Icing on the cake for Bol with third European Championship gold on 4×400 relay | Sport

Bol had already delivered a unique performance at this European Championship by being the first woman ever to win gold in the 400 meters and 400 meters hurdles.

The loot is in, three times gold for Femke Bol!

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With her three gold medals at one European Championship, she equals the legendary Fanny Blankers-Koen. He managed to win gold three times at the 1950 European Championship in Brussels. At the time, she won the 100 and 200 meters and the 80 meters hurdles.

In addition to Bol, the team that won gold in the Munich Olympiastadion consisted of Eveline Saalberg, Lieke Klaver and Lisanne de Witte. The Orange Quartet won the final in a big Dutch record and the best European time of this year: 3.20.87. Clover won the medal on her 24th birthday

Saalberg opened well and passed the baton in fourth to Klaver, who made a great lap and steamed up to the lead. De Witte was unable to hold onto the lead as the third runner and dropped to third place, but the gap to Belgium and Great Britain was not very big. Bol closed it quite easily as the final runner. Despite the fatigue of four races in the last four days, she managed to pull off a big acceleration and took the title by a large margin. The Polish team took the silver in 3.21.68 and the favorite British team took the bronze in 3.21.74.