Femke BOL (NED) recently announced that she was giving up the 400m hurdles to ‘move up’ to the 800m.
The Dutch athlete, who holds the meeting record for the 400m (49.63 seconds set in 2024), will be at the starting line of the 600m to attempt to break the best all-time world performance in the 600m of 1:23.41 currently held by K. HODGKINSON.
Achievements :
- Double World Champion in the 400m hurdles 2025 – 2023
- Double Olympic Bronze Medallist in the 400m hurdles 2024 – 2021
- Double European Champion in the 400m hurdles 2024 – 2022
- European Indoor Champion in the 400m in 2021
- World Indoor Champion in the 400m and 4x400m Relay in 2024
- World Silver Medallist in the 400m Hurdles in 2022
- World silver medallist in the 400m and 4x400m relay 2022
- European champion in the 400m 2022
- Olympic champion with the mixed 4x400m relay team 🇳🇱 Paris 2024
- Olympic silver medallist in the 4x400m relay 🇳🇱 Paris 2024
- World champion in the 4x400m relay 2023
- Double world silver medallist in the mixed 4x400m relay 🇳🇱 2025-2023
- Double European Champion with the 4x400m relay team 🇳🇱 2024 - 2022
- Triple European Indoor Champion with the 4x400m relay team 🇳🇱 2025-2023-2021
- European Indoor Champion with the mixed 4x400m relay team 🇳🇱 2025
Personal bests :
400m hurdles: 50.95 seconds (AR-NR 🇳🇱) 2024
400m: 49.17 seconds 2024
400m Indoor: 49.17 (WR-AR-NR) 2024
