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BUDAPEST (Reuters) -The United States won a dramatic World Championship gold with a world record in the mixed 4x400 metres relay on Saturday as Femke Bol fell five metres from the line just as it ...
Netherlands' Femke Bol and US' Kaylyn Brown compete in the mixed 4x400m relay final. ... Relay coach Mike Marsh had so many options to choose from that he didn’t even bother to use the world’s ...
Femke Bol (pronounced [ˈfɛmkə ˈbɔl] ⓘ; 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.
Dutch track star Femke Bol continued her golden year on Saturday, ... Equally adept over the hurdles and on the flat, she is the current world champion in both the 400m hurdles and 4x400m relay.
With Femke Bol, who had taken the World Indoor Record in the 400 metres earlier in the season, as their anchor leg, Netherlands came in as a favorite. Defending champion Poland had a rougher time getting into the final, their anchor leg Patrycja Wyciszkiewicz-Zawadzka finding herself on the deck at the beginning of her leg in a multi-athlete collision on the exchange.
The women's 4 × 400 metres relay was a two-round track event of the 2023 World Athletics Championships held at the National Athletics Centre in Budapest. Seventeen national relay teams participated in the two heats that took place on 26 August 2023. Nine teams qualified for the final, the last track race of the championships, on 27 August 2023.
Femke Bol of the Netherlands is the world and European record holder with a time of 49.17 s set in 2024. [5] Bol is also the 2021 and 2023 champion in this event. [ 3 ] [ 6 ] In January 2025, Bol announced that she would not seek to defend her European titles, solely focusing on the relays instead. [ 7 ]
A bronze from Mu and a gold by the men's 4x400 relay team pushed the Americans final total to 29 medals in Budapest, including 12 gold. ... Femke Bol made a big comeback in the final few meters to ...