Femke Bol has damaged a 41-year-old world indoor report within the ladies’s 400 meters, clocking a landmark 49.26 seconds whereas operating in entrance of a house crowd on the Dutch Championships in Apeldoorn.
“Once I crossed the road I knew that the report was mine, due to the noise that the gang made,” the hurdles specialist Bol stated after her historic run on Sunday.
The earlier report of 49.59 had been set by Czech Jarmila Kratochvilova on March 7, 1982.
The 22-year-old Bol, who gained a bronze medal on the 2020 Tokyo Olympics within the 400m hurdles, has regarded in high quality kind at first of this yr, having additionally set a world indoor 500m better of 1:05.63 in Boston in her first race of this season.
On Sunday, she acquired off to a robust begin on the Omnisport enviornment and beat Lieke Klaver, who completed second in 50.34.
“It was due to all of the followers right here that I ran this report,” Bol stated. “I’ve by no means seen that many individuals right here.”
