Femke Bol

Womens 400 metres Hurdles Final

Mixed 4 x 400 metres Relay Final

Womens 400 metres Hurdles Final at FBK Games

Womens 400 metres Hurdles Final at Meeting International Mohammed VI d'Athlétisme de Rabat

Mixed 4 x 400 metres Relay Final

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2000 (25 years old)
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Amersfoort, Netherlands

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Middle Distance Runner

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1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)

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Femke Bol (pronounced ⓘ; born 23 February 2000) is a Dutch track and field athlete who competes in hurdling and sprinting. She specialises in the 400 metres hurdles, where she is the 2023 World Champion, and in the 400 metres, where she is the 2024 World Indoor Champion and the short track world record holder. 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.

Bol holds the world record in the 400 metres short track with a time of 49.17 seconds set on 2 March 2024; the European record in the 400 metres hurdles with a time of 50.95 seconds set on 14 July 2024, making her the second-fastest woman of all time in the event; the European record in the mixed 4 × 400 metres relay with a time of 3:07.43 minutes set on 3 August 2024; and four Dutch records in individual events and relays. She also has world-best performances in the 300 metres hurdles and 500 metres short track.

She won a gold medal at the 2024 Summer Olympics, two gold medals at the 2023 World Championships and two gold medals at the 2024 World Indoor Championships, was champion in the 2021, 2022, and 2023 Diamond League, and won a bronze medal at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. She is also a four-time silver medalist at the world championships (outdoor and indoor), a ten-time medalist (nine gold) at the European championships (outdoor and indoor), and a ten-time medalist (five gold) at the Dutch championships (outdoor and indoor).

Bol's highest World Athletics Rankings were No. 1 in the 400 metres hurdles in 2021–2024, No. 3 in the 400 metres in 2023 and 2024, and No. 2 of women overall in 2023 and 2024. She was European Athletics Rising Star of the Year in 2021 and European Athlete of the Year in 2022 and 2023.

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