Femke Bol is one of the great stars of athletics, anything but World Cup gold with a big lead would be a surprise. This is also due to the lack of competition over 400 meters hurdles.
The big leap to the world fame started with a fall. When Femke Bol came down at the 2023 World Cup in Budapest as the final runner of the Dutch 4×400-meter mixed relay shortly before the finish line, lost the staff and was disqualified a few meters before the gold medal, she was already the tragic heroine of the competition. It could have been a traumatic experience, but Bol showed that she is a real champion.
Femke Bol fell tragically at the 2023 World Cup in the mixed relay.
After the deep case, Bol’s great moment came
In the individual race over 400 meters of hurdles, the Dutchman won gold a few days later, but it was even more impressive how she gave her home to her home at the 4×400 meter season. Bol went to the final round as the third, had a ten meter behind 70 meters before the finish – and then lit an incredible turbo that gave athletics one of its most impressive finish. Bol flew to gold and forgot what had happened to her at the start of the World Cup.
Large stars often also need their low dots to get to this status, in the rarest of the right away. Bol had this moment about two years ago and has been one of the faces of the sport since then. Since this event, the 25-year-old has only lost a race over 400 meters of hurdles-but it was the greatest of her career at the 2024 Olympics. There was simply no chance against the world record time of Sydney McLaughin-Levron (50.37 seconds).
McLaughlin-Levron Bol clears the train
Far from the Paris race there have been 18 final wins in series since her individual gold in Budapest. But this is also due to the fact that McLauglin-Levron has left her only competitor the discipline and focuses on the 400 meter “flat”. In Tokyo, the American succeeded in an impressive time of 48.29 seconds in the semifinals, she is the top favorite in the final – like Bol over 400 meters hurdles because McLaughlin -Levron left her the stage.
Femke Bol was without a chance against Sydney McLaughlin-Levron at the 2024 Olympics.
In addition to the victory with the world record by Armand Duplantis in the pole vault, the Bol gold is considered the safest at the World Cup. She has run eight races so far this season and has put eight of the ten best times this season – with one of these times McLaughlin -Levron, who had dared a one -time trip to the hurdle route in the meantime. In the top 10, only Savannah Sunderland (Canada) made eighth place – and it was already excreted in Tokyo.
Hurdle star Bol: “Nothing is mandatory”
But Bol does not want to underestimate the situation. “Nothing is mandatory. If I have to do something, it is to run a very good race. This is all I can do. Now it goes to the semi -finals first, I have to get to durk and then let’s take a look at the final”she said after her lead. The small semi-final hurdle has now taken Bol, in 52.31 seconds she qualified as the fastest for the final run on Friday (2:27 p.m., in the live stream at Sportschau.de).
What happens there is quite expected. Everyone assumes that BOL will get gold with a decent lead, but unlike Duplantis, will not come to the region of the world record. Her personal best time (50.95 seconds) is 0.58 seconds above the record, this year she has “only” managed 51.91 seconds. At least for gold, the unrivaled person likes to run faster.