Dutch sprinter Femke Bol gained the ladies’s 400m in fashion on the 2024 World Indoor Championships in Glasgow, breaking her personal indoor world report of 49.24 by 0.07 seconds.
Bol made it look easy from the beginning, splitting the opening 200m in 23.5 seconds, and held on to win in 49.17 seconds, securing the Netherlands’ first gold medal at these championships. The Dutch went one-two within the girls’s 400m, as Bol’s teammate and coaching associate Lieke Klaver completed second in 50.16, marking the primary time in world indoors historical past that two Dutch athletes reached the rostrum in the identical occasion.
American Alexis Holmes gained bronze in a private greatest of fifty.24 seconds–Group USA’s ninth medal at these World Indoor Championships.
“We’ve educated so exhausting collectively to make this a Dutch one-two,” Bol mentioned in elation. Bol and Klaver’s coach, Laurent Meuwly, tweeted that he was speechless concerning the final result of the race. “Typically, you don’t want phrases,” Meuwly wrote.
Typically you don’t want phrases https://t.co/Dsi5y1MDMg
— Laurent Meuwly (@LaurentMeuwly) March 2, 2024
Klaver additionally praised Meuwly in her post-race interview with Canadian Working. “Our coach treats us as people,” says Klaver. “We each have our personal race plan, and I don’t know what Femke is doing, nor does she know what I’m doing.”
Two of the largest names within the girls’s 400m occasion are shut associates off the observe. They’re roommates right here in Glasgow, and Klaver mentioned in the present day’s end result with Bol and her was a “dream come true.”
The 2 Dutch athletes will be a part of forces on the ultimate day of competitors right here in Glasgow within the girls’s 4x400m relay occasion, the place they would be the seemingly favourites to win gold, as they did on the out of doors world championships final yr in Budapest.
You’ll be able to stream the 2024 World Indoor Championships from March 1 to three from Canada reside on CBCSports and CBC, and the CBC Gem app. Canadian Working will likely be reporting reside from Glasgow, reporting on the motion and that includes interviews with athletes as every thing unfolds. You’ll be able to observe our protection on Instagram or Twitter.
