s Venue Date Notes
200 metres 23.00 Apeldoorn, Netherlands 25 June 2022 (wind: –1.7 m/s)
200 metres indoor 22.87 Metz, France 11 February 2023 NR
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 anchor leg of NR
400 metres indoor 49.26 i Apeldoorn, Netherlands 19 February 2023 World record
400 metres hurdles 52.03 Tokyo, Japan 4 August 2021 AU23R European record, 3rd athlete all time[31]
500 metres indoor 1:05.63 i Boston, MA, United States 4 February 2023 World best
4 × 400 m relay 3:20.87 Munich, Germany 20 August 2022 NR
4 × 400 m relay indoor 3:25.66 Istanbul, Turkey 5 March 2023 NR, 3rd national team all time
4 × 400 m relay mixed 3:09.90 Eugene, OR, United States 15 July 2022 NR

International competitions
Bol (L) finishes behind Fiordaliza Cofil in the 4 × 400 m mixed relay at the 2022 World Championships in Eugene.
Bol with compatriot Lieke Klaver, Dutch 1–2 in the 400 m at the 2023 European Indoor Championships in Istanbul.
Representing the  Netherlands
YearCompetitionVenuePositionEventTimeNotes
2015 European Youth Olympic Festival Tbilisi, Georgia 11th (h) 400 m 57.41
2017 European U20 Championships Grosseto, Italy 12th (sf) 400 m 54.74
2019 World Relays Yokohama, Japan 7th 4 × 400 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 (h NU20R[note 1])
7th 4 × 400 m relay 3:27.89 [note 2]
2021 European Indoor Championships Toruń, Poland 1st 400 m i 50.63 EL NR
1st 4 × 400 m relay i 3:27.15 EL CR NR
World Relays Chorzów, Poland 4th 4 × 400 m relay 3:30.12 [note 3]
8th 4 × 400 m mixed 3:18.04 NR [note 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 4 × 400 m relay i 3:28.57 SB (50.26 i 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)
2023 European Indoor Championships Istanbul, Turkey 1st 400 m i 49.85
1st 4 × 400 m relay i 3:25.66 CR NR (49.58 i split)

Circuit wins and titles
400 metres hurdles wins, other events specified in parenthesis
400 metres hurdles wins, other events specified in parenthesis
400 metres indoor wins, other events specified in parenthesis

National championships

Key:   Senior championships;   Under-18 / U20 championships

YearCompetitionVenuePositionEventTime
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)
2023 Dutch Indoor Championships Apeldoorn 1st 400 m i 49.26 WR

Progression

Key:   Lifetime best

19-year-old Femke in starting blocks at the 2019 European Team Championships in Sandnes, Norway.
Year200 mNotes200 m
indoor		Notes400 mNotes400 m
indoor		Notes400 m
hurdles		Notes
2015——56.14——(age 15)
201625.56—54.9555.95 i—
201725.1825.15 i54.3954.47 i—
201825.09—54.3354.58 i—
201923.79—52.98NU20R53.24 iNU20R55.32NU20R
202023.40—51.1352.47 i53.79NR
202123.1623.52 i50.37NR50.63 iNR52.03EU23R AR
202223.0023.37 i49.44NR50.30 iNR52.27
202322.87 iNR49.26 iWR

Dutch athletics age-group outdoor records,[70] indoor records.[71]

Recognition
2021
2022

Notes
  1. In the heats Bol set new Dutch U20/U23 records with a time of 55.32 seconds, which was faster than the ratified European U20 record. However Bol's mark was not ratified as a continent's U20 record due to no doping control.
  2. Dutch team ran 3:27.40 in the heats.
  3. Dutch team ran 3:28.40 in the heats.
  4. Time from the heats; Bol was replaced in the final in which Dutch team clocked 3:21.02.

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